STAR-CCM+ Online

Course Duration: 4 Days

Prerequisites

None

Who Should Attend

The STAR-CCM+ course is most suitable for engineers or analysts that are new to CD-adapco software or computational fluid dynamics in general. Additionally, the course can be used as refresher training for experienced or occasional users of the software.

Course Description

This is an online delivery of the STAR-CCM+ Foundation Course material. Serving as an introduction to our Enterprise-Wide software solution, the aim of the class is to equip the attendee with a firm understanding of the basic principles of computational fluid flow and heat transfer analysis, as delivered in STAR-CCM+.

Attendees will experience a gradual well-structured learning curve over a 4 half-day period that reflects the major processes developed in STAR-CCM+. Each day we aim to have attendees using the software, hands-on, to begin their own simulations after instruction through tutorials and lectures. Using this structured approach, attendees will leave the training ready to address common numerical engineering challenges using STAR-CCM+ comfortable in the knowledge that CD-adapco engineering support will be available to provide on-going technical support.

Course Content

The course is delivered in four 4-hour sessions over a four day period.

Session 1

During the first part of the session, we discuss and present the conceptual elements of fluid flow simulation moving on to describe how these elements are represented in the workflow process of STAR-CCM+. We describe the architecture of the software and the advantages of the client-server approach before moving into an introductory example that moves from problem import to a review of simulation results and an introduction to post-processing. The second part of the session concentrates on STAR-CCM+'s ability to create parametric geometries as well as import and manipulate CAD models.

Session 2

This half-day session focuses on the basics of mesh generation – principles and strategies for efficient computational solving. The different surface and volume meshing models which constitute the meshing pipeline in STAR-CCM+ are introduced. Topics covering the functionality to repair imported geometries to the fully automatic mesh creation capabilities are discussed as well as an introduction to multi-domain meshing and mesh modifications.

Session 3

This portion of the class concentrates on an overview of physics modeling capabilities within STAR-CCM+ and the numerical solver details for effective solution of the flow field. An interactive tutorial consolidates the knowledge acquired over the last three sessions with a start-to-finish example of the STAR-CCM+ workflow process.

Session 4

The last portion of the class is used to explore additional capability and productivity features including:
• Post-processing: Extracting quantitative and qualitative information from the simulation results.
• Field Functions: Allowing customization and refined control.
• Macros: Automating the CFD process.