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Which Reaction Models are available?

Depending on the physics of the reaction, a wide range of chemical reaction models are available in “STAR-CCM+”, for example whether the reaction is carried out in gas phase or liquid phase, and whether a catalyst is present. STAR-CCM+ is a multiphysics computational fluid dynamics software, which is part of Siemens PLM's Simcenter Portfolio of advanced engineering tools. Models that are supported include:

  • Gas Phase: Gas phase reactions may be simple combustion reactions, or reactions that take place inside tubes such as those in cracker furnaces where heat is supplied externally.
  • Liquid Phase: Liquid phase reactions may involve polymerization schemes or series-parallel liquid reactions with meso/micro mixing.
  • Custom Reactions: These involve enzymatic reactions, fermentation, as well as user coding.
  • Cases where detailed chemical kinetics of a reaction need to be developed, modified or modeled in ideal flow conditions, a dedicated tool called DARS is available.

Beyond off-the-shelf support for all these, the types of reactions that can be modeled in “STAR-CCM+” are virtually unlimited, thanks to the software’s field functions and user coding capabilities.

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