partcle tracking (aborted trapped incomplete)

Fabrizio

Hello,

I'm looking at a fluent simulation. It involves particle tracking and it is a steady computation both in continuum and discrete phase.

When discrete trajectories are computed I see this output:

number tracked = 31, escaped = 11, aborted = 2, trapped = 7, evaporated = 0, incomplete = 12

I have two problems.

1) I don't understand what means "aborted", "trapped" and "incomplete" tracked particle. I mean I don't see the difference among this definitions. (The particles are inert material).

2) Moreover if I did a steady computation I would expect that every injected particle leave the domain, otherwise the number of particles inside the domain should increase and so it should not be possible to find a steady solution. Am I wrong?

Thank you for any clarification.