May The Aerodynamic Force be With You!

May The Aerodynamic Force be With You!

As the old saying goes, in order to run, first you must walk . Whilst this may sound like the advice of a wizened old Jedi Master (although that might be something more like “to run, walk first you …

Siemens PLM joining LyoHUB (Advanced Lyophilization Technology Hub)

As an effect of globalization, the patent life of newly discovered drugs has decreased considerably, forcing manufacturers to minimize drug development time as well as maximize throughput. To achieve…

STAR-CCM+ drives InDesA’s digital twin development through 1D and 3D co-simulation

Gone are your father’s engines, the ones that polluted the air and burned a tank of gas by the time he drove the car home from work. In today’s climate, bigger isn’t necessarily better, and concerns …

Looking under the hood: AGCO finds superior performance and safety through STAR-CCM+ simulation

Agricultural vehicles increasingly have to provide a comfortable and safe working environment for operators, some of whom will spend their entire working day inside a cabin. AGCO, a worldwide manufac…

New accuracy study opens the door to CFD led clinical trials

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a vital tool for the research of blood flow dynamics in the human cardiovascular system as well as other biological flow phenomena. Recently, CFD has garnered in…

STAR-ICE: Internal Combustion Engine simulation comes to STAR-CCM+

The Economist recently published an obituary to the Internal Combustion Engine in an article which opened with the statement that:”It had a good run. But the end is in sight for the machine that chan…

STAR-CCM+ v12.06: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

Over the past several releases the STAR-CCM+ team has been hard at work ensuring that users can easily and effectively replace components in their models and re-run in under five clicks.  Betwee…

Less is more only when more is too much in STAR-CCM+ v12.06

The proposition that “less is more”, first penned by Robert Browning back in 1855, has stood the test of time. It has influenced architecture throughout this century and the last and was keenly asses…

Realistic Combustion Simulation with STAR-CCM+ v12.06

When I started in this field more than 12 years ago, combustion CFD simulations were typically done using CPU inexpensive approaches such as eddy break-up or flamelet combustion models with RANS. The…