Coupling problems II Fixed
 

After fixing the problem with collapsed faces the following problems are still present:

1) Cell face is in two or more couples with different couple types;

2) Cell in couple is undefined (still;

3) Cells found with negative volume or volume less than specified value.

The first and the last messages I like least of all.

Julie

Re: Coupling problems II Fixed
 

1. can one cell face be coupled with another cell face in two different ways at the same time ? 2. if the cells are not defined, you dont need the couples. 3. are they tirmmed cells or skewed hex cells ?if so, they have to fix them manually.

Re: Coupling problems II Fixed
 

OK. Thanks to overall help I've fixed all the errors and... got an error that I've fixed already 3 times at least. It claims that I have couple with partial boundaries turned on that contains both fluid and solid cells. I know exactly that I created these couples as arbitrary with partial boundary turned off. It's just impossible!

Julie

Re: Coupling problems II Fixed
 

do this:

cset,news,solid$cpset,news,cset,any$cpdel,cpset$

this will remove all the couples attacthed to the solid.

Re: Coupling problems II Fixed
 

But I need these couples...

Re: Coupling problems II Fixed
 

Julie,

the problem is, star-cd cannot deal with partial boundaries between solids and fluids. but you can only turn off the partial boundary-flag if the faces between solids and fluids are of the same size plus/minus a certain tolerance. if the difference is too high prostar gives you an error-message. the only way to avoid is to ensure a matching of the cell face areas or to leave these regions uncoupled!

thomas