STAR-CD software from CD-adapco is used for industrial CFD simulation. All versions of STAR-CD products (STAR-CD 3.x, STAR-CD 4, and CCM+) export to the EnSight format directly, i.e. an option is provided in the product to output data into EnSight Case format. In addition, EnSight supports the polyhedral cell shapes used by STAR-CD products. EnSight also supports the reading of STAR-CD particle track files. Contained within $CEI_HOME/ensight82/translators/starcd_file33 is a conversion routine to convert STAR-CD particle track files (.trk) to either steady state or transient into EnSight measured data.

Users of STAR-CD will find significant benefit when including EnSight in their analysis process, such as dynamic and interactive streamlines, keyframe animations, dynamic section cuts, multiple variable displays in a single window, multiple viewports (windows) interactively updated, flow feature extractions, and many others.

EnSight’s command script language permits batch operation, allowing integration into typical techniques used by STAR-CD users. In addition, EnSight can be driven through python scripts, allowing further integration into a batch or customizable environment. 

"We can read in everything from STAR-CD into EnSight, and even extract certain data not otherwise available,” says Francisco Campos, a consultant and CFD engineer for Icon.  “The impact of droplets on the surface, statistical quantities, droplet size and volumes – all of this can be brought into EnSight for high-end visualization.”

How to get your Star-CD data into EnSight

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Download the STAR-CD color palettes in EnSight format
Insert these color palettes into your .ensight8/palettes/ directory to color your geometry with the same color scale used by Pro-Star.

STAR-CD to EnSight Script Documentation

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