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Old   August 1, 2002, 08:05
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Dear All,

I am experience convergence problems with my engergy and continuity. No matter how short time step I set, the residuals of energy and continuity will be reduce less that 1.5e-3. After 150 iterations, they seem to level to a steady value. Does anyone have any adice of what to do? Many thanks in advance.

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Old   August 1, 2002, 09:17
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They are leveling out to a constant value around 1.5e-3 and you're talking about convergence-problems???

--don't thrust only on residuals; monitor something else --what about your mass-balance? Is it ok? same for heat-balance --is your mesh of good quality?

What ere you simulating? You're talking about time-steps and 150 iterations? Do you mean you have 150 iterations for each time-step?

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Old   August 1, 2002, 09:35
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Thanks Laika,

The convergence criteria was set to 1E-3 at default. In 2D, I am simulating a normally oscillating wall parallel to a stationary wall with a thin, long air gap, two ends are open to ambient. The frequency of the oscillation was 2kHz, small amplitude of 5.7micons. I divided 1 cycle to 100 time steps, and solving 1 time step takes over 150 iterations. I know it should be far lower, like 20. But soultion wont converge even if I increase the time step to 400 per cycle.

I was thinking the set-up was wrong and that I should be applying compressible mesh, but this function is not available without license.

Any further help or advice would be very much appreciated.

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Old   August 1, 2002, 12:28
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looks like a challangin problem...

How have you specified the oscillating wall?

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Old   August 1, 2002, 13:04
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The oscillating wall was specified using a unsteady velocity UDF. The problem is I am not specifying any flow and both open ends between the walls can be inlets or outlets. I am quite new to Fluent and CFD, so if the set-up is incorrect, then I won't be surpised.

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Old   August 11, 2002, 22:04
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I think you can have a look over under relaxation factor, if u half the all values, it can be worked.

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