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Great variety of models and physics, cuts down on empirical tests
June 28, 2022

Great variety of models and physics, cuts down on empirical tests

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Simcenter STAR-CCM+

I use it to model two-phase fluid heat transfer with high fidelity modeling of nucleate boiling and related phenomena. It's in parallel or complete replacement to experimental testing that is difficult or not feasible to implement in a lab setting.
  • Variety of fluid physics models.
  • Amount of documentation and references gives a good starting point.
  • Fast and intuitive interface.
  • More generalized automation functions, some features are incompatible with scripting.
  • More state of the art numerical methods available.
  • Examples and documentation on created generalized user code to access back-end data.
  • Time saved in creating a inhouse code, tens and tens of hours.
  • Time saved in experimental setup, tens of hours.
  • Does add some time in testing to confirm star is doing what you think it's doing, but an overall net gain in productivity.

Do you think Simcenter STAR-CCM+ delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Simcenter STAR-CCM+'s feature set?

Yes

Did Simcenter STAR-CCM+ live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Simcenter STAR-CCM+ again?

Yes

For any single-phase flow problem, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ kills it, but for some hypersonic applications, you'd be better off with a specialized or in-house code. For multiphase modeling it has maybe 80% of models that exist, a few major recent innovations are lacking support (interface reconstruction methods for example) but Simcenter STAR-CCM+ does offer a variety of approaches that are popular in literature.