Let's say I want to run several STAR-CD or CCM+ simulations during the weekend and im not at my PC.

Is it possible to stack the cases, so that STAR-CD or CCM+ automatically starts solving the next case when the criterions of the initial case is satisfied?

Any ideas/help is appriciated

1 - don't work on windows 2 - learn shell scripting (command 'wait') 3 - always 1 case per directory 4 - macros can even take care of the post-processing for you

I agree, windows is a seriously unfriendly environment for scripting

Well, actually it does work in windows..

combined batch and java.macro solves the problem..

This is for CCM+

bat-file:

"c:\Program Files\CD-adapco\STAR-CCM+ 2.04.008\starccm+.exe" -batch runit.java internals1.sim rename finish.sim finish_run1.sim

"c:\Program Files\CD-adapco\STAR-CCM+ 2.04.008\starccm+.exe" -batch runit.java internals2.sim rename finish.sim finish_run2.sim

"c:\Program Files\CD-adapco\STAR-CCM+ 2.04.008\starccm+.exe" -batch runit.java internals3.sim rename finish.sim finish_run3.sim

java-file:

// STAR-CCM+ macro: runit.java package macro;

import java.util.*;

import star.common.*; import star.base.neo.*;

public class runit extends StarMacro {

public void execute() {

Simulation simulation_0 =

getActiveSimulation();

Solution solution_0 =

simulation_0.getSolution();

//solution_0.clearSolution();

simulation_0.getSimulationIterator().run();

simulation_0.saveState(resolvePath("finish.sim"));

} }