Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Training

Learning objectives

• Get to grips with the STAR-CCM+ interface: navigation, simulation tree, modelling tools.
• Import or create complex geometries and prepare them for calculation.
• Build a suitable mesh (surface, volume, local refinements, prism layers) and judge its quality.
• Define materials, fluids and solids, and set up the physics models: flow regimes, turbulence, heat transfer, multiphase.
• Apply boundary conditions correctly: inlets and outlets, walls, symmetries, heat sources.
• Set up, run and monitor single-physics then multi-physics simulations (fluid only, fluid with heat transfer, fluid–structure interaction).
• Analyse results with the post-processing tools: sections, plots, iso-surfaces, vectors, streamlines.
• Set up parametric analyses and design exploration studies (DOE, optimisation).

Syllabus

Day 1 — Getting started and preparing the model

• Introduction to STAR-CCM+ and its workflow; organising a simulation project.
• Importing CAD geometry, repairing surfaces, defining the fluid domain.
• Meshing strategies: surface, polyhedral and trimmed meshes, boundary layers; quality control.

Day 2 — Physics, solving and post-processing

• Choosing physics models: steady or transient, incompressible or compressible, turbulence models, heat transfer.
• Boundary and initial conditions; convergence criteria and stability best practices.
• Exploiting results: scenes, reports, monitors, data export.

Day 3 (optional) — Advanced cases and industrial applications

• Multiphase flows, mesh motion, thermal coupling.
• Parametric studies and Design Manager; automation with Java macros.
• Work on a case brought by the participants.

Audience and prerequisites

Engineers, design-office technicians, researchers and project managers who run or supervise CFD simulations. Prerequisites: basic fluid mechanics (flow rate, pressure, pressure losses). No prior experience of STAR-CCM+ is required.

Teaching methods and assessment

Short presentations alternating with guided exercises on industrial cases (pipe, heat exchanger, ventilation, external aerodynamics), course materials and corrected exercise files, end-of-course assessment reviewed by Numersalis, certificate of completion. Participants work on their company's licences; we can also provide a training environment on request.

Why train with Numersalis?

Our instructors use STAR-CCM+ daily in the CFD studies we deliver to industry: they pass on the methods that save time on real projects, not just the menus.