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13 years 7 months ago #4577 by florante
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Hi all,

I'm simulating a simple pipe flow with cs. the result was so strange that there are velocity vectors so large and pointing on a different direction .

Anybody van help on what went wrong with the calculation?

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Florante<br /><br />Post edited by: florante, at: 2010/08/20 10:37
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13 years 7 months ago #4578 by Claus
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I think if you look in the 'listing' file you'll find that the solution hasn't converged well. Look for high values under 'derive'.
This can happen for a variety of reasons - how is the setup?

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Claus

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13 years 7 months ago #4579 by florante
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Hi Clause,

Here are two items that are diverging.
[code:1]
Max Values
TurbEner : 0.38100 E+67
Dissip : 0.13786 E+73
[/code:1]

The set up is

Pipe : D=100mm L=200mm

Turbulence mode : k-e
inlet : v=-1m/s T=25oC
Wall : -2 (is this W/m^2 or just watts?)

Reference time step : 0.1s

Mesh salome : Netgen 3D (max size :0.005 fine, second order, optimized)

When I lower the velocity, say to the order of 0.01-0.05 m/s, the calculation goes well. It seems that higher Velocity makes the TurbEner divergent. If this is the case, which parameters do I need to adjust to make TurbEner convergent? or my mesh need more refining or its too fine already ?

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Flornate

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13 years 7 months ago #4582 by Yvan Fournier
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Hello,

You may simply be using a time step too large for your mesh. What is the CFL (Courant) number in your case ? The CFD should ideally remain under 5, and a CFL above 20 is definitely risky. If your cell size is in the range of 0.005 meters, with a velocity of 1 m/s, your CFL with a time step of 0.1 s is 1x0.1/0.005 = 20.
You may check th CFL postprocessing with a visualization tool, as the corresponding field is output by default.

Another possible remedy in case of a distorted mesh (often useful for tetrahedral meshes, especially when not all tetrahedra are of good quality) is to add a bit (0.9) of relaxation of pressure increase.

Finally, if you have a tetrahedral mesh with no prism boundary layer, the gradient reconstruction near the wall may not be great, and this may not play well with the turbulence wall model. There are also several wall models to choose from, so testing the sensitivity to those may help, as well as activating/deactivating reconstruction of fluxes at boundaries. All these options should be accessible through the GUI.

Regards,

Yvan

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13 years 7 months ago #4589 by florante
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Thanks Yvan!

I tried to fine tune the time steps now. But because some of the errors occur at 15s in the simulation, I have a hard time verifying if I will not get the same error when I hit the same time frame. But checking the the trend so far, the courant numbers are somewhere in 10-15 max compared to the previous one which are in the range of 65.

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Florante

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13 years 1 month ago #5313 by bean
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Did you succeed step 2?

In that case, please challenge step 3 again.

I rewrote the description in detail.

I am sorry, it is not possible to check it by downloading an individual file

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