Large value in yplus
 

Hi friends.
I have a tunnel with two inlet and one outlet. yplus value is obtained 300,000!
Why this value is so large?
Is there every body help me?

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/cfx...om-outlet.html

check mesh units... !!!

Thanks.:)
But what do you mean check mesh units?
I used ANSYS Meshing not ICEM.

In CFX Pre. In which units did you create your model? was it in inches, mm or meters?

I checked my units in cfx-pre but they were correct.
I use k-e model and two phase model (Free surface model)
Also I used multizone with inflation but unfortunately y+ is still high (25000) and convergence is still low.(RMS~1e-4).
In your opinion why y+ is high?

Which mesh is better to use for my simulation Hexa or Tetra? I tried both of them but I wonder why results with tetra mesh are better! I it true to use tetra for this simulation?

Thanks for your advice.
Graceful, ali.

It's not really a matter of opinion is it? Reduce your first layer height in the inflation layer and your y+ will go down.

@jrunsten: Yes we can reduce the Y+ by reducing first cell height. But I always get such very high values whenever I have wrong dimensions or boundary conditions!!! Getting Y+ ~ 500-1000 is normal with coarse mesh but 300,000 :o

Yes it is very high :)
Seems like he have checked his setup, so I presumed that the first layer height is the only thing left

Thanks Sijal Ahmed and Josef for your responses.

I have modeled this work in steady state. Boundary and initial conditions are:
Boundary conditions:
Inlet1 (Water): Mass Flow Rate :232600kg/s
Inlet2 (Air): pressure=0 pa
Outlet: Pressure=0 pa

initial condition:
u,v,w=0
pressure:Automatic

Are these conditions incorrect?
I have following error and not disappear in the specific iteration for outlet!
"A wall has been placed at portion(s) of OUTLET and inlet2"


But in case y plus I do not know how determine first layer thickness.
I do not know Free stream velocity and Boundary layer length in the Y+ Wall Distance Estimation Tool. In addition my simulation is two phase flow and I do not know which density and Dynamic viscosity should be used? Water or Air.

In FAG is said:
"Multiphase modelling usually requires a higher mesh quality than single phase, and some multiphase models are very strict - for instance accurate surface tension modelling can require aspect ratios of less than 1.5, but simple flows can handle aspect ratios 10 or 100 times worse than this. Also note that high aspect ratio elements in prism layers does not necessarily cause problems as the element is aligned with the flow direction."

What value of aspect ratio is acceptable in my work?

Geomery is indicated:

Hi friends.
I used inflation with first layer thickness .01 m. My yplus is reduced and this is 8000, But it is high still. I can not reduce first layer thickness because of computer limitation.
I changed outlet boundary condition to opening and this way that notice disappeared finally. But yplus is not changed!
I do not know what should I do?! and I do not know Why my problem is not converged?! I'm really disappointed.:o:o:o

Is there every one help me?
Thank you in advance for your kindness.