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Old   June 17, 2014, 08:14
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Hey everyone.

I'm modelling a 2d aerofoil in air and I had convergence (~2500 iterations) when using a courser mesh so I refined the mesh to check for mesh independence. Now however the residuals seem to fluctuating in a pattern and the solution is not converging by 10000 iterations. Can anyone tell me how this could be happening and what I can do to fix it?

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Old   June 19, 2014, 04:03
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I have since found out this numerical noise with both high and low frequency oscillations and solved the problem by turning on the SA turbulence model.

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