Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions: What’s new?
Explore how you can leverage computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for an endless range of applications including external aerodynamics, multiphase and reacting flows, electronics cooling, and many more. Look into the most recent release highlights of Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions.
Our solution domain includes the following software Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Simcenter FLOEFD, Simcenter Flotherm, and Simcenter Culgi. New enhancements are aimed at helping you:
Model the complexity
In today’s engineering landscape, complexity is the norm, not the exception. Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions empower engineers to confidently tackle this complexity by enabling high-fidelity multiphysics simulations that mirror real-world behavior. Whether it’s capturing the nuanced thermal interactions in electronics cooling, simulating structural bending with transient analysis, or integrating reduced-order models into full 3D CFD workflows, these tools help you unlock deeper insights with greater accuracy. From battery property prediction to advanced contact modeling in manufacturing, Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions make it easier to represent intricate systems and phenomena, so you can design smarter, faster, and with more confidence.
To model the complexity, the latest releases of Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions offer many more capabilities:
- Unlock higher fidelity and flexibility for e-machines analyses
- Simulate bending structures up to 7x faster
- Accurate bending of thin-walled structures
- Improve meshing of thin parts for faster convergence
- Optimize property predictions for batteries
- Generate detailed IC package, 2R and DELPHI thermal models quickly and easily
- Predict humidity in electronics and data centers
- Perform transient structural simulation and explore results with the transient explorer
- Simplify use of multiple FMU-based reduced order models in 3D CFD
- Control sub-models easily with project parameters
Explore the possibilities
Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions open the door to smarter design exploration, where innovation meets efficiency. By accelerating optimization for discretized geometries and enabling accurate parametrization without molecular size constraints, engineers can push boundaries and uncover better-performing designs faster than ever. These capabilities empower users to navigate complex design spaces with confidence, revealing new opportunities for performance gains and product robustness.
Benefit from the latest Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions releases to:
- Accelerate design optimization for discretized geometries
- Achieve accurate parametrization without molecule size limits
Go faster
Speed is a competitive advantage, and Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions are built to deliver it. From GPU-accelerated rendering that rapidly creates photorealistic imagery, to faster Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) simulations and streamlined mesh generation, these tools help engineers move swiftly from concept to insight. Whether you’re running DEM analysis with a GPU-native solver, accelerating computational chemistry, or shortening PCB thermal analysis with faster Smart PCB import, every step of the workflow is optimized for performance. Simcenter empowers you to iterate faster, simulate more, and make decisions with confidence, without compromising accuracy.
Explore more highlights of the latest releases of Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions to go faster:
- Create photorealistic imagery quickly with powerful GPU-accelerated rendering
- Run faster Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) simulations
- Accelerate mesh generation and speed up surface meshing
- Enhance LES combustion efficiency with 20% faster processing
- Run DEM analysis with GPU-native solver
- Run computational chemistry faster
- Accelerate PCB thermal analysis with faster Smart PCB import and BCI-ROM model extraction support
Stay integrated
In a world of increasingly connected engineering processes, Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions help you stay integrated, technically and organizationally. These tools ensure that data flows smoothly between teams, platforms, and decision points. Whether you’re streamlining gear system setup with automated kinematics, maximizing performance with enhanced SPH capabilities, or exporting XTXML files for flexible electronics thermal model editing, Simcenter Fluids and Thermal portfolio supports robust interoperability. The continued focus on linking tools, harmonizing workflows, and enabling efficient data exchange means simulation is no longer a silo, it’s a strategic asset embedded throughout your development ecosystem.
With the latest releases of Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solutions, we continue to extend the seamless connection to other engineering solution domains:
- Streamline gear systems setup with automated kinematics
- Enhance simulation performance with improved SPH capabilities
- Edit and share detailed component thermal models with XTXML export support
These are just a few of the many new exciting features in the Simcenter Fluids and Thermal solution domain. Learn more about those and further new capabilities in the latest product release blog articles:
