New York and London. June 23, 2011

CD-adapco is pleased to announce the release of STAR-CD and es-ice v4.16, the latest version of its comprehensive toolkit for engine simulation. CD-adapco's purpose is to help customers suceed through the application of engineering simulation: driving innovation in its products AND reducing the time and cost associated with bringing those products to market.

STAR-CD increases the potential for innovation through the addition and improvement of physical modeling capabilities, and reduce the time and cost of simulation with the introduction of powerful new automation capabilities.

Physical modeling capabilities

• Further improvement and new options and capabilities for the G-equation combustion model
• New active mode option for DARS-Knock for both ECFM-3Z and G-Equation
• Further validation and consolidation of other existing ICE related spray, combustion and emission models.

Improved mesh quality

Ongoing improvements to trimming, smoothing and prism layer technology leading to better quality meshes and increased solver robustness. Better quality prism layer meshing next to walls. Local mesh refinement for trimmed ICE meshes.

Automation

Ongoing improvement to 2D template generation improve the 2D uniformity and local mesh refinement in strategic areas of the engine is available to further help ease-of use and mesh quality. Automatic valve feature capturing.

Mesh replacement and solution mapping for moving mesh ICE applications

Further enhanced with more streamlined and clear setup process, making it easier to use and less prone to mistakes. The mesh-to-mesh mapping capability now covers all ICE related combustion and emission capabilities and has also been improved for further mapping accuracy.

Improved documentation:

New Best Practices document to help setup and running ICE simulations. Set of new tutorials covering more advance multiple cycle and cylinder simulations.

Try it out today!

For complete information on all new features in STAR-CD and es-ice v4.16 or to download it today please visit CD-adapco’s user services site or contact your local office.