Citation
(2007), "STAR-CD 4.02: flow, thermal and stress simulation in a single solver", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 79 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2007.12779cad.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
STAR-CD 4.02: flow, thermal and stress simulation in a single solver
STAR-CD 4.02: flow, thermal and stress simulation in a single solver
The recent release of STAR-CD V4.02, is the second major release of STAR- CD V4, CD-adapco's flagship simulation tool for Computational Continuum Mechanics and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Since, its first release 20 years ago, STAR-CD has established a reputation for versatility and in its ability to tackle problems involving multiphysics and complex geometries. In the latest release, STAR-CD V4.02 enhances this reputation further with an improved meshing process and the ability to simulate physics till now beyond the reach of mainstream CFD technology.
STAR-CD V4.02 provides direct access to the latest automatic surface cleaning and mesh generation technology from within a single integrated environment. This technology, pioneered in sister code STAR-CCMþ is said to have proved popular with users and, in many cases, reduced the time-to-mesh from days to hours.
“Our polyhedral mesh technology is now more powerful than ever before” says Product Manager Dr Riaz Sanatian. “The combination of high quality automatic polyhedral mesh generation and efficient solver technology will provide you with improved ease-of- use, faster turnaround times and increased solution accuracy, for all classes of flow, in all application areas.”
STAR-CD V4.02 also claims to push back the boundaries of CFD by introducing a number of key multi- physics capabilities that are said to be available for the first time in a general purpose CFD code. Much more than just a CFD code, CD-adapco's solver technology allows users to simulate flow, thermal and stress problems in a single solver, using a single computational mesh, without the hassle of solution mapping or data transfer.
“These capabilities will rapidly mature and open the door to routine analysis of a range of applications, such as strongly- coupled fluid/solid interaction problems and mold-filling, that were either very difficult or impossible to solve before” says Dr Sanatian.
STAR-CD V4.02 is available on request from CD-adapco's User Services site or your local CD-adapco office.