STAR-CD

1. Platforms, prices, and company
• UNIX (HP, SGI, IBM, Sun), Windows-NT or Linux on high-end Intel Pentium PCs. For larger-scale calculations, STAR-CD can be migrated seamlessly as 'STAR-HPC' to any  multiple-CPU machine.
• Price info not available
• Computational Dynamics LTD : http://www.cd.co.uk/products/index.htm
2. Applications
• STAR-CD is a powerful multipurpose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code that can assist you through the complete design and development process.
• The package includes a highly functional pre-/post-processor, PROSTAR, with its Graphical User Interface and links to other CAE systems. Also available is the automatic meshing tool pro*am that can dramatically reduce your problem set up time.
3. Examples/Samples
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis: http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/~jtchu/cfd.html
• A 3D example: http://www.cd.co.uk/products/imgs/expanded/prostar3.html
• Electrical and Electronics application: http://www.cd.co.uk/applications/electronics.htm
• Additional examples/samples: http://www.adapco-online.com
4. Functions
• Modeling
• Not only does STAR-CD provide a rich source of  models for turbulence, combustion, radiation and multiphase physics; it stands alone in offering all models on all mesh types.
• Turbulent, Swirling and rotating flows, Periodic flows, with and without heat transfer
• Multiple heterogeneous and homogeneous chemical reaction.
• Free surface modelling and cavitation Combustion of gaseous, liquid and solid (e.g.coal) fuels
• Translation, roatation
• Multiple rotational reference frames, for analysis of turbo-machinery problems
• Mesh
• It is capable of dealing with unstructured meshes and cell shapes ranging from tetrahedra and prisms to general polyhedra
• Dynamic mesh movement
• Rendering
• Cameras: moveable
• Flexible geometry handling, including mixed tetrahedral and polyhedral cells.
• Embedded refinement, for enhancing local resolution and adaptive error control
• Arbitrary mesh block interfacing to facilitate mesh generation and optimisation
• Animation
• The entire produce is about fluid field animation
• Dynamic mesh movement, for problems such as reciprocating engines
• Time-dependent sliding mesh with arbitrary interfacing and cyclic boundaries
• File formats
• IGES, VDA, STL, ANSYS, PATRAN, NASTRAN, and PLOT3D
5. Web Resources
• Official site: http://www.cd.co.uk/products/index.htm
• Star-CD europort: http://www.gmd.de/SCAI/europort-1/A5.HTM
• North American support: http://www.adapco.com/
• A general description: http://www.adapco.com/starcd/starcd.htm