Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.6 out of 10

Score

9.6 out of 10

Community insights

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Pros

Ease of Meshing: Users have appreciated the ease of meshing in STAR-CCM+, mentioning that it simplifies a traditionally challenging task. Several reviewers have noted that the software allows for trying different approaches to meshing with ease and reliability.

Post-processing Capabilities: Reviewers found the post-processing capabilities in STAR-CCM+ very nice, highlighting its effectiveness across all modeling tasks and physics simulations. Many users have emphasized the software's ability to deliver accurate results in this aspect.

Multi-physics Capabilities: The software has been praised by users for its strong multi-physics capabilities, particularly in Fluid-Structure Interaction simulations. Multiple reviewers have highlighted how STAR-CCM+ provides a comprehensive solution for complex simulation needs due to its flexibility in licensing and versatile adaptability to various scenarios.

Reviews

14 Reviews

Why STAR-CCM.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are Engineering Solutions and Service providers, and we project STARCCM+ as one of the leading tools used in various application areas ranging from Automotive, Aerospace, Energy, Renewable Energy, Marine, and Consumer Electronics. The Physics that can be modeled include a wide variety ranging from Aerodynamics, Hydrodynamics, Heat Transfer & Thermal Management, Multiphase Flow, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), Combustion & Reacting Flows, Aeroacoustics, and Electrochemistry.

Pros

Automated workflows for optimization using CAD and Flow parameters.
FSI and Aeroacoustics.
Multiphase Flow modeling along with Rheology.
Template-based Simulation for shorter runtimes.
Detailed User Guide with A range of tutorials for every physics.

Cons

To include more Structural solvers to encompass the Entire multi-physics capabilities.

Likelihood to Recommend

A case where you are interested in modeling various physics such as

Aerodynamics,

Hydrodynamics, Heat Transfer & Thermal Management, Multiphase Flow, Fluid-Structure

Interaction (FSI), Combustion & Reacting Flows, Aeroacoustics, Electrochemistry, and Electromagnetics. STARCCM+ is recommended. But if your interest is complex Structural dynamics, durability, or Motion analysis, etc. better to go with other tools.

Verified User

Manager in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

4 years of experience

Multiphase and thermal review of STAR CCM capabilities.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use STAR CCM+ to evaluate critical performance parameters such as pressure drop, particle capture efficiency, and Dust holding capacity for automotive Air filtration systems, as well as to predict temperature, power, and torque values for Headlights, taillights, and Polymer body panels. By using STAR CCM+, we are able to evaluate the thermal performance of lighting components and ensure that the materials being used are able to withstand the critical temperature conditions that the lighting systems operate in.

Pros

Meshing is very easy to do in STAR CCM+
Post-processing results is also very intuitive, making extracting results very enjoyable and easy to use.
The Advanced rendering options that are available in STAR CCM+ can really help make very well-generated videos that can make the simulation easy to visualize, share with non-technical engineers, and showcase the study done.

Cons

Multibody meshing controls can be a bit more easy to use.
Geometry clean up with the 3D CAD modifier could be a bit more easy to use.
Would prefer a dark mode option to be added to STAR CCM+

Likelihood to Recommend

For my personal use case, I found that STAR CCM+ was extremely easy to use, learn, and set up cases for Lagrangian particle tracking cases. Each option was easily found, and parameters to fine-tune the cases were very simple to execute. I had to create a custom field function with a nested If-else loop to account for particle capture on the filter media surface. Setting this up was very easy, and the reference material provided by STAR CCM+ was helpful. Sometimes, on the older version of STAR CCM+, when visualizing the volume mesh, some cells tend to disappear; this shows up even when plotting contour plots on the same section plane. This is improved in the newer version of STAR CCM+.

sahil Kukian

Sr. CoC Engineer in Engineering at Varroc Engineering Limited (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 12, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm the sole user for that product, but of course, the requirements and the design comes from other teams. And then I carry out the simulation. So I carry out the task with Star-CCM+ and then I give my verdict to those teams, along with any suggestions to improve our technology and products.

Pros

Meshing, for instance, it's very easy to mesh, try different approaches to meshing. Traditionally that's a very difficult job, but in STAR-CCM+ it makes it very easy and very reliable. Post-processing also is very nice and in all the modeling, the physics that you can carry out and you can simulate is also very, very nice. I tried to move to the priorities that does a good job. All in all, it's a very good software.

Cons

Maybe a little bit on the automation side and if you want to script something, if you want to automate procedures, that happens through every simulation round that you have. That part could be a little bit cumbersome right now, depending on the operating system that you use.
Introducing the software on other platforms like Mac OSS.

Likelihood to Recommend

The applications that I have been using it with in terms of flow and energy and temperature distributions and coupled solvers, segregated solvers, these kind of areas if you need that, those kind of solvers, it's very good. It's very robust. Maybe on the combustion side, it could improve, especially if you have these kind of tabulated solvers that you want to use, not the detailed chemistry, then it becomes very difficult to get some results from it. And do you trust the results or not? That's always the question on that kind of application, something that I could think of really fast.

Armin Narimanzadeh

Senior Thermofluids Expert at Convion (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Excellent simulation tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Thermal analysis of aircraft engine nacelles. Ventilation analysis, engine component cooling. Use conduction, convection and radiation in conjugated heat transfer analysis.

