Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

16 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Simcenter STAR-CCM+ are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Meshing: Users have appreciated the ease of meshing in STAR-CCM+, mentioning that it simplifies a traditionally challenging task. Several reviewers have noted that the software allows for trying different approaches to meshing with ease and reliability.

Post-processing Capabilities: Reviewers found the post-processing capabilities in STAR-CCM+ very nice, highlighting its effectiveness across all modeling tasks and physics simulations. Many users have emphasized the software's ability to deliver accurate results in this aspect.

Multi-physics Capabilities: The software has been praised by users for its strong multi-physics capabilities, particularly in Fluid-Structure Interaction simulations. Multiple reviewers have highlighted how STAR-CCM+ provides a comprehensive solution for complex simulation needs due to its flexibility in licensing and versatile adaptability to various scenarios.

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Reviews

12 Reviews

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 12, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm the sole user for that product, but of course, the requirements and the design comes from other teams. And then I carry out the simulation. So I carry out the task with Star-CCM+ and then I give my verdict to those teams, along with any suggestions to improve our technology and products.

Pros

Meshing, for instance, it's very easy to mesh, try different approaches to meshing. Traditionally that's a very difficult job, but in STAR-CCM+ it makes it very easy and very reliable. Post-processing also is very nice and in all the modeling, the physics that you can carry out and you can simulate is also very, very nice. I tried to move to the priorities that does a good job. All in all, it's a very good software.

Cons

Maybe a little bit on the automation side and if you want to script something, if you want to automate procedures, that happens through every simulation round that you have. That part could be a little bit cumbersome right now, depending on the operating system that you use.
Introducing the software on other platforms like Mac OSS.

Likelihood to Recommend

The applications that I have been using it with in terms of flow and energy and temperature distributions and coupled solvers, segregated solvers, these kind of areas if you need that, those kind of solvers, it's very good. It's very robust. Maybe on the combustion side, it could improve, especially if you have these kind of tabulated solvers that you want to use, not the detailed chemistry, then it becomes very difficult to get some results from it. And do you trust the results or not? That's always the question on that kind of application, something that I could think of really fast.

Armin Narimanzadeh

Senior Thermofluids Expert at Convion (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Excellent simulation tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Thermal analysis of aircraft engine nacelles. Ventilation analysis, engine component cooling. Use conduction, convection and radiation in conjugated heat transfer analysis.

Pros

Thermal analysis
Aerothermal analysis
heat exchangers

Cons

Graphical interface
Training

Likelihood to Recommend

It is appropriate for steady state thermal management problems

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

good

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

July 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

for external aero

Pros

accuracy
easy
fast

Cons

wing aero

Likelihood to Recommend

external is best. nor suitable for electronic cooling

burak demiroz

plm eng;neer in Engineering at tusas (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

happy user, looking forward to future updates and capabilities

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

analysis of multiphysics problems, engineering services, all kinds of problems

Pros

simulation tree
client-server
meshing

Cons

stability on linux
sph

Likelihood to Recommend

generally quite happy, software does crash sometimes which can be very annoying

Verified User

Analyst (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ customer review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

product optimization, helping in faster development of our products, reducing time to market, first time right testing approach

Pros

easy to use
fast solver
well documented

Cons

the cad interface
the measurement tool

Likelihood to Recommend

good for checking flow and pressure drop

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

How to support the biggest in industry on technological developments

Rating: 7 out of 10

January 30, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

All flow simulations that are relevant for topics that might have direct impact on product performance. So optical column conditioning, outgassing and deposition rates, defectivity, Optics Life time, Thermal and pressure stability.

Pros

Multiphase Flow
Meshing capabilities for industrial problems
CAD import from NX
User Interface
Postprocessing & visualization

Cons

Implementing physics like Cox-Voinov model
Mesh related stability issues
Chemical & plasma physics
Integration with other products from Siemens (similar level as we have with Abacus)
Speed up the lagrangian solver
Improved guidence on uFluidics & evaporation models
Interoperability (HEEDS, AMEsim, System Modelling Workbench but also with non siemens products and open source codes required for LBM, DSMC, PIC, DFT...

