STAR-CCM+, getting started

I’ve been granted a scholarship at the CMT in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The CAE software I will be using for this project is STAR-CCM+ running on Linux, kubuntu to be more precise, because that is the OS I have currently installed in my laptop. Installing the software was quite easy.

Figure 1. Installation window in Linux.

Figure 1. Installation window in Linux.

The problem is making it run. First of all I had to install some additional libraries like lib64gcc to be able to run ./lmadmin, but then I got stuck at

./starccm+: 169: ./starenv: Syntax error: redirection unexpected

Well, while I try to figure out what’s causing that error in my laptop, I installed the Windows version in my PC under Windows 7. Both operating systems are 64 bit editions.

Update 1: I got rid of the Syntax error by changing the interpreter from #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash in the starccm+ and starenv script files.

Update 2: I also had to install some 64-bit specific libraries but finally got to start with the tutorial.

Figure 2. STAR-CCM+ with the contours of the scalar display for Mach number, finished solution.

Figure 2. STAR-CCM+ with the contours of the scalar display for Mach number, finished solution.