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How to support the biggest in industry on technological developments
January 30, 2023

How to support the biggest in industry on technological developments

Evert van Vliet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Simcenter STAR-CCM+

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.
  • Multiphase Flow
  • Meshing capabilities for industrial problems
  • CAD import from NX
  • User Interface
  • Postprocessing & visualization
  • 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...
  • Setting up from scratch and the ability to use certain .sim as golden reference set's is helping a lot (related to process automation)
  • AMR and overset are powerfull for industrial application
Our designated support engineers do a proper job.
On the outdated Help file and training material there is a lot to gain

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

Not sure

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

No

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

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 e.g. the meshing course is outdated and should contain all aspects like AMR, Overset, Boundary layer, quiality checks and service repair (preferably send back to TC if there already not good).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.