Likelihood to Recommend

We still are not able to do without other sw. There are plenty of use cases that we are more or less forced to allow people to use sw from the competition. Training needs to be updated. e.g. the meshing course is outdated and should contain all aspects like AMR, Overset, Boundary layer, quiality checks and service repair (preferably send back to TC if there already not good). Help documentation needs to be updated with LL and current state of the art (including best practices evaporation, chemical librarry, new meshing strategies, boundary slip etc etc.) Using STAR-NX (guidence on where best to do what related to CAD NX vs STAR). Making use of Amesim HEEDS in order to do ROM.

Evert van Vliet

Manager Flow Modelling in Research & Development at ASML (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

11 years of experience

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Simcenter is now industry leader, growing in a fast pace to catch entire market

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for vehicle and engine cfd simulations. Majorly for underhood, underbody, cabin, and thermal problems. Engine wise CHT, air flow and etc. With the help of the design optimization module, we are able to solve the frequent problems that occur during the performance evaluations. It makes the Engineer role easy at the organizational level.

Pros

Physics setup
Postprocess
Automation tool
Parallel computing

Cons

File size will be very big to handle.

Likelihood to Recommend

Star-ccm is well suited for nonlinear and unsteady problems. It solves thermal problems very well. The easy part is that we can customize as per customer choice. The test and Cae correlation for cfd problems will match exactly with Starcom. We have done a lot of procedures with siemens by giving projects to them directly, which helps us to focus on our vehicle development.

Naresh kumar Gunda

Head of the section in Research & Development at HMIE (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

Single-GUI Multiphysics with script-free automation capability

Rating: 10 out of 10

July 1, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Simcenter STAR-CCM+ as a general-purpose CFD solver for things like cooling systems, lube systems, exhaust systems, external hydrodynamics, etc. It is extremely user-friendly, easy to automate, and very capable as a single-tool multi-physics solver.

Pros

Automation without the need for scripting
Multi-physics sims in single GUI (such as FSI)
Strong multi-phase capabilities (air, water, cavitation, etc.)
Flexible licensing

Cons

Scripting language is Java, not Python (for instances that built-in automation doesn't cover)
Error messages not always the most helpful
Cannot change simulation settings without license

Likelihood to Recommend

Very good at running large parametric studies or design optimizations where pre/post-processing can be automated without scripting. Mesh generation is very automated and easy to use. Single-GUI multi-physics (CFD, FEA, electromagnetics, etc.) makes running complex sims such as fluid-structure interaction very straightforward and less error-prone. It is a very general solver with tons of capability; therefore, the learning curve can be quite steep for someone without simulation experience.

Andrew Gunderson

CFD Engineer in Engineering at Mercury Marine (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Great variety of models and physics, cuts down on empirical tests

Rating: 8 out of 10

June 28, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to model two-phase fluid heat transfer with high fidelity modeling of nucleate boiling and related phenomena. It's in parallel or complete replacement to experimental testing that is difficult or not feasible to implement in a lab setting.

Pros

Variety of fluid physics models.
Amount of documentation and references gives a good starting point.
Fast and intuitive interface.

Cons

More generalized automation functions, some features are incompatible with scripting.
More state of the art numerical methods available.
Examples and documentation on created generalized user code to access back-end data.

Likelihood to Recommend

For any single-phase flow problem, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ kills it, but for some hypersonic applications, you'd be better off with a specialized or in-house code. For multiphase modeling it has maybe 80% of models that exist, a few major recent innovations are lacking support (interface reconstruction methods for example) but Simcenter STAR-CCM+ does offer a variety of approaches that are popular in literature.

Verified User

Employee in Research & Development (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

A well-polished swiss army knife to tackle a variety of multiphysics applications.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 22, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to perform CFD analyses on a variety of topics mostly within the automotive industry but also in other sectors of industrial research. The software allows us to extract all the important performance indicators like pressure drop, heat transfer coefficient, noise level, transient behavior, etc.

Pros

CAD manipulation and repair.
Conjugated Heat Transfer.
Automated Meshing.
Design of Experiments.
CFD modelling in general.

Cons

Mode advanced user coding.
More extended use of GPUs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for multiphase flows, conjugate heat transfer, and ICE simulations. Also, the advanced 3D-CAD modeling features allow us to not need a dedicated CAD modeling software (for ordinary tasks). Somewhat less optimized for advanced turbomachinery modeling with respect to competition. The GPU acceleration feature is interesting but it needs to be compatible with more physics models and preferably not require an additional license.

Cristian Grigore

CFD analyst in Engineering at R&D CFD (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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