What if your CFD simulations could run themselves, and anyone on your team could launch one with a double-click?
CFD gives engineers a detailed look inside their equipment, but most teams still run it by hand. Geometry cleanup, meshing, setup and reporting get repeated again and again, so CFD is often used on only 3-5 designs when it could guide everyday decisions. In this webinar, you'll see how an automated workflow removes that bottleneck. It frees your experts from repetitive setups, lets non-CFD engineers run simulations with no scripting, and takes you from a handful of trials to hundreds of design variations. Reports are generated automatically, and turnaround is 20-30% faster.
What You Will Walk Away With
- Improve efficiency for CFD engineers: Explore how automation can reduce repetitive setup and execution tasks
- Easy CFD for non-experts: run simulations with minimal intervention and no scripting
- How an automated workflow runs from start to finish, using a template of a CSV parameter file, preconfigured macros, a simulation file, and a double-click launcher, with a PowerPoint report generated automatically.
- Three case studies showing automation in action:
- Jet Mixer (Eductors and manifold)
- Bend with Baffles
- Liquid Distributor in a packed bed
- The business impact: lower cost, faster project delivery, better product performance and a competitive edge.
Is This Webinar for You?
If you work with process equipment or plant operations, yes. This session is especially useful for:
- CFD and simulation engineers: spend less time on repetitive setups
- Process and chemical engineers: get simulation insights without waiting for an expert
- R&D and design teams: test hundreds of design variations instead of 3-5
- Engineering managers and project leaders: get faster delivery at lower cost
- Engineering consultants: deliver consistent, repeatable quality across projects
- Anyone building a digital replica of process equipment: see how to get started
Why CFD Workflow Automation?
A typical CFD simulation involves geometry cleanup, meshing, solver setup and post-processing, and optimizing a design means repeating these steps across many nearly identical runs. Doing this by hand is slow, error-prone and needs simulation expertise, so teams often test only a few designs and CFD rarely shapes everyday decisions. Automating the workflow closes this gap. It frees experts to focus on engineering insight, and it lets non-CFD engineers run simulations with minimal intervention.
Manual vs Automated CFD workflow:
| Manual Workflow | Automated Workflow |
| Slow turnaround: Hours to a few weeks | Faster turnaround: 20-30% sooner |
| Prone to errors: Set-up and boundary condition | Higher accuracy: Standard templates, consistent quality and automated checks |
| Limited exploration: Typically, 3-5 design | Better efficiency: Hundreds of variations with minimal intervention. |
| Reliance on a few experts: knowledge stays with a small group of specialists | Expertise built into the template |
| Manual Reporting: results transferred from cloud or HPC and compiled by hand | Automatic reporting: runs on cloud and HPC, with reports accessible locally |
Tools Covered:
The session uses Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to demonstrate the CFD workflow automation. It keeps everything in one environment, from CAD and meshing to physics setup, solver and post-processing, so there is no data transfer between tools and the workflow stays simple. We will also cover its built-in parametric study capability, its automated meshing options, and its HPC support for parallel runs.
A Note on Who Does What:
Democratization of CFD workflow automation does not replace the CFD engineer; it helps them. The core physics and model building stay with the experts, who can now spend their time getting the right solution and interpreting the results rather than repeating setups.