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Old   July 30, 2007, 12:21
Default For starters, this is not easy
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For starters, this is not easy - RSTM models are notoriously tricky to run with cyclics. Your problem will be worse if the geometry is only one cells thick, due to some issues of boosting the off-digaonal rather than matrix diagonal in cyclics. In any case, you will need to play around with the numerics and under-relaxation until you get it to work; once it starts up properly, all will be well.

I remember a bug in cyclics for tensors a long long time ago, but that has been eliminated in about 1999 - hopefully it dodn't come back...

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Old   July 30, 2007, 16:37
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Well, my geometry is in fact only one cell thick.
I also had a lot of trouble using CFX with that grid but finally it converged applying local timescaling, which dampens a lot. Of course I don't have this choice in OpenFOAM. Nevertheless the quality of the grid is high considering a 6° grid.
So far I played around with under-relaxation and TVD schemes (Upwind was not beneficial), sadly without success.
Don't you have a hint for example which solver and scheme is most stable for the Reynolds stresses or which relation and range of epsilon and R relaxation is reasonable. I would be very happy about any help on that.
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Old   August 1, 2007, 12:41
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I found the problem.
Neither the geometry nor the numerical setup caused my problems, its the system.

I'm working on a beowulf cluster consisting of SuSE 9.3 systems based on a 2.6.11.4 kernel.
My home system is SuSE 10.2 based on a 2.6.18.2 kernel. The OpenFOAM installation is identical using gcc-4.1.2. On my home system LRR converges without problems, but on our cluster even with the start solution taken from my home system the simulations crashes after the first iteration.
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Hi,

i know that this thread is some years old but for me it seems to be up to date. I can run a dbnsTurbFoam-case with cyclic boundaries and LRR turbulence modeling on my local machine (Suse 13.1) both in serial and in parallel mode, but when I shift the same case to a Centos 6.3 cluster there is a huge increase in Rzz on one cyclic patch and the computation stops after a few timesteps.
Did someone solve that problem?

Thanks in advance!

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Old   August 13, 2014, 12:19
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Hi,

I solved the problem by using cyclicGgi boundaries and making them globalFaceZones. Calculation takes longer but at least it works.
I think in my case the problem occurs when the cyclics are split by decomposePar.
Anyway i'm still interested in a more elegant solution.

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