#1 most frequent
United States of America
45.0%567 installations of 1,261
What is Simcenter STAR-CCM+?
Simcenter, from Siemens, is a suite of simulation tools and software. STAR-CCM+ is a multiphysics computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to study how products operate under real-world conditions.
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Who Buys & Uses Simcenter STAR-CCM+
#2 most frequent
Germany
7.1%90 installations of 1,261
#3 most frequent
China
6.3%79 installations of 1,261
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Review
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.
Return on Investment
- I can't think of anything but positive of course. I mean, we've been improving our products, we've been using this to test less to make sure that our products will meet the requirements and meet the objectives that we have. And I've never seen a case where it has been proven otherwise. So yeah, it's been great for us.
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
for external aero
Pros
- accuracy
- easy
- fast
Cons
- wing aero
Return on Investment
- Return on Investment
- fast result
Other Software Used
Ansys Fluent, Ansys CFX
How to support the biggest in industry on technological developments
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...
Return on Investment
- Setting up from scratch and the ability to use certain .sim as golden reference set's is helping a lot (related to process automation)
- AMR and overset are powerfull for industrial application
Other Software Used
Ansys Fluent, COMSOL Multiphysics
Simcenter is now industry leader, growing in a fast pace to catch entire market
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.
Return on Investment
- Model development time reduced.
- Product performance has increased a lot.
- Collaboration makes easy.
Other Software Used
Altair HyperWorks, ThermoGrid, Ansys Fluent
A well-polished swiss army knife to tackle a variety of multiphysics applications.
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.
Return on Investment
- Not needing a dedicated CAD modeling software is beneficial to the overall business economics.
- The wide variety of physics phenomena approachable with Simcenter STAR-CCM+ allows for sector diversification.
