CD-adapco Announces Latest Version Of STAR-CCM Computational Fluid Dynamics Package
CD-adapco will be unveiling the dedicated turbomachinery functionality in the newly released version of their leading Computational Fluid Dynamics package, STAR-CCM+ V3.02, at ELECTRIC POWER 2008, the world's most comprehensive conference for the power generation industry. ELECTRIC POWER 2008 will be held from Tuesday, May 6 to Thursday, May 8, 2008 at the Baltimore Convention Centre.
Turbomachinery has been a target application area for STAR-CCM+ since its inception. Recent releases have included many new features that are aimed directly at the turbomachinery community. This includes a dedicated interface for performing turbomachinery simulations in the latest STAR-CCM+ V3.02 release. Static and dynamic analysis for multi-row devices as well as blade cooling analysis has never been easier.
"The new graphical user interface essentially captures CD-adapco's best practice for setting up, meshing, solving and analyzing problems involving compressors, turbines or other rotating machinery," says CD-adapco VP of Product Management Jean-Claude Ercolanelli. "The interface guides users through the process of performing turbomachinery analysis step-by-step, but is flexible enough to allow for significant user customization. For example, depending on circumstance users can choose to construct meshes using arbitrary polyhedral, automatic hexahedra, or using a new elliptical mesher that produces structured boundary fitted hexahedral meshes."
CD-adapco staff will be on hand throughout the conference to demonstrate how STAR-CCM+ can be applied to the complete range of Power Generation technologies, from turbine blade simulation, to applications in wave and wind power. Please visit us at booth number 935.
About STAR-CCM+
From CAD models to post-processing, STAR-CCM+ delivers the entire CFD process in a single integrated software environment. This unique approach brings unrivaled ease-of-use and automation to CAD preparation, meshing, model set-up and iterative design studies, enabling your Engineers to deliver better results, faster.
Innovations such as built-in surface-wrapping, advanced automated meshing (creating either polyhedral or predominantly hexahedral volume meshes) and the ability to 'copy and paste' components between models have quickly established STAR-CCM+ a reputation for producing high-quality results in a single code with minimum user effort.
From its first release in 2004, STAR-CCM+ has impressed the CFD community with its rapid pace of development, a new major version is released every four months. Written 'from the ground up' using object-oriented programming and the latest software technology combined with outstanding ease-of-use and accuracy, STAR-CCM+ is an entirely new concept in CFD.
For more information, please visit www.cd-adapco.com or email info@us.cd-adapco.com
SOURCE: CD-adapco