CD-adapco Releases STAR-CD V4.06

By DE Editors

CD-adapco (New York & London), a global provider of industrial strength solutions for fluid flow, heat transfer, and stress, released of STAR-CD V4.06, its fourth release of STAR-CD V4.

STAR-CD’s reputation for versatility and ability to tackle problems involving complex multiphysics and complicated geometries (using stationary or moving meshes) now includes an improved meshing process and the ability to simulate physics phenomena that have, until now, been beyond the reach of mainstream computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology.

STAR-CD V4.06 provides benefits for CD-adapco’s extensive community of Internal Combustion Engine designers and engineers. Users of STAR-CD V4.06 will also benefit from improved treatment of porous media and polyhedral meshes; enhancements to parallel file handling have significantly improved the scalability of STAR-CD V4.06 compared to other CFD codes;  additional options for finite volume stress analysis including; orthotropic elastic materials, automatic time step control based on plastic strain and improved solution mapping from mesh to mesh; improvement of melting and solidification and casting model to incorporate FV stress solutions; discrete element modeling (DEM) for the study of granular transport such as hopper flows, sand blasting, and heap formation (available as a beta feature).

For more details on STAR-CD V4.06, visit CD-adapco.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.