Star Ccm Software
Deployed effectively, the CD-Adapco STAR CCM+ Fluid Dynamics software, mesh solver embedded in the Star CCM CFD Meshing Software and post-processing tools in each Latest Software version can be used to handle high processing load, get reliable results, solve and optimize product work design through multiple iterations.
| Privately Held | |
| Industry | |
|---|---|
| Founded | Melville, NY (1980) |
| Headquarters | Melville, NY USA |
| Products | STAR-CCM+ STAR-CD STAR-Design |
| Owner | Peter Steven MacDonald, President (deceased 2015) |
Number of employees | ~900 (2016) working at 34 different offices across the globe. |
| Website | www.cd-adapco.com |
CD-adapco (Computational Dynamics-Analysis & Design Application Company Ltd) was a multinational computer software company that authors and distributes applications used for computer-aided engineering, best known for its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) products.[1][2][3]
In their 2009 annual user conference, CD-adapco announced that the company had grown 22% in 2008, and they expected similar results in 2009.[1] Professional Engineering Magazine described this as 'recession-proof performance' and went on to point out that this success is especially noteworthy considering that many of the company's customers are in the automotive industry, a sector of the economy that was, at the time, suffering record low sales levels.[1] During the financial downturn of 2009, CD-adapco launched their 'No Engineer Left Behind' program, which provided free STAR-CCM+ licenses and training for displaced and unemployed engineers.[4]In April 2016, Siemens acquired CD-adapco for 970 million USD.
- 1Products
- 2Technology
- 3Siemens
Products[edit]
STAR-CD[edit]
CD-adapco's legacy CFD package, STAR-CD, was praised by Renault automotive design engineers as a 'world class design package'. Nearly 75% of the points won during the 2005 Formula One season were awarded to drivers of cars that were designed with STAR-CD.[3]
STAR-CCM+[edit]
In 2004, CD-adapco opted to shift their attention from improving STAR-CD to completely rewriting their computational fluid dynamics (CFD) algorithms and tools. The company gambled that in the end, starting from a 'blank slate' with a group of experts would produce a better result than continuing to work improvements into their old products[5] In early 2004, the company introduced this new product, STAR-CCM+, the 'CCM' standing for 'computational continuum mechanics'.[6][7] The application employs a client-server architecture, to allow users to solve problems from a lightweight computer, such as a laptop, while the computationally expensive math is done on a remote machine. This substantially reduces the need for expensive desktop computers—a requirement of some other similar packages[8]
Even in periods of major economic downturn, few customers cut back on annual licenses.[1] CD-adapco has speculated that their product's success has been partially because their application was designed from the start to simultaneously solve fluid flow and heat transfer problems. Competing products often consist of separate solvers coupled together, which requires that both be kept in agreement; a time consuming complication that degrades accuracy.[1]
STAR-CAD[edit]
STAR-CAD is a range of PLM-embedded tools that allows engineers to perform CFD analysis from within their company's chosen CAD environment. STAR-CAD integrates with Catia, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks and NX.[9]
Fuel Cells[edit]
In a partnership with the United States Department of Energy, CD-adapco developed an expert system to model and analyze solid oxide fuel cells[10]
Technology[edit]
Meshing of Computational Domain[edit]
The first 'official release' of STAR-CCM+ included the world's first commercially available polyhedral meshing algorithm.[11] The use of a polyhedral mesh has proven to be more accurate for fluid-flow problems than a hexahedral or tetrahedral mesh of a similar size (number of cells),[12] but is considerably more difficult to create.[12]
Automatic Surface Repair[edit]
Included in STAR-CCM+ is a tool called a 'surface wrapper', which 'shrink wraps' a user's CAD geometry, filling any holes, overlaps or cracks.[13] The company says that this feature cuts geometry preparation time down from days to minutes.[13]
Siemens[edit]
2016 Acquisition[edit]
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Siemens and CD-adapco have entered into a stock purchase agreement for the acquisition of CD-adapco by Siemens for a purchase price of $970 million.[14]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdeBen Sampson (April 29, 2009). 'Growth Industry'. Professional Engineering Magazine.
- ^'Garuda, the car that runs 180km per litre!'.
- ^ abTotal F1. 'CD-Adapco helps Renault to success'.
- ^DE Editors (March 6, 2009). 'CD-adapco Launches No Engineer Left Behind Program for Displaced and Unemployed Engineers'. Desktop Engineering.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- ^'CD-adapco Group Releases STAR-CCM+'. May 6, 2004.
- ^Gould, Lawrence S. (October 1, 2004). 'The trends in CFD are continuous, dynamic, and real'. Automotive Design & Production. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
- ^CFD Review. 'STAR-CCM+ V2.08: Cranking Up the Heat'.
- ^Larry Gould. 'The Trends In CFD Are Continuous, Dynamic, And Real'. Automotive Design and Production. Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^Simulation environments ease CFD analysis, Engineering Talk, July 9, 2007
- ^AutomotiveWorld. 'Simulation software for fuel cell development'. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
- ^'CD-adapco Releases STAR-CCM+ Box Set'. CFD Review. October 18, 2005.
- ^ abFranco Brezzi and Konstantin Lipnikov and Mikhail Shashkov, New Discretization Methodology for Diffusion Problems on Polyhedral Meshes(PDF)
- ^ ab'Products, April 2007'. Desktop Engineering Magazine. April 2007. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
- ^Software, Siemens Product Lifecycle Management. 'Siemens to Acquire Simulation Software Supplier CD-adapco: Siemens PLM Software'. plm.automation.siemens.com. Retrieved 2017-10-05.