writing in this article is questioned . please see the discussion on the talk page . august 2013 cd adapco type privately held industry cae software founded melville ny 1987 headquarters melville ny usa products star ccm star cd star design owner peter steven macdonald president number of employees 900 2016 working at 34 different offices across the globe . website www.cd adapco.com cd adapco computational dynamics analysis & design application company ltd is a multinational computer software company that authors and distributes applications used for computer aided engineering best known for its computational fluid dynamics cfd products . 1 2 3 in their 2009 annual user conference cd adapco announced that the company had grown 22 % in 2008 and they expected similar results in 2009 . 1 professional engineering magazine described this as recession proof performance and went on to point out that this success is especially noteworthy considering that many of the company s customers are in the automotive industry a sector of the economy that was at the time suffering record low sales levels . 1 during the financial downturn of 2009 cd adapco launched their no engineer left behind program which provided free star ccm licenses and training for displaced and unemployed engineers . 4 on april 2016 siemens acquired cd adapco for 970 million usd . contents 1 products 1.1 star cd 1.2 star ccm 1.3 star cad 1.4 fuel cells 2 technology 2.1 meshing of computational domain 2.2 automatic surface repair 3 see also 4 related software 5 references 6 external links products edit a screenshot of a fluid flow analysis being conducted in star ccm star cd edit cd adapco s legacy cfd package star cd was praised by renault automotive design engineers as a world class design package . nearly 75 % of the points won during the 2005 formula one season were awarded to drivers of cars that were designed with star cd . 3 star ccm edit in 2004 cd adapco opted to shift their attention from improving star cd to completely rewriting their computational fluid dynamics cfd algorithms and tools . the company gambled that in the end starting from a blank slate with a group of experts would produce a better result than continuing to work improvements into their old products 5 in early 2004 the company introduced this new product star ccm the ccm standing for computational continuum mechanics . 6 7 the application employs a client server architecture to allow users to solve problems from a lightweight computer such as a laptop while the computationally expensive math is done on a remote machine . this substantially reduces the need for expensive desktop computers a requirement of some other similar packages 8 even in periods of major economic downturn few customers cut back on annual licenses . 1 cd adapco has speculated that their product s success has been partially because their application was designed from the start to simultaneously solve fluid flow and heat transfer problems . competing products often consist of separate solvers coupled together which requires that both be kept in agreement ; a time consuming complication that degrades accuracy . 1 star cad edit star cad is a range of plm embedded tools that allows engineers to perform cfd analysis from within their company s chosen cad environment . star cad integrates with catia pro engineer solidworks and nx . 9 fuel cells edit in a partnership with the united states department of energy cd adapco developed an expert system to model and analyze solid oxide fuel cells 10 technology edit a simple valve discretized into finite volume cells using cd adapco s polyhedral mesher meshing of computational domain edit the first official release of star ccm included the world s first commercially available polyhedral meshing algorithm . 11 the use of a polyhedral mesh has proven to be more accurate for fluid flow problems than a hexahedral or tetrahedral mesh of a similar size number of cells 12 but is considerably more difficult to create . 12 automatic surface repair edit included in star ccm is a tool called a surface wrapper which shrink wraps a user s cad geometry filling any holes overlaps or cracks . 13 the company says that this feature cuts geometry preparation time down from days to minutes . 13 see also edit computational fluid dynamics finite element analysis computer simulation computer aided design computer aided engineering related software edit adina cfd proprietary software advanced simulation library open source agpl ansys cfx proprietary software ansys fluent proprietary software featool multiphysics 14 kiva 3v kiva 4 and kiva 4mpi proprietary software numeca proprietary software relap5 3d proprietary software openfoam gpl su2 code lgpl code saturne gpl comsol proprietary software references edit a b c d e ben sampson april 29 2009 . growth industry . professional engineering magazine . garuda the car that runs 180km per litre . a b total f1 . cd adapco helps renault to success . de editors march 6 2009 . cd adapco launches no engineer left behind program for displaced and unemployed engineers . desktop engineering . cd adapco group releases star ccm . may 6 2004 . gould lawrence s. october 1 2004 . the trends in cfd are continuous dynamic and real . automotive design & production . retrieved october 1 2009 . cfd review . star ccm v2 .08 cranking up the heat . larry gould . the trends in cfd are continuous dynamic and real . automotive design and production . simulation environments ease cfd analysis engineering talk july 9 2007 external link in publisher help automotiveworld . simulation software for fuel cell development . retrieved october 1 2009 . cd adapco releases star ccm box set . cfd review . october 18 2005 . external link in publisher help a b franco brezzi and konstantin lipnikov and mikhail shashkov new discretization methodology for diffusion problems on polyhedral meshes pdf a b products april 2007 . desktop engineering magazine . april 2007 . retrieved october 15 2009 . featool multiphysics homepage external links edit cd adapco company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cd adapco & oldid 731643441 categories companies based in suffolk county new yorkcompanies established in 1987privately held companies based in new yorksoftware companies based in new yorkhidden categories cs1 errors external linksarticles with minor pov problems from august 2013all articles with minor pov problems navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 26 july 2016 at 16 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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