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Available 3D Operations:
Sweep, Loft, Extrude, Revolve, Fillet, Chamfer, Pattern, Booleans, Flow Domain Extraction
Design parameters:
Allows parameters to be modified without having to edit the 3D model
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Meshing Models
Surface Wrapper (Not always required)
Fluid volume extraction
Complex assembly simplification
Provide closed surface on poor quality CAD
Surface Remesher (Required)
To improve quality of surface triangulation
Generalized Cylinder
Meshes cylindrical shapes with prismatic cells
Effective meshing of pipelines, manifolds, etc.
Trimmer
More efficient at filling large volumes
Uses less memory per cell
Polyhedral Mesher
Well suited to complex, multi-region geometries
Converges quickly
Prism Layer Mesher
Used to generate prisms next to walls
Extruder
Used to offset boundaries
Useful for cell count/meshing time reduction
Volumetric Controls
Right click on Volumetric Controls > New
+ Choose shape or any part for control
+ Provide custom size for polyhedral & surface meshers
+ Isotropic and anisotropic refinement of trim meshes
+ Custom settings for prism layers
Thin Mesher
Create prisms in thin objects
Reduces cell count for thin objects
Monitoring Convergence
Residuals
- Should decrease by 2-3 orders of magnitude
Engineering Values
- Area or Mass averaged
- Volume Averaged
- Maximums or Minimums
- Flow Rates
- Forces/Moments or coefficients
Flowfield
- Create Scalar or Vector scenes to provide visual
confirmation of simulation setup
Boundary conditions
- location, values, validity
Initial conditions
Correct physics models applied
Mesh quality and density
Solver controls
- under relaxation, courant number
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Modeling Motion
In tools right click on motions > New
+ User Specified motion
- Rotation
- Rotation & Translation
- Morphing
- Harmonic Balance Flutter
+ Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction (DFBI)
- Rotation & Translation
- Embedded Rotation
- Morphing
- Superposed rotation
+ Solid Displacement
Modeling
Space
- 2D, Axisymmetric, 3D, Shell 3D
Time
- Steady-state, Unsteady Implicit , Unsteady Explicit,
Harmonic Balance
Material
- Gas, Liquid or Solid single components
- Gas, Liquid or Solid multi-components
- Immiscible phases, VOF & Eulerian Multiphase
Flow
- Coupled Flow and Coupled Energy: for compressible flows,
shock waves, natural convection, large body sources,
energy sources: for subsonic up to hypersonic flows
Multiphase models:
- Volume of Fluid VOF
- To model immiscible mixtures with a sharp free surface
between phases
- Supplementary models: Boiling, cavitation, surface evaporation
& condensation, melting-solidification, wave generation
- Eulerian Multiphase
- To model mixtures of discrete phases, such as powders,
bubbly flows etc
- Supplementary models: Interphase drag laws for different flow
types, solid pressure force, S-Gamma population balance,
boiling, gas dilution, permeable boundaries
- Lagrangian Multi-phase
- To study the behavior of droplets and solid particles
e.g. sprays
- Injectors are used to define the entrance of the droplets
into the domain
- Supplementary models: Drag force, turbulent dispersion,
erosion, wall interaction, droplet atomization and breakup,
evaporation, Coulomb forces
- Discrete Element Model (DEM)
- Used to study the behavior of discrete particles and how they
interact (slide/bounce etc) with each other
- Suplementary models: Drag force, particle cohesion, particle
bonding and breaking, turbulent dispersion
- Fluid film
- To model transport and energy transfer of thin fluid films
- Suplementary models: Wave & edge based stripping
Heat Transfer and Conjugate Heat Transfer
- Conduction, Convection
- Radiation - Surface to surface, solar and discrete ordinates (DOM)
Optional
models
wake better than K-E model
- Passive scalar - to visualise tracers e.g. Smoke dispersal
Gamma ReTheta: Transition model from laminar to
- Co-simulation - Coupling to 1D & 3D CAE tools
turbulent regimes
- Thin Film - Models de-fogging and de-icing
Spalart-Allmaras: Predominantly used in Aerospace, good
- Aeroacoustics: Identification of broadband noise sources and far
for attached flow around streamlined
field propagation
bodies
- Melting and Solidification
- Gravity
Reynolds Stress Transport: Works best for cyclone
separators where flow
is highly anisotropic
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...Through to Post-processing
Tip: Volume Mesh or Solution View Representation Must Be Acitve
Creating New Scenes
Right Click Scenes > New Scene
Scenes are made up of different displayers with different
properties applied to each
Menu Bar
Displayers
Scalar displayer
Solution History
Record replay, and review results from transient or steady
state simulations.
