What’s New in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2310

The release of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2310 gives engineers across industries with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities to explore engineering possibilities and turn complexity into a competitive advantage.

Discover the top new features:

  • Battery – 3D cell design template capability
  • Thermal runaway simulation configurator: gas venting
  • Wall-bound droplets
  • Design Manager connection to Simcenter Reduced Order Modeling
  • Web Viewer Simulation Structure
  • Parallel Surface Wrapper – Phase 1
  • New Automation node
  • Extended simulation automation intelligence with Stages
  • Conservative Maximum Distance Mapping
  • Implicit Multi-Step for Eulerian Multiphase – Large Scale Interface (LSI)
  • GPU Acceleration – Continuous Solver and Application Expansion
  • Cabin Comfort: Fiala Thermoregulation, DTS, PPD and EHT comfort index models
  • Simcenter Cloud HPC Multiple region support and compatibility

Explore more notable new features and improvements:

  • Platform: GPU native: Coupled solver, Equilibrium Air EOS, Radial Equilibrium boundary condition, soot models, Gamma-ReTheta transition model
  • User Experience: Automation node (includes parameters, filters, simulation operations, etc), Stages for automation, Simulation guide enhancements, Inline creation of user field functions and parameters
  • CAD-Client (NX 2306 Series) and CAD-Exchange updates (NX2306 Series) and updates to other CAD packages
  • 3D-Cad improvements: Contact Browser enhancements, Ability to create equation based curves, Improved primitive object manipulation, Ability to import 3D Curves as Rigid Spline, Improved synchronization between 3D-CAD and Parts (only updates modified parts)
  • Surface preparation: Restore previously displayed faces in surface repair scene
  • Surface mesher: Parallel Surface Wrapper (Legacy Surface Wrapper is still available as an expert property)
  • Volume mesher: Improved memory handling for meshing pipeline, Isolated Surface diagnostics for tetrahedral and polyhedral meshers
  • CGNS files – map on export, CGNS memory and performance improvements
  • Flow: Flow boundary diffusion option for the passive scalar solver, Fluid continua with no-flow solver support for EMAG or electro chemistry cases
  • Reacting flows: Acoustic Modal Solver (User defined heat release rate input, Pressure phase field function, Improved first order accuracy), Complex Chemistry: performance improvement for large mechanisms, Interphase Reactions for Mixture Multiphase (MMP), Boundary Mixing State specification for ECFM-CLEH
  • Turbulence: Redesigned user interface for wall roughness models, Free Stream Edge parameter removed from Gamma-ReTheta transition model
  • Multiphase flow: Implicit Multi-Step for EMP-LSI, Interface Turbulence Damping for LSI, Conservative mapping for VOF for arbitrary remeshing events, Face flux discretization for free surfaces in VOF simulations, Post-Processing and Filtering for Adaptive Timestep
    Providers
  • Lagrangian and DEM: Wall-bound droplets (for vehicle water management/ Spherical Cap Particle shape), Composite collision modeling for droplets, Liquid-Solid-Gas particles compatible with Passive Scalar, DEM Cohesion model for non-spherical particles and
    Impact Cutting model for flexible fibers or particle clumps
  • Computation Rheology: Free Surface Model: Transient Extrusion
  • Solid Mechanics: Optimal (Chung-Hulbert) and HHT (Hilber-Hughes-Taylor) methods, Additional Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio Neo-Hook hyperelastic material specification, Inertial loads due to rigid body motions based on the deformed configuration, Run FSI simulations with no fluid present from the onset, other enhancements
  • Electro-magnetic: New formulation of the uniform potential boundary condition in the EDP model, Specify conductivity via the resistivity, Electrochemistry models for battery Cell Design Solution
  • Aeroacoustics: Conservative Maximum Distance Mapping, Post FW-H compatibility with .simh, Acoustically transparent Porous Baffle Interfaces, FFT In-core calculation, 3rd subdivision octave bands
  • Mesh Motion, AMR: Region Reposition Solver, Distance driver constraint for DFBI, Support for VOF-Lagrangian interaction in Overset, Parts based support for boundary axis specification
  • Design Manager: Sort N Designs Set for advanced save options, Group by Studies, Aspect Ratio uniformity
  • Data Analysis: Enhanced visualization and user interaction for Line Integral Convolution (LIC), Usability improvements for plots, Show mesh lines of resampled volume during creation and slicing, Idealization support in displayers for symmetries and extrusions, Display Summaries in Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Web Viewer Simulation Structure, Representation-sensitive filtering (Color bar dialog will only show field functions that exists for selected
    representation), Removed 2D fixed view heuristic
  • In-Cylinder Solution: multiple enhancement
  • Batteries: Power load type boundary condition for batteries simulations
  • Turbomachinery: Expanded coverage of Harmonic Balance field functions, Fourier mode solution periodicity with Harmonic Balance Solution View, Improved Turbo slicer to extend inlet and outlet surfaces

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