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Old   September 20, 2010, 15:12
Default Continuity. Stop critertion of PISO and SIMPLE in OpenFOAM solvers.
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Hallo Foamers!

I have a question related to OpenFOAM solvers with SIMPLE or PISO loop. Why was as stop criterion the number of iteration used or implemented,respectively, and not a number of accuracy, e.g. 1e-10 (sum,global,cumulative)? Has this a specific reason?

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