CFD Applications | CAE Applications | Environmental Applications

CFD and CAE Application Areas
Aerospace
Automotive
Biomedical
Buildings
Chemical
Electronics
Energy
Environmental
Marine
Oil and Gas
Turbomachinery

CD-adapco Products
STAR-CCM+
STAR-CD
STAR-CAD Series
STAR-View+
STAR-Cast

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es-ice
es-aftertreatment
es-pemfc
es-sofc

Environmental Applications

The quality of the local atmospheric and hydrological environment has important short and long term implications for health and safety. STAR-CCM+ enables strategies for avoidance and mitigation of problems to be explored that would be impractical to replicate physically; for example forest fires. In the hydrological arena, STAR-CCM+ has been widely used to understand and mitigate phenomena such as water flows that cause structural damage and erosion.

In industry, STAR-CCM+ can help to devise systems that minimize the production of chemical, NOx, smoke and thermal effluents. Then, downstream of the polluting event, it can be used to improve aftertreatment methods, and to predict the ultimate dispersion of pollution in to the environment.

Collaborative Projects

CD-adapco and NCAS (2006-2013) have agreed exclusive partnership terms that will lead to an urban scale weather modelling code. The prediction methodology, using the UK Met Office's operational Universal Modelling code to drive the localized CFD models and building and street-level scales, is hoped to enable five-day forecasting of urban air quality, dispersion and heat transfer. NCAS teams, initially at the Universities of Southampton and Reading, led by Professors Ian Castro and Stephen Belcher, respectively, are now concentrating on further exploitation of CD-adapco's modelling techniques.