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Old   April 10, 2008, 03:44
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Hi every one
i am trying to simulate the centrifugal impeller with MRFSimpleFoam. after about 5000 steps there are strange velocity in only one passage,the velcity is much larger(above 1e +6 m/s).
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Old   April 10, 2008, 04:10
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Old   April 10, 2008, 05:00
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Take a look at k and epsilon residuals and see which starts to diverge first (U, k or epsilon). Then decrease de order of discretization (take upwind for example) for that particular equation.
To be on the safe side use upwind for all of them.

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Old   April 10, 2008, 05:56
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Hi Dragos
i will try it today
and here is the p k and epsilon


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Old   April 10, 2008, 06:04
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Well Wayne,
It seems that k and epsilon are ok, you have to see which starts to diverge first: pressure equation or momentum?

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Old   April 10, 2008, 06:40
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Hi Dragos
it looks like there are the same



and it quit similar to the iteration procedure in cfx(i will post later,for i am not working on that computer),but there is no such strange velocity.

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Old   April 10, 2008, 06:49
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Hmm, to me it looks that pressure starts to diverge first. So you can try to converge better the pressure equation.
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Old   April 10, 2008, 07:46
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Hi Dragos

how to? would you mind to tell me more ?

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Old   April 10, 2008, 07:56
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Hi Wayne,

Is your outflow boundary the one in the picture or does it only show a part of the whole model. If it is your outflow boundary, what boundary conditions have chosen for it?

Also, post an image of your mesh or the output from the checkMesh utility.

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Old   April 10, 2008, 08:05
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I use this seting for the pressure equation (fvSolution):
p PCG
{
<blockquote>preconditioner GAMG
{
<blockquote>tolerance 1e-6;
relTol 0.05;

smoother DICGaussSeidel;
nPreSweeps 0;
nPostSweeps 2;
nBottomSweeps 2;

cacheAgglomeration false;
nCellsInCoarsestLevel 10;
agglomerator faceAreaPair;
mergeLevels 1;
};

tolerance 1e-6;
relTol 0.05;
maxIter 100;</blockquote>
};
</blockquote>

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Old   April 10, 2008, 08:25
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To Eric:
i use the fixedValue in p for my output condition. the calcualtion region is a impeller without the voulte,so you can see them on the first image!

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Old   April 10, 2008, 08:27
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i will try!

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Old   April 10, 2008, 09:27
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Wayne,

Your outflow boundary is way to close to the region where things happen to allow for fixed pressure BC. Use totalPressure BC instead together with appropriate BC's for U pressureInletOutletVelocity, k inletOutlet and epsilon inletOutlet.

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Old   April 10, 2008, 23:50
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Hi:
i try to run the case in the parallel again without change anything in fvSolution.i still get a divergence. but the different is i donot get strange velocity like before,and the velocity is also looks quiet strange.it looks like that there is no velocity inlet just angular velocity everywhere including the velocity inlet.

here is the residual

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Old   April 10, 2008, 23:51
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and is the velocity in 0.5 spanwise

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Old   April 10, 2008, 23:53
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and the velocity in 0.5spanwise in CFX

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Old   April 11, 2008, 02:45
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Hi Wayne,

Surely looks a bit strange! Could just be a fault in the setup!? What about your makeMesh config, are the faceZones set up properly in the parallel case?

I've run dozens of impellers like yours using the MRF and also comparing with sliding mesh simulations (in general < 5% difference in total flowrate) and also tabulated values (generally < 15% difference on coarse meshes).

Two things about your simulations tells me you'll end up in trouble sooner or later and therefor should be fixed. Firstly, change the location and/or type of your outflow BC. Secondly, if things don't work in serial runs don't bother doing them in parallel. If your case is too big use a coarser mesh to start with.

Also, try the pressure solver settings Dragos showed above. Additionally, run the case with upwind defferencing only for all variables and add "Interpolate(U) upwind phi;" to your interpolation settings in fvSchemes.

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Old   April 11, 2008, 03:12
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Hi Eric
would you mind to send one of your setting(such as makemesh/fvSolution/fcScheme/MRFZones/dynamicMeshDict/Boudary/0 dictionary )or me ?

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Sure,

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Hi

My email adress is waynezw0618@163.com i have sent a email to you.if it was too large for you to send me.please send the setting files(such as makemesh/fvSolution/fcScheme/MRFZones/dynamicMeshDict/Boudary/0 dictionary or other)to me!

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