• Provides gradients with respect to mesh error estimates, mesh morpher control points (shape changes),
surface deformation, and flow parameters
• Supports adjoint-based topology optimization in conjunction with a level-set equation for material
distribution
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry models in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ support studies of ion transport along with chemical and
electrochemical reactions.
• Ion transport in fluids and solids, including coulombic effects
• Surface electrochemical reactions and heating at boundaries, interfaces, and in phasic porous media
• Bulk ion chemical reactions
• 3D micro-structural model for Li-Ion battery cells
• Electro-deposition coating
Plasma
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ includes electron transport to support studies of cold, non-thermal plasmas.
• Electron transport and energy
• Ion transport
• Reaction rates
Electromagnetism
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ contains electric potential and magnetic potential models that solve for the electric and
magnetic fields.
• Low-Frequency Electrodynamics
◦ Magnetic fields induced by electric currents, permanent magnets, and excitation coils
▪ Finite Element iterative solver for high-performance 3D computations
▪ Transverse magnetic modes for fast axisymmetric and 2D computations
◦ Electric current distribution
◦ Magnetic fields with harmonic time-dependence
• Electrostatics
• Airgap remeshing
• Multiphysics association
◦ Ohmic heating
◦ Magnetohydrodynamics
◦ 3D solid stress from Lorentz forces
Aeroacoustics
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ aeroacoustic models predict noise generation in fluid systems.
• Broadband noise source models
◦ Curle, Goldstein axisymmetric, Proudman, Lilley, and Linearized Euler Equation (LEE)
• Acoustic Perturbation Equation (APE) solver
• Far-field propagation using Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings
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