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Old   June 30, 2017, 03:45
Default can floating point exception correspond to bad mesh quality?
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I ran cfx-solver and get such error:

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Mesh Statistics |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Domain Name | Orthog. Angle | Exp. Factor | Aspect Ratio |
+----------------------+---------------+--------------+--------------+
| | Minimum [deg] | Maximum | Maximum |
+----------------------+---------------+--------------+--------------+

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ERROR #001100279 has occurred in subroutine ErrAction. |
| Message: |
| Floating point exception: Invalid number |

So is it something like negative volume anywhere?
It's first time I faced such error.
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Old   July 6, 2017, 03:02
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Yes and no. Yes, bad mesh quality can lead to floating point exception error.

No (it is not ONLY the mesh that can cause floating point error), sometimes it can also be because of improper boundary conditions, large time-steps, improper interface setup and so on.

It is advisable not just to check mesh before starting simulation but also fix the mesh. I am not sure about CFX but Fluent has commands like repair-face-handedness and repair-face-node-order that can help fix the small errors in the mesh without having to make the mesh again.
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"improper boundary conditions, large time-steps, improper interface setup" - no. that was not the rub definitely.As you can see, the problem popped out even before mesh statistics estimation not to mention the first iteration. and as I know, there are no useful commands such as repair, alas...
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It sounds to me that you might have something big wrong in the mesh. Perhaps you should try to go back to your meshing program and try to find the error there. Is it possible to do some kind of visualization of the mesh parameters before the actual solving of the case? You might me able to locate the assumably low quality cells in the mesh that way.

If you are using DesignModeler and Meshing, I would suggest that you should try the "Share Topology" tool in DM, which would usually give the user a heads up if there's something amiss in the actual computational volume ( for instance overlapping geometries). Meshing (the program) itself provides many tools to evaluate the qualitative parameters of the mesh.
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