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Developer(s) | Siemens PLM Software |
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Initial release | 2004 |
Stable release | Version 2302
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Platform | Linux, Windows |
Available in | English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean |
Type | Computational fluid dynamics and multiphysics simulation |
License | Proprietary |
Website | Simcenter STAR-CCM+ website |
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based simulation software developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ allows the modeling and analysis of a range of engineering problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, stress, particulate flow, electromagnetics and related phenomena.
Formerly known as STAR-CCM+, the software was first developed by CD-adapco and was acquired by Siemens Digital Industries Software as part of the purchase of CD-adapco in 2016. It is now a part of the Simcenter Portfolio of software tools. [1]
Development work on STAR-CCM+ was started after a decision was taken to design a new, integrated CFD tool to replace the existing product STAR-CD which had been developed during the 1980s and 1990s by Computational Dynamics Ltd, a spin-off company from an Imperial College London CFD research group. [2] STAR-CD was widely used most notably in the automotive industry. [3] STAR-CCM+ aimed to take advantage of more modern programming methods and to provide an expandable framework. [4]
STAR-CCM+ was announced at the 2004 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference in Reno, Nevada. [5] A unique feature was a generalized polyhedral cell formulation, allowing the solver to handle any mesh type imported. [4] The first official release included the first commercially available polyhedral mesher, offering faster model convergence compared to an equivalent tetrahedral mesh. [6] [7]
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is developed according to a continual improvement process, with a new version released every four months. [8] The program uses a client-server architecture, [9] implemented using object-oriented programming. [8]
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is primarily Computational fluid dynamics software which uses the Finite element analysis or Finite volume method to calculate the transport of physical quantities on a discretized mesh. For fluid flow the Navier–Stokes equations are solved in each of the cells. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ has multiphysics capabilities including:
Version | Release Date |
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1.04 | October 2004 |
1.06 | December 2004 |
1.08 | January 2005 |
2.02 | November 2005 |
2.04 | October 2006 |
2.06 | February 2007 |
3.02 | March 2008 |
3.04 | July 2008 |
3.06 | November 2008 |
4.02 | March 2009 |
4.04 | July 2009 |
4.06 | November 2009 |
5.02 | February 2010 |
5.04 | June 2010 |
5.06 | October 2010 |
6.02 | March 2011 |
6.04 | July 2011 |
6.06 | October 2011 |
7.02 | March 2012 |
7.04 | June 2012 |
7.06 | November 2012 |
8.02 | March 2013 |
8.04 | June 2013 |
8.06 | October 2013 |
9.02 | February 2014 |
9.04 | June 2014 |
9.06 | October 2014 |
10.02 | February 2015 |
10.04 | June 2015 |
10.06 | October 2015 |
11.02 | February 2016 |
11.04 | June 2016 |
11.06 | October 2016 |
12.02 | February 2017 |
12.04 | June 2017 |
12.06 | October 2017 |
13.02 | February 2018 |
13.04 | June 2018 |
13.06 | October 2018 |
2019.1 | February 2019 |
2019.2 | June 2019 |
2019.3 | October 2019 |
2020.1 | February 2020 |
2020.2 | June 2020 |
2020.3 | October 2020 |
2021.1 | February 2021 |
2021.2 | June 2021 |
2021.3 | October 2021 |
2022.1 | February 2022 |
2206 | June 2022 |
2210 | October 2022 |
2302 | February 2023 |
2306 | June 2023 |
2310 | October 2023 |
2402 | February 2024 |
Prior to CD-adapco's acquisition by Siemens, the customer base was approximately 3,200 accounts with 52% of licence sales attributed to the automotive industry.