STAR-CAD Series V4.02 Released

The STAR-CAD Series enables design and project engineers to undertake basic flow simulations, even if they lack experience in traditional CFD analysis. Each of these CAD-specific applications enables you to set up and run simulations from within your CAD environment. Because of full associativity with the model's geometry, any design changes made in response to simulation results are reflected in the analysis solution almost immediately. You can update solutions with the click of a button, and solutions store within the model, making them accessible to downstream users. You can also store your STAR-CAD Series solutions directly in your PDM system, which, according to the company, no other CAD-integrated solution can handle at this time.

STAR-CAD Series V4.02 offers such new features as additional boundary conditions and external thermal treatments as well as a volume meshing strategy for assemblies. V4.02 provides faster mesh generation and solver speeds than earlier versions, and it offers improvements to the turbulence modeling that reduce grid sensitivity. The addition of HTML-based reporting improves the reporting of engineering quantities. Interactive, 3D results files can now be sent direct to your manager or client with a freeware visualization utility, enabling the fast and efficient communication of flow simulation data.