Entries for August 27, 2012

Originally Posted by LuckyTran

No magic here, that's what's supposed to happen. Unless your solution is diverging, do not bother with the under-relaxation factors. If it is diverging, do as you did, lower the factors until you can a stable solution, and then raise them again if possible. If not, then it is a hint that there is an inherent stability issues in the problem you are trying to solve or perhaps one of your modeling parameters is incorrect.

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Originally Posted by Phil
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Each of the variables(mass,mom,density) represents an equation the solver is trying to solve. Each iteration the values obtained for the variables should get closer and closer together - converge. FOR SIMPLE PROBLEMS ESPECIALLY COLD FLOWS WITHOUT COMBUSTION YOU SHOULD SIMPLY KEEP THE RELAXATION FACTORS AT DEFAULT.

Sometimes for many many reasons the solution can become unstable so a relaxation factor is used - takes part of value from previous iteration