Introduction to CFD & STAR-Design Course Description

Course Duration: 1 Day
Course Schedule: To suit user’s requirements

Who Should Attend

This course is recommended to: - Engineering Managers, FEA analysts, and in general all engineers who will not be full time dedicated to CFD but wish to have an operative short training on the complete CFD work flow

• Absolute beginners of STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+

• Advanced STAR-CD/STAR-CCM+ users who need to integrate basic solid modelling into their workflow

• all STAR-CD/STAR-CCM+ users who are interested in using the STAR-Design visualization tool

Course Aims

The course is aimed at introducing the user to the basics of solid modelling, and how to setup and post-process a fluid-dynamic model in the STAR-Design environment. The attendees will work hands-on through several complete examples, from the modelling to the post-processing phase. The course also offers the User the opportunity to discuss how to integrate each module of STAR-Design into more complex workflows using various intermediate file formats.

Course Structure

The course structure is designed to take the User through the various stages of building, setting up, running and post-process a model, and to use worked examples to demonstrate these techniques.

Course Content

The content of the course, based on the above aims and structure, is as follows:

1) Introduction and nomenclature

This section introduces the various types of elements in the STAR-Design environment (edges, faces, bodies, domains etc ). The user is given time to familiarize with the Graphical User Interface and basic concepts like removing and copying an entity, shifting and extruding bodies, boolean operations, assigning a boundary etc.

2) Workshop: 3D Pipe

This section demonstrates how to build from scratch a relatively simple 3D pipe, including actions like precise positioning of entities, boolean operations, extrusions etc. The example is completely worked out, including running the simulation with STAR-CD or STAR-CCM+, up to the final phase of calculating quantities such as pressure and velocities at specific locations.

Moreover, the associativity concept will be shown repeating the analysis after modifying the geometry.

3) Workshop: Heat Exchanger

This section demonstrated how to setup a multi-domain simulation involving a fluid and a solid region. Specific advanced meshing operations such as sub-domain creation and imprinting will be shown. The example is worked out step by step until the User has reached a complete understanding of the heat exchange phenomenon by using post-processing techniques such as streamlines, sections, iso surfaces etc.

Course Requirements

No previous knowledge of pro-STAR or STAR-CCM+ is required for basic functionality.
Advanced users can take advantage of their experience to integrate STAR-Design in a wider workflow.