new york and london, feb. 27, 2013  --  "the star-ccm+ v8 releases are specifically aimed at increasing engineering productivity, making the software even easier to use and interact with, and significantly reducing the time required to get a high-quality solution," said senior vp product management jean-claude ercolanelli. "star-ccm+ v8.02 is the first of our v8 releases to benefit from our investment in a dedicated user experience team, whose task is to dissect and improve every aspect of the software, resulting in more effective and more productive simulation engineers."

"new multi-disciplinary enhancements allow users to tackle a wider range of industrially relevant challenges," continued ercolanelli. "among these new features and enhancements is a new star-cast add-on, developed in collaboration with our partner, access, recognized experts in casting and metallurgy, which provides a comprehensive and intuitive process for performing multiphase casting simulation and brings automation and ease-of-use to casting and foundry processes."

usability related enhancements include:

• parts based meshing
• new surface preparation
• jtopen integration
• graphic user interface (gui) enhancements  

performance related enhancements include:

• lagrangian and dem dynamic load balancing
• improvements to the amg algorithm

expanded coverage includes:

• star-cast add-on
• the fluid film model can now be used with the moving reference frame (mrf) model
• the eulerian multiphase capability is improved
• a new co-simulation capability through coupling with amesim

full details of the enhancements can be found here: http://www.cd-adapco.com/news/2013/02-27_starccmv8.html

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