Composition driven free convection
Hello.
I am performing CFD-calculations on a case with two connected vessels in which natural convection is important, driven by composition not by temperature differences. Using Rayleigh- and Grashof-numbers, the expected regime is fully turbulent. However, this is only a local phenomena. Far away, but still relevant, conditions are laminar. The problem I am facing is that the transient calculations suddenly diverge because epsilon becomes small and the turbulent viscosity large (standard k-epsilon). I tried the fully deferred correction but this doesn't help. Does anyone have experience with such a case? Then could you share some proper settings in terms of: - convergence criterium (epsilon, velocities?) - turbulence model (does a low reynolds turbulence model help?) - grid quality (I know rectangular is preferable but then I will end up with millions of cells) - differencing scheme (I don't expect any influence) - anything else (like: number of iterations of a specific equation?) Every help or suggestion is appreciated, P.Fonteijn. |
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