| Simcenter STAR-CCM+ | |
| Logo Size: | 150px |
| Developer: | Siemens PLM Software |
| Released: | 2004 |
| Latest Release Version: | Version 2302 |
| Platform: | Linux, Windows |
| Language: | English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean |
| Genre: | 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.
STAR-CCM+ was announced at the 2004 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference in Reno, Nevada.[4] A unique feature was a generalized polyhedral cell formulation, allowing the solver to handle any mesh type imported.[5] 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.
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is primarily Computational fluid dynamics software which uses the Finite element analysis or Finite volume methodto 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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.