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v7RefGuide02_2012

STAR-CCM+ v7 Workflow Process


From Geometry Creation & Import
Import a surface/CAD geometry
File > Import Surface or Click

Import, Edit or Create a New Geometry using 3D-CAD


Right click on 3D models > New
+ Right Click on a Plane > Create Sketch
+ Right Click on a Sketch > Choose 3D Feature Operation

Turn 3D-CAD Model into a Region


Rename Faces in 3D-CAD for Boundaries
+ Close 3D-CAD > Right Click on Model > New Geometry Part
+ Right Click on Part > Choose Region > New

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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...To Mesh Generation


Creating a Mesh Continuum
Right click on Continue > New
+ Select Mesh
+ Right click Mesh > Select Models

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.

Meshing Rules of thumb


Minimum of 4-5 cells across a thin channel
For flows where heat transfer or lift/drag is important
- At least 15 cells in the prism layer
- Y+ values should be less than 3
Refine where there are high gradients
- Recirculation
- Jet flows
- High temperature gradients

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

Tip: Always look at the engineering


quantities that need to be derived
from the simulation!

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

Local Mesh Settings

Thin Mesher
Create prisms in thin objects
Reduces cell count for thin objects

Region specific settings


- Refine a porous media or thin wall solid
Boundary specific settings
- Small geometry relative to over all size
Advancing Layer Mesher
- Special boundary layer needs
Used to create thicker layers of polyhedral prisms
- Bounding box may need coarser settings
Effective for external aerodynamics,
hydrodynamics etc

Setting up the Physics...


Creating a Physics Continuum

Monitoring Convergence

Right click on Continua > New


+ Select Physics
+ Right click on new continua > Select Models
+ Essential models use round check box, optional use square

Residuals
- Should decrease by 2-3 orders of magnitude

Tip: Auto-select option will choose most commonly


used models

Creating Reports and Monitors


Right click Reports > New
+ Select desired type of report
+ Define included parts and units to return
+ Right click on the new report > create monitor and plot
from report
To create field monitors
+ Right click Monitors
+ New Monitor
Tip: Multiple reports can be put in one plot

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

 In case of divergence, check:

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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Setting up the Physics...continued


Overset Meshes
To model extreme ranges of motion between multiple
bodies, easily swap parts, change body positions
To use overset meshes:
- Outer boundaries of overset region should be
"overset mesh" type
- Select the background and overset region
right click > Create Interface > Overset Mesh

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)

Combustion and Chemical Reaction


- Coal combustion, Eddy Break-up (EBU), Homogeneous reactor,
Coherent Flame Model (CFM), Partially Pre-mixed Coherent Flame
Model (PCFM), Presumed Probability Density Function (PPDF),
- Segregated Flow and Segregated Fluid Energy: for most sub
Progress variable model (PVM), Thickened flame model,
sonic flows, Lagrangian multiphase for droplet modeling
Soot moments emission
Viscous regime
Multiphysics
- Inviscid: for high-Reynolds compressible aerodynamics
- Solid Stress: small and large deformations formulation
- Laminar
- Battery simulation: Simulation of coupled electric and thermal
- Turbulent (3 approaches: RANS, LES, DES)
fields in batteries
K-Epsilon: generally well suited to industrial-type
- Electromagnetic Field Simulation
applications
- Fluid Structure Interaction and Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction
K-Omega: good for low speed external aero
- Import/map/export CAE models
(Automotive or Aerospace), captures

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

Different scene types contain a default set of displayers,


more may be added once the scene has been created
Change opacity of a displayer to create overlay effect
Scene in Scene feature, creating composite scenes

Menu Bar

Displayers
Scalar displayer

Scalar Color Bar

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

In the Scene window


Action

Hotkey

Probe

Reset

Top View

Side View

Front View

Fit the View

Action

LMB = left mouse button.


MMB = middle mouse button.
RMB = right mouse button.

In Surface Repair

<LMB>

Rotates the view.


Moving the mouse horizontally will rotate the
view around the vertical axis
Moving the mouse vertically will rotate the view
around the horizontal axis
Moving the mouse at some angle, combines
the two rotations

<MMB>

Zooms the view in or out.


Moving the mouse up, makes the view larger
Moving the mouse down, makes the view smaller

<RMB>

Pans the model across the screen

CTRL+<LMB>

Rotates the view around the axis perpendicular to


the screen.
Moving the mouse down rotates clockwise
Moving it up rotates the view counter-clockwise

Action

Hotkey

Selection Controls
Action

Hotkey

Browse Problem Areas

Select None

SHIFT+N

Select/Deselect/Subset Select Zone

SHIFT+Z

First Problem Area

Up

Select/Deselect/Subset Select Geometric Range

SHIFT+R

Previous Problem Area

Left

Select/Deselect/Subset Boundaries

SHIFT+B

Right

Grow Selection

Down

Shrink Selection

Next Problem Area


Last Problem Area

+
-

Multi-Grow Selection

SHIFT+M

Select Attached Edges

SHIFT+E

Select Attached Vertices

SHIFT+V

Toggle face selection

Alt+1

Toggle edge selection

Alt+2

Toggle vertex selection

Smooth Vertices

Clear face selection

SHIFT+1

Split Edge

Clear edge selection

SHIFT+2

Clear vertex selection

SHIFT+3

Zip Edges

Display Controls

Flag Feature Edge

Show All

CTRL+A

Unflag Feature Edge

Hide All

CTRL+SHIFT+A

Fill Holes

Show Selected

CTRL+S

Fill Polygonal Patch

Hide Selected

CTRL+SHIFT+S

Undo

CTRL+Z

Grow Displayed

CTRL + +

Redo

CTRL+Y

Shrink Displayed

CTRL+-

Show Faces on Boundaries

CTRL + B

Hide Faces on Boundaries

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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The STAR-CCM+ Workspace


Menu Bar

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 Surface Mesh

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

Initialize Solution Run

Import Surface Initialize Mesh Create Volume Mesh

Zone Select
Create Extrude
Cut
Fit

Rotate

Create Revolve
Cut
View

Create
Loft

Create
Chamfer

Zone Select

Step Backward Write Movie

Redo View Create Section Toggle mesh

Visualization
Create/Open Scenes

Rubberband Select

Animation
Box Zoom

Undo View Transparent

Measure
Distance

Play/Pause Stop

Step Forward

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