Star-CD

Overview

STAR-CD is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) environment. It can simulate turbulence, heat transfer, and reacting and multiphase flows. Version 4.16.034 is available.

Restrictions on use

Only users who have been added to the Star-CD group can run the application. Owing to licence restrictions, only users from the School of MACE can be added to this group. Requests to be added to the Star-CD group should be emailed to its-ri-team@manchester.ac.uk.

Set up procedure

For most applications installed on the CSF, the set up procedure involves the use of an environment module. This is not currently the case for Star-CD. For Star-CD, users should make use of the setstar set up script which is part of the installation as detailed in the examples given below.

Running the application

Currently, use of Star-CD in batch mode only is supported; no attempt should be made to use Star-CD on the CSF by means of its GUI.

Example Job Submission

#!/bin/bash

#$ -S /bin/bash
#$ -cwd
#$ -pe orte-32-ib.pe 64
    #
    # -- For smaller jobs:  "#$ -pe orte-32-ib.pe 32".
    #

export STARINI="Default"

. /opt/gridware/apps/binapps/starcd/4.16.034/etc/setstar

echo " "
echo "Command line is:"
echo "star $PNP_JOBNODES"
star $PNP_JOBNODES 
echo " "

exit_on_error $?

Available Parallel Environments for Star-CD

When submitting Star-CD jobs to the batch system, either orte-24-ib.pe or orte-32-ib.pe should be used. This ensures proper allocation of Star-CD processes to compute nodes.

Further Information

Further information on Star-CD and other CFD applications may be found by visiting the MACE CFD Forum.