Simcenter STAR-CCM+
An industry reference for CFD and multiphysics
From external aerodynamics to battery thermal management, STAR-CCM+ turns CFD from a specialist tool into everyday engineering.
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is the Siemens flagship for computational fluid dynamics, covering flow, heat transfer, multiphase, reacting flow, aeroacoustics, solid stress and electromagnetic heating. Its defining trait is automation: surface preparation, meshing and solver setup — much of what once required manual expert work — are now streamlined workflows.
That means CFD no longer has to be the preserve of a few specialists. Process engineers can run routine analyses after training, while enough depth remains for aeroacoustics, combustion and fluid-structure interaction.
Key capabilities
Automated meshing
Polyhedral and trimmed meshes generated automatically — robust on complex geometry and fast to produce.
Multiphysics coupling
Fluids, solids, chemistry, acoustics and EM heating coupled in one solver.
Design Manager
Built-in design exploration and optimisation — run batches and let it search.
Aeroacoustics
From source identification to propagation, for wind noise and aerodynamic noise.
Multiphase & reacting
VOF, Eulerian multiphase, discrete phase, fluidised beds and chemical reactions.
Post-processing
High-quality flow visualisation with animation, report templates and automated export.
What it delivers
- Automated meshing and workflows compress CFD turnaround from weeks to days
- Multiphysics in one solver — no manual coupling between tools
- Built-in optimisation removes trial-and-error guessing
- Strong visualisation makes results communicable to non-specialists
- Links with Simcenter 3D and Amesim to build a complete digital twin