Transist calculation
 

Hi everyone:

Can you help me on transisit calcultation using CFX-TASCflow. The problem is about a twin stage low speed axial compressor. I use Rotor/Strator as interactions instead of Stage when transisit clcultation starting. I did it as the help document said. But I couldn't get a convergence result. The monitor show that a wall placed on outlet as 20%.... .Whatever the DTIME be selected as. The wall still on. What can I do??

Re: Transist calculation
 

Hi DANDY,
I will be no help for your convergence problem but regarding these walls I can tell you that is possible to avoid it. These walls prevents the fluid to enter in the domain through an OUTLET boundary condition. If you set IO_WALLS = f in your PRM file, TASCflow will not create these walls and you'll have some backflow on that BC. Have you tried an OPENING BC instead of an OUTLET one?
Regards, cfd guy

Re: Transist calculation
 

Thanks CFD guy I really appreciate your help. I'll try it as you said. By the way, if I did so, then the result maybe have some backflow on BC? But you know, the problem I was working have no backflow yet. Does it right? And, an Opening BC instead of OUTlet can do what for solving the problem. Hoping you answer again. Thanks

Re: Transist calculation
 

Dandy,

When running a transient simulation, you should not expect the solution to converge. A transient rotor/stator analysis will always show residuals because there is no steady state solution.

The problem at your outlet may be the result of many things. Did you start with a converged frozen rotor solution? This will help, since you must initially run the transient solution until the startup transient has passed. Also, if the outlet is placed too close to the trailing edge of your last component, the wake may not have time to mix out before hitting the outlet, thus causing the wall off. If this is the case, move your outlet farther away to place it in a more predictable flow location.

Do not allow the outlet wall off to persist, this will adversely affect your solution. Changing it to an opening will only make the warning go away, you will still not get the right solution if this is the outlet of your stage calculation!

Finally, your timestep for a transient rotor/stator simulation should be at least 1/10 of the time it takes for one pitch change.

Robin

Re: Transist calculation
 

Robin: Thanks for your help. I want to discuss the problem with you for details. 1.The timestep for transist simulation was about 1/30 of the time it takes for one pitch change. And I started the simulation from a converged steady-state solutation. As you said, the converged frozen rotor had been my choosen sometime ago. But I found it didn't help for the simulation. Maybe it not a good initial soluation for transist problem of axial component, because the middle result shown that the over all efficiency was far from the reality. Finally, I choose the steady-steate as the initial soluation. 2.The outlet is placed about a chord to the trailing edge of last component. Does it enough? 3.Discretization is Modified Linear Profile. 4.Some other CFD software can define CFL number for the inner timestep(virtual timestep) when running a transist simulation, but it seems that CFX-TASCflow couldn't control it.The only thing I could do is to define the Dtime, and it determine the outer timestep (physiscal timestep). When the Dtime was reduced enough (such as 1/1000 of the time it takes for one pitch change), the CFL number shown in the beginning of the transist simulation may be less than 1. Sometimes I thought if that the converge problem maybe arose from the CFL number? 5. For two months, I was working on it. 1/30,1/300 the time it takes for one pitch change as the transist simulation timestep had been attempted. And the Grid scale(per component) also be changed from 10,000 to 80,000. Unfortunately, it still cann't get an acceptable result.