In what case will GGI bring the accurate results for unmatched nodes?
 

Hi, everyone.

Thanks for your time to look at this question. I'm thinking about using GGI for the unmatched nodes interface between fluid-fluid domain for my case. May I ask in what case will GGI bring accurate results? ( I searched for this at the tutorial but didn't find any answer. :()

Best regards and many thanks again,
lnk

Yes, GGIs are quite accurate. It is very unusual for a GGI to introduce enough error into a simulation to be a problem.

But you can look at the comments at this link about GGI. There should be some cases that GGI bring low accuracy results. May I ask how to know GGI works well or not?

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ans...eration-2.html

You should compare this to a known accurate or analytical answer. If it has some distortion adjacent to the interface but is accurate away from it then that is fine for most users. Also I think you will find the distortion is amplified by the way the contours are drawn in CFD-Post.

So "low accuracy" is dependant on what you are looking for accuracy in. If you need it to get the correct pressure drop across something you will almost certainly find it OK. If you need smooth temperature contours in a CHT body then it might not be so appropriate.

But sweeping comments like "GGIs are low accuracy" are not helpful. But there are cases when they will cause problems.

I posted this comment in the context of a tedious hexa-mesh generation in a difficult geometry.
I just thought it would be a pity to spend several days creating a block-stuctured mesh and then using an interface to sew together non-matching parts of the mesh.

So if I'm only looking for pressure drop, I can always use GGI without considering the inaccuracy it might bring. Right?

No, checking the GGI interface for accuracy in your specific case is always a good idea. If you do not trust it then you should check it.

Hi

• got a similar problems in a GGI-Interface in one of my last simulations and there were also unsteady contour lines for e.g. (total-)pressure at a different location

-> can i assume that if these unsteady contour lines only appear at one "very ugly to mesh geo-part" and the unsteadyness isn't that sever, the error in my solution isn't that significant?

• somewhere else in this forum i read about the difference in using massFlowAve()@... and areaAve()@... . what i also noticed is there is a noticeable difference between e.g. massFlowAve()@REGION:... and massFlowAve()@Plane... (<- created plane in cfx-post=exactly the same area as REGION:...)

->anyone knows where this comes from? :confused:

my advice is to always use different ways to analyze your results. also create monitor points through different expressions and check if they change over time(steady state sim) ...
(sometimes i get gigantic pressuredrop fluctuations over my fluid-domain when i evaluate with massFlowAve()@REGION:... - even if the end result via massFlowAve()@Plane is very plausible)

It is always best to test things you are suspicious of for accuracy in your case. So I would compare a GGI simulation versus one without the GGI and see if the accuracy is acceptable. If generating the non-GGI mesh is impossible (that is why you put the GGI in there in the first place :) ) then dream up a simple little test case which uses the same physics and fundamental flow, but is simple enough to run with and without the GGI. If the GGI is acceptable in the simple test case then it will be OK for the real simulation.