Solely changing writeInterval's value affects the results -pimpleDyMFoam - AMI
 

Hi

== 1 ==

In short, the question is that:

Can specifying different values for "writeInterval" under the controlDict affect the final simulation results or not?

== 2 ==

There are 2 cases which are identical and are run at the same workstations with the same number of parallelized sub-domains. The cases are empty (i.e. no wall inside) rectangular domains wherein there are a circular rotating domain from the inlet to the outlet and the surrounding stationary domain. The inlet velocity is constant, uniform and axial only.

The only difference is the value of writeInterval.

1. Case:

2. Case

== 3 ==

Although the 2. case gives the expected constant axial speed unchanged, in the 1. case the axial velocity does increase/decrease at least 30% at certain regions (mostly inside the rotating domain).

== 4 ==

If solely changing writeInterval's value is said to be impossible to cause this, I will upload all the cases and detail all the required info.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

Hi,

The first thing that comes to mind is the question whether you limit the time step to a fixed Courant number? If so, the time step can vary during the simulation and the variation is such that the writeInterval should be matched exactly. So if you reduce the writeInterval it can be that the time steps are smaller and you do not solve exactly the same case.

Regards,
Tom

Basically if you send shorter writeInterval you get smaller time-step. Usually OpenFOAM would like to make at least 5 steps between writes (i.e. if write interval is 1, max time step is 0.2). If your solutions is not fully converged bigger times steps can lead to different solution. There's an option maxDeltaT which can limit time step.

Hi,

I will re-run the cases accordingly and will mention what has been changed under this thread.

Many thanks for your answers.

I confirm that I made a mistake in setting-up the identical(!) cases. Literally the previous cases were not identical.

== 1 ==

In the previous cases, the time-step of both cases had been adjusted during the run supposedly due to

== 2 ==

In the new cases, I set up the controlDict as:

Now, everything is the same.

== 3 ==
Further, this showed me the relative importance of the time-step setting in the problem whilst the results can be affected anyways.

Many thanks for your help pointing out exactly where I was wrong.

difference between timeStep and clockTime
 

Dear all:

I am running OpenFOAM 2.2.1, sloshingTank2D. I would like to have output at every 0.02 seconds. Can anyone tell me the advantage of using timeStep vs clockTime? It appears that both of them depend on the writeInterval to determine when to write data. If writeInterval is a real number such as 0.02, one would expect the write to occur every 0.020000000000 seconds of time. But I have seen that does not quite happen. There are instances where OpenFOAM will write the results at 0.01999999 seconds.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

writeInterval in OpenFOAM does not always write at the desired time
 

I was wondering if you have had any problems whith OpenFOAM when running forcing write to occur at runTime, which defaults to the writeInterval variable. I am running OpenFOAM coupled with another code, where the code generates a displacement file, consisting of two lines of data (start time, start displacement, end time, end displacement) and sends to OpenFOAM to get pressure forces. The problem I have come across is that even though I set writeInterval to 0.02 seconds of simulated time, if the start and end times are multiples of 0.02 (eg, 0.02 to 0.04; 0.04-0.06 etc), OpenFOAM will, every once in a while generate a file with a time stamp of say 0.079999. I have gotten around this problem by increasing the timePrecision variable in controlDict to 7 (default is 6), and it seems to have corrected the problem. I am not sure whether this is a temporary fix or not.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this.
Thanks

How to change writeInterval values preserving the results?
 

Hi,

I would be grateful for your assistance.
Could you guide me on modifying the writeInterval values in the controlDict below from 0.25 to 10 without compromising the integrity of the results? Many thanks.

application buoyantPimpleFoam;

startFrom latestTime;

startTime 0;

stopAt endTime;

endTime 120;

deltaT 0.001;

writeControl adjustableRunTime;

writeInterval 0.25;

purgeWrite 10;

writeFormat binary;

writePrecision 6;

writeCompression off;

timeFormat general;

timePrecision 6;

runTimeModifiable yes;

adjustTimeStep yes;

maxCo 5;