Tree-structured, step-by-step, graphical user interface

STAR-CCM+ offers outstanding ease-of-use delivered through an object-based tree-structured GUI, which guides even the most novice user through the set-up and analysis of a CFD problem. Utilizing the latest numerical algorithms including an advanced pre-conditioned coupled and segregated solver and state-of-the-art software coding, the new product brings unheard levels of accuracy, reliability and flexibility to the CFD engineer.

Many (if not all!) CFD companies have at some point claimed ease-of-use for their codes, but STAR-CCM+ really has evidence to back up that claim. With its object-based user interface you need only populate the features that you have activated, and nothing additional appears in the interface. It is almost impossible to set up a model and not get results. Unlike conventional GUI’s‘ form-filling’ approach, the GUI asks the user a sequence of relevant questions, and will not be satisfied until it gets each answer. When all questions have been answered, the solver is almost certain to run. Although the universal truth of ‘Rubbish in, rubbish out’ still applies, the familiar complaint that ‘I set everything up, but it would not run’ is destined to be a thing of the past.