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Old   April 5, 2013, 08:43
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Hi

i'm currently simulating a VAWT turbine in ANSYS, using the sliding mesh approach. However, initially the turbine spins the inner domain creating a lot of disturbance in the results and takes roughly 3-4 seconds to reach a quasi-steady solution. i've been trying to use adaptive time stepping to run the first say 4 time steps at a larger step size so i can pass through this zone and reach the periodic time faster. however, when i change the settings and run the simulations, it starts to diverge and is unable to solve the porblem so i have to revert back to fixed time stepping which takes too long. is anyone familiar with how to solve this? all help is greatly appreciated! thanks in advance
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p.s. this is the set up for the adaptive time steps i tried

trunc. error - 0.01
end time - 10s
min step size - 0.005s
max step size 0.5
min step change factor 0.005
max change factor - 0.5
fixed time steps - 4

i hoped this would run 4 time steps at 0.5s then decrease to 0.005 when it hopefully reaches a periodic solution?
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Old   April 7, 2013, 14:49
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Anyone have any ideas on adaptive time stepping? anything's a help
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Try with reduced minimum timestep, say 0.001, or smaller if you still see the divergence.

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Thanks again OJ, i'll try that tonight and let you know if it works
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Old   April 8, 2013, 14:09
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OJ,

unfortunately reducing the time step size did not work, it ran for a few time steps and then divergence was detected. and a floating point exception error was produced?? I've attached a screen shot of the error. i also tried increasing the order of the solution methods thinking that would help as the error mentioned momentum divergence but to no avail.
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Maybe check your viscosity ratios and such in your BCs?
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which pressure-velocity coupling your are using?

Please show pics of mesh and domain!
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Thanks for the input Colin and Far,

After looking more into turbulent viscosity on this forum i altered my ratio, hydraulic diameter to 5m (the width of my domain) and turbulent intensity to 5%. i also totally remeshed my domain instead of using a random tri-mesh i mapped the rectangular area and then used a random tri-mesh for the rotor domain due to its complexity. This seemed to work and i have not been stopped with any floating point or turbulent viscosity ratio errors yet.
Thanks again for both your help it was much appreciated.
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