STAR-CCM+

就是顺应将来的CFD的发展趋势应运而生的。CD-adapco邀请全球顶级CFD专家一起从白板开始，创建一种迎接未来CFD挑战的计算工具，设计这个工具的主旨思想是创建一种全球最高级的、鲁棒性好的、易用的解算器、重新定义了使用CFD的方法。对于CFD领域，不仅仅是一个新的解算器，STAR-CCM+是一种全新的方法。

• 网格嵌入程序
• 解算器和数值算法
• 并行计算
• 交互式后处理计算

CD-adapco公司开发的新一代通用热流体分析软件

「STAR-CCM+」加入了CD-adapco特有的多面体网格技术、操作界面简单易用，是热流体分析工程师强有力的工具。多面体网格（polyhedral）生成方法不仅更快捷、简单，而且相对于四面体网格(Tetrahedral)，耗费更少的内存便能够得到更高精度的分析结果。

「STAR-CCM+ v2」界面非常友好，对表面准备，如包面（surface wrapper）、表面重构(surface re-mesh)及体网格生成（多面体-polyhedral、四面体-tetrahedral、六面体核心网格-trim）等功能进行了拓展，且在并行计算(HPC)上取得巨大改进；不仅求解器可以并行计算，对前后处理也能通过并行来实现，大大提供了分析效率。在计算速度方面，比上一版本v1成功实现了在64位LINUX机器上计算速度提高20%的目标。在计算过程中可实时监控分析结果（如矢量、标量和结果统计图表等）的功能，同时实现了工程问题后处理数据方面的高度实用性、流体分析的高性能化、解析对象的复杂化、用户水平范围的扩大化。为了满足新一代CFD模拟要求，此求解器采用了连续介质力学（CCM）分析新方法，不仅可进行流体分析，还可进行结构等其它物理场的分析。目前 STAR-CCM+正在应用于多达2亿网格的超大型计算问题上，如方程式赛车外流场空气动力分析等项目。

特性：

简单易用的操作界面
新设计的界面简单易用、分析设定不易出错。从网格生成到矢量、标量及图表等后处理结果的生成都可以用鼠标操作来完成。

搭载了CD-adapco独创的最新网格生成技术
利用独创的最新网格生成技术，在STAR-CCM+强大的前处理界面上，可完成复杂形状数据输入、表面准备－包面（保持形状、简化结构、回避接触、检查泄露等功能）、表面网格重构、自动体网格生成（包括多面体网格、六面体核心网格、四面体网格）等生成网格所需的一系列作业。

采用最新的数值算法
STAR-CCM+支持任意形状的多面体网格，解算器采用连续介质力学（CCM）算法，除进行流体分析外，加入结构等其它物理场的分析功能。在流体分析模方面，全面引入CD-adapco公司已有的非常成熟的通用热流体分析软件STAR-CD中物理模型。利用CD-adapco倡导的多面体网格，可以实现计算性能（相对四面体网格）约3～10倍的提高。

高度实用性工程工具
在STAR-CCM+中采用了服务用户的系统，能够实时监控计算中的结果数据（矢量、标量及统计结果图表），工程师还可将任意分析参数（流量、力、温度等）作为计算收敛条件来使用。

解算器及前后处理器的完全并行化
STAR-CCM+紧扣10亿左右网格的大规模分析为目标，不仅在解算器方面，而且在前后处理器方面也实现了并行化。用户只需在界面上指定机器名和CPU数，就可以全面实现并行处理。

STAR-CCM+ is new CFD software that has been developed by CD-adapco
using state-of-the-art modeling and software technology. The result
is a code that above all offers outstanding ease-of-use. Utilizing
the latest numerical algorithms including an advanced pre-conditioned
coupled and segregated solver and state-of-the-art software coding,
STAR-CCM+ brings unheard levels of accuracy, reliability and flexibility
to the CFD engineer.
.Tree-structured, step-by-step, graphical user interface
.General polyhedral cell formulation: less memory and faster solution
.Guaranteed results from robust, crash-free, STAR-CCM+ solver
.Transparent scalable parallel operation
.Legacy mesh compatibility: STAR-CD, ICEM, GridGen, Gambit
.Visualization and dynamic steering during analysis

CD-adapco STAR-CCM+Box Includes Polyhedral Mesher

LONDON, England, March 17, 2005 - CD-adapco, the leading provider of full-spectrum and CAD-embedded Computational Fluid Dynamics, has announced the release of the world's first fully integrated process for polyhedral CFD. The first official release of the STAR-CCM+ Box Set combines CD-adapco's technology leading STAR-CCM+ solver with STAR-Design, which includes the world's first commercially available polyhedral mesher.

STAR-Design, CD-adapco's fully functional parametric solid modeler, allows polyhedral meshes to be created at the click of a button. Based on the same Parasolid kernel that powers many leading CAD packages, STAR-Design is both powerful and easily accessible. Using an intuitive interface, even a casual user can easily build, mesh and run an industrial strength CFD simulation. Using STAR-Design, polyhedral meshes can be easily generated from the created (or imported) CAD geometry at the click of a button.

Extensive validation has demonstrated that polyhedral meshes offer near hexahedral accuracy with all of the automatic meshing benefits of tetrahedra. Professor Milovan Peric, CD-adapco's Director of Technology, explains, “Recent tests have shown that, for equivalent or better accuracy, polyhedral meshes converge up to ten times faster than tetrahedra, typically delivering a speedup of 400 - 500%”, he says, "Polyhedral CFD delivers more for less: more accurate solutions, using fewer cells and ultimately greatly reduced human and computing resources"

Dr Dennis Nagy, CD-adapco's Vice President of Business Development, acknowledges that polyhedral meshing is the first payoff of CD-adapco's investment in solver technology. "While other CFD vendors are content to simply build upon their existing aging software architectures with STAR-CCM+, we decided to go back to the drawing-board and build our solutions upon the most advanced technology currently available", says Dr Nagy. “The arrival of polyhedral meshing represents a watershed for industrial CFD".

"I am confident that the arrival of our polyhedral meshing technology spells the end for tetrahedra as a useful tool for CFD", says CD-adapco President and founder Steve MacDonald. "Tetrahedra - as well as the CFD codes which continue to rely on them - are doomed to become a thing of the past"

The STAR-CCM+ Virtual Box Set is available to existing CD-adapco customers from https://www2.cd-adapco.com/

If you are interested in joining the polyhedral revolution but are not currently a CD-adapco customer, you can download a trial version from www.cd-adapco.com/products/CCMdemo.htm

About CD-adapco

CD-adapco is a global enterprise providing advanced computationally based engineering solutions for simulating fluid flow and heat transfer. This includes Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software CAD-integrated CFD options, training and CFD/FEA engineering and consulting services. Its main offices are in New York, London and Yokohama with subsidiary offices across the world.