The identification and visualization of cells can be performed using threshold values in STAR-CCM+. Two main methods are available via which the above can be achieved:
This section will cover the use of the derived part threshold to identify cells in the mesh based on a single input criteria. Two techniques are available:
The cell set threshold options allow multiple threshold criteria to be defined for identifying cells, as well as providing additional tools for manipulating the cell collections.
Other than removing invalid cells, STAR-CCM+ does not currently have any volume mesh fixing tools to correct any problems you may find using the threshold checks. However, it may be useful to extract information such as the cell index ID or the location of the cell centroid in order for the cells to be more easily identified in the original pre-processing package. An example way of creating a XY plot of bad cells identified using a threshold is presented.