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Roland R September 28, 2011 08:54

Question for 2D airfoil simulation
 
Hello,

In some cases I detect in my 2D simulations the next notice in convergence history:

U-Mom | 1.01 | 3.5E-06 | 7.4E-05 | 3.8E-05 OK
V-Mom | 1.00 | 2.8E-07 | 4.7E-06 | 1.0E-04 OK
W-Mom | 0.93 | 2.2E-29 | 1.6E-27 | 7.7E+11 *
P-Mass | 1.01 | 7.9E-09 | 2.2E-07 | 44.0 8.7E-01 ok

Based on the CFD online help:

"For the planar mesh the extrusion should be approximately equal to the smallest element edge length"

The mesh in my simulation is proper for this condition. Inspite of this the W-Mom is not OK. (Direction W is normal to the symmetry plane.)

What does it mean? How can I help the calculation?

Thanks
Roland

ghorrocks September 28, 2011 09:43

The linear solver is not happy, but the residuals are very low. If it proceeds and converges with the other equations I would ignore it.

Roland R September 28, 2011 10:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghorrocks (Post 325917)
The linear solver is not happy, but the residuals are very low. If it proceeds and converges with the other equations I would ignore it.

Based on the results your suggestion is correct really. By the way the * turned into OK after ~200 iterations.


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