-- Solutions are stored in a .simh file
To create a new solution history:
-- Right click on Solution Histories > New
-- Choose a file name
-- If auto recording, make sure "Auto-record is ticked" and
select update rule and frequency (time step, iteration etc)
-- Choose scalar and vector functions to record
-- Choose regions to use
To load an existing solution history
-- Right click on Solution Histories > Load
To load instantaneous solution data into a solution history
-- Right click on the solution history > create snapshot
- To view recorded results
-- Right click on solution history > create recorded
solution view
-- under "Solution views" choose by state name, index,
iteration, time setup or solution time
-- drag and drop solution view into scene or choose in a
representation drop-down
To animate results choose what data to cycle through
and cylcle properties under animation
Displayer types
Geometry
- Used to display geometry
- Colour, opacity and shading may be altered
Scalar
- To plot field functions on parts
- Can be displayed as filled (with or without mesh),
smooth filed and as contours
Vector
- To plot vector quantities
- Vector styles/distributions may be altered
Streamline
- Only used to display streamlines
- Streamlines may be plotted as tubes, lines or ribbons
- May be animated using the toolbar
Particle Track
- To display droplet paths for lagrangian phase
Applying a Representation
Expand Representations
+ Drag the appropriate representation into the active scene
Derived Parts
Right Click Derived Parts >
+ Plane Sections
+ Iso-surfaces
+ Streamlines
+ Thresholds
+ Particle tracks
+ Probes
Exporting a Scene
Right Click on the Scene Name
+ Hard Copy for Static Image
+ Export STAR-View+ for interactive 3D Scene in free viewer
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STAR-CCM+ v7 Hotkeys
Using the Mouse in the Visualization Display
Hotkey
Probe
Reset
Top View
Side View
Front View
Action
In Surface Repair
<LMB>
<MMB>
<RMB>
CTRL+<LMB>
Action
Hotkey
Selection Controls
Action
Hotkey
Select None
SHIFT+N
SHIFT+Z
Up
SHIFT+R
Left
Select/Deselect/Subset Boundaries
SHIFT+B
Right
Grow Selection
Down
Shrink Selection
+
-
Multi-Grow Selection
SHIFT+M
SHIFT+E
SHIFT+V
Alt+1
Alt+2
Smooth Vertices
SHIFT+1
Split Edge
SHIFT+2
SHIFT+3
Zip Edges
Display Controls
Show All
CTRL+A
Hide All
CTRL+SHIFT+A
Fill Holes
Show Selected
CTRL+S
Hide Selected
CTRL+SHIFT+S
Undo
CTRL+Z
Grow Displayed
CTRL + +
Redo
CTRL+Y
Shrink Displayed
CTRL+-
CTRL + B
CTRL+SHIFT B
Repair
Delete Face
Auto repair surface errors
Delete Face
Create Face from Vertices
Collapse Vertices
Swap Edge
Alt+3
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Using Tools
Tools can help add additional complexity and features to a simulation
Annotations
Simple text.
2D, 3D, background, plot and scene images.
Iteration/time step display.
CD-adapco and company logos.
Scene information.
Scene Grid.
Colormaps
Create user defined color maps for use in post processing displayers.
Coordinate Systems
Laboratory system.
Local coordinate system: Cartesian, cylindrical, spherical.
Block-mapped coordinate system: to create section surfaces along periodic directions.
Co-Simulation
Couple STAR-CCM+ to CAE tools.
Data Mappers
Map simulation results to surfaces and volumes for CAE integration.
Data Set Functions
Perform a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on data.
Used for frequency analysis in aeroacoustics.
Field Functions
A mechanism by which fields (raw data from the simulation stored in the cells,
and/or on the boundaries) may be viewed and defined in STAR-CCM+.
- System Field and User Field Functions.
- Scalar Field and Vector field Function.
Layouts
Store the layout of the STAR-CCM+ interface.
Databases
Access to information on a material properties used when selecting physics models.
Motions
Create motions for modeling moving objects such as turbomachines & floating bodies.
Reference frames
Create frames of reference for post processing and rotating/translating objects.
Tables
To specify tabular data for the simulation, particularly for boundary conditions and/or initial
conditions (e.g. fan curves).
To extract and export tabular data from the simulation, including accumulated forces,
i.e. to use as boundary conditions for other simulations.
Transforms
Used by displayers to modify the default position, orientation, or size of the part in the displayer. Transforms can repeat or
mirror parts, or just reposition, resize, or reorient them. The transform feature is for viewing only.
Units
A flexible and customizable support for engineering units allows to view default units and create user defined units.
User code
Allows STAR-CCM+ to be customized with functions written in a compiled language such as C, C++ or Fortran.
Views
The position and angle of the view in a scene may be saved and copied.
Stored views allow for repeatable post-processing.
Volume Shapes
Creates shapes for volumetric controls.
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Toolbar
Explorer Plane
Graphics Window
Properties Window
Output Window
Toolbars Description
Save
Cut
Save All
Copy
Start Recording
Paste
Edit
System
New Simulation
Pause Recording
Macro
Play Macro
Import Mesh
Stop Recording
Load Simulation
Mesh Generation
Plots
Solution
Clear Mesh
Step
Create
Extrude
Create Transform
Sketch Plane
Create
Revolve Create Sweep
Create/Open Plots
Stop
Zoom
Selection Filter
Create Fillet
3D-CAD
Create Sketch
Fit Plan
Zone Select
Create Extrude
Cut
Fit
Rotate
Create Revolve
Cut
View
Create
Loft
Create
Chamfer
Zone Select
Visualization
Create/Open Scenes
Rubberband Select
Animation
Box Zoom
Measure
Distance
Play/Pause Stop
Step Forward
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