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Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based simulation software developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ allows the modeling and analysis of a range of engineering problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, stress, particulate flow, electomagnetics and related phenomena.

Formerly known as STAR-CCM+, the software was first developed by CD-adapco and was acquired by Siemens Digital Industries Software as part of the purchase of CD-adapco in 2016. It is now a part of the Simcenter Portfolio of software tools.

History
Development work on STAR-CCM+ was started after a decision was taken to design a new, integrated CFD tool to replace the existing product STAR-CD which had been developed during the 1980s and 1990s. During this time, STAR-CD had obtained a market leading position across a number of applications, most notably in the automotive industry. In 2005, at the time of the first release of STAR-CCM+, nearly 75% of all points scored during the 2005 Formula One World Championship were won in cars designed using STAR-CD.

STAR-CCM+ was first announced at the 2004 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference in Reno, Nevada. One of the unique features was a generalized polyhedral cell formulation, allowing the solver to handle any mesh type imported. The first official release included the world's first commercially available polyhedral mesher, a technology able to deliver model convergence up to ten times faster than an equivalent tetrahedral mesh.

Development
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is developed according to a continual improvement process, with a new version released every four months (in February, June and October). The program consists of a client-server architecture, implemented using object-oriented programming. The server executable is written in C++ and the client implemented in Java. This approach allows for the pre- and post-processing activities and the more demanding computation to be carried out on different hardware, if desired.

At the start of the 2019 calendar year, the numbering convention for Simcenter STAR-CCM+ versions was changed to match that used by other Siemens software products. The original numbering convention continues to denote the build number.

Usage
As of 2016, the customer base was approximately 3,200 accounts with 52% of licence sales attributed to the automotive industry, making Simcenter STAR-CCM+ the leading multiphysics solution in that market.