Importing the Mesh and Naming the Simulation

Start up STAR-CCM+ in a manner that is appropriate to your working environment and select the New Simulation option from the menu bar.

Continue by importing the mesh and naming the simulation. A polyhedral cell mesh has been prepared for this analysis and is stored in a .ccm format file.

Select File > Import... from the menus

In the Open dialog, simply navigate to the doc/tutorials/porousMedia subdirectory of your STAR-CCM+ installation directory and select the file catalyst.ccm.

Click the Open button to start the import. The Import Mesh Options dialog will appear. Select the following options:

Run mesh diagnostics after import

Open geometry scene after import

Ensure that the Don't show this dialog during import option is not selected and then click OK.

STAR-CCM+ will provide feedback on the import process, which will take a few seconds, in the Output window. Two mesh regions named Cells and Cells_1 will be created under the Regions node to represent the two parts of the solution domain. A geometry scene will also be created in the Graphics window.