Pros

Thermal analysis
Aerothermal analysis
heat exchangers

Cons

Graphical interface
Training

Likelihood to Recommend

It is appropriate for steady state thermal management problems

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

good

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

July 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

for external aero

Pros

accuracy
easy
fast

Cons

wing aero

Likelihood to Recommend

external is best. nor suitable for electronic cooling

burak demiroz

plm eng;neer in Engineering at tusas (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

happy user, looking forward to future updates and capabilities

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

analysis of multiphysics problems, engineering services, all kinds of problems

Pros

simulation tree
client-server
meshing

Cons

stability on linux
sph

Likelihood to Recommend

generally quite happy, software does crash sometimes which can be very annoying

Verified User

Analyst (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ customer review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

product optimization, helping in faster development of our products, reducing time to market, first time right testing approach

Pros

easy to use
fast solver
well documented

Cons

the cad interface
the measurement tool

Likelihood to Recommend

good for checking flow and pressure drop

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

How to support the biggest in industry on technological developments

Rating: 7 out of 10

January 30, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

All flow simulations that are relevant for topics that might have direct impact on product performance. So optical column conditioning, outgassing and deposition rates, defectivity, Optics Life time, Thermal and pressure stability.

Pros

Multiphase Flow
Meshing capabilities for industrial problems
CAD import from NX
User Interface
Postprocessing & visualization

Cons

Implementing physics like Cox-Voinov model
Mesh related stability issues
Chemical & plasma physics
Integration with other products from Siemens (similar level as we have with Abacus)
Speed up the lagrangian solver
Improved guidence on uFluidics & evaporation models
Interoperability (HEEDS, AMEsim, System Modelling Workbench but also with non siemens products and open source codes required for LBM, DSMC, PIC, DFT...

Likelihood to Recommend

We still are not able to do without other sw. There are plenty of use cases that we are more or less forced to allow people to use sw from the competition. Training needs to be updated. e.g. the meshing course is outdated and should contain all aspects like AMR, Overset, Boundary layer, quiality checks and service repair (preferably send back to TC if there already not good). Help documentation needs to be updated with LL and current state of the art (including best practices evaporation, chemical librarry, new meshing strategies, boundary slip etc etc.) Using STAR-NX (guidence on where best to do what related to CAD NX vs STAR). Making use of Amesim HEEDS in order to do ROM.

Evert van Vliet

Manager Flow Modelling in Research & Development at ASML (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

11 years of experience

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Simcenter is now industry leader, growing in a fast pace to catch entire market

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for vehicle and engine cfd simulations. Majorly for underhood, underbody, cabin, and thermal problems. Engine wise CHT, air flow and etc. With the help of the design optimization module, we are able to solve the frequent problems that occur during the performance evaluations. It makes the Engineer role easy at the organizational level.

Pros

Physics setup
Postprocess
Automation tool
Parallel computing

Cons

File size will be very big to handle.

Likelihood to Recommend

Star-ccm is well suited for nonlinear and unsteady problems. It solves thermal problems very well. The easy part is that we can customize as per customer choice. The test and Cae correlation for cfd problems will match exactly with Starcom. We have done a lot of procedures with siemens by giving projects to them directly, which helps us to focus on our vehicle development.

Naresh kumar Gunda

Head of the section in Research & Development at HMIE (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

Single-GUI Multiphysics with script-free automation capability

Rating: 10 out of 10

July 1, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Simcenter STAR-CCM+ as a general-purpose CFD solver for things like cooling systems, lube systems, exhaust systems, external hydrodynamics, etc. It is extremely user-friendly, easy to automate, and very capable as a single-tool multi-physics solver.

Pros

Automation without the need for scripting
Multi-physics sims in single GUI (such as FSI)
Strong multi-phase capabilities (air, water, cavitation, etc.)
Flexible licensing

Cons

Scripting language is Java, not Python (for instances that built-in automation doesn't cover)
Error messages not always the most helpful
Cannot change simulation settings without license

Likelihood to Recommend

Very good at running large parametric studies or design optimizations where pre/post-processing can be automated without scripting. Mesh generation is very automated and easy to use. Single-GUI multi-physics (CFD, FEA, electromagnetics, etc.) makes running complex sims such as fluid-structure interaction very straightforward and less error-prone. It is a very general solver with tons of capability; therefore, the learning curve can be quite steep for someone without simulation experience.

Andrew Gunderson

CFD Engineer in Engineering at Mercury Marine (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Multiphase and thermal review of STAR CCM capabilities.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Meshing is very easy to do in STAR CCM+
Post-processing results is also very intuitive, making extracting results very enjoyable and easy to use.
The Advanced rendering options that are available in STAR CCM+ can really help make very well-generated videos that can make the simulation easy to visualize, share with non-technical engineers, and showcase the study done.

Cons

Multibody meshing controls can be a bit more easy to use.
Geometry clean up with the 3D CAD modifier could be a bit more easy to use.
Would prefer a dark mode option to be added to STAR CCM+

Likelihood to Recommend

sahil Kukian

Sr. CoC Engineer in Engineering at Varroc Engineering Limited (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience