CD-adapco STAR-CCM+Box Includes Polyhedral Mesher
LONDON, England, March 17, 2005 - CD-adapco, the leading provider of full-spectrum and CAD-embedded Computational Fluid Dynamics, has announced the release of the world's first fully integrated process for polyhedral CFD. The first official release of the STAR-CCM+ Box Set combines CD-adapco's technology leading STAR-CCM+ solver with STAR-Design, which includes the world's first commercially available polyhedral mesher.
STAR-Design, CD-adapco's fully functional parametric solid modeler, allows polyhedral meshes to be created at the click of a button. Based on the same Parasolid kernel that powers many leading CAD packages, STAR-Design is both powerful and easily accessible. Using an intuitive interface, even a casual user can easily build, mesh and run an industrial strength CFD simulation. Using STAR-Design, polyhedral meshes can be easily generated from the created (or imported) CAD geometry at the click of a button.
Extensive validation has demonstrated that polyhedral meshes offer near hexahedral accuracy with all of the automatic meshing benefits of tetrahedra. Professor Milovan Peric, CD-adapco's Director of Technology, explains, “Recent tests have shown that, for equivalent or better accuracy, polyhedral meshes converge up to ten times faster than tetrahedra, typically delivering a speedup of 400 - 500%”, he says, "Polyhedral CFD delivers more for less: more accurate solutions, using fewer cells and ultimately greatly reduced human and computing resources"
Dr Dennis Nagy, CD-adapco's Vice President of Business Development, acknowledges that polyhedral meshing is the first payoff of CD-adapco's investment in solver technology. "While other CFD vendors are content to simply build upon their existing aging software architectures with STAR-CCM+, we decided to go back to the drawing-board and build our solutions upon the most advanced technology currently available", says Dr Nagy. “The arrival of polyhedral meshing represents a watershed for industrial CFD".
"I am confident that the arrival of our polyhedral meshing technology spells the end for tetrahedra as a useful tool for CFD", says CD-adapco President and founder Steve MacDonald. "Tetrahedra - as well as the CFD codes which continue to rely on them - are doomed to become a thing of the past"
The STAR-CCM+ Virtual Box Set is available to existing CD-adapco customers from https://www2.cd-adapco.com/
If you are interested in joining the polyhedral revolution but are not currently a CD-adapco customer, you can download a trial version from www.cd-adapco.com/products/CCMdemo.htm
About CD-adapco
CD-adapco is a global enterprise providing advanced computationally based engineering solutions for simulating fluid flow and heat transfer. This includes Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software CAD-integrated CFD options, training and CFD/FEA engineering and consulting services. Its main offices are in New York, London and Yokohama with subsidiary offices across the world.
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