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Old   July 16, 2014, 16:48
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Hello. First post.

I have a large 3-D conjugate heat transfer problem (3.6 million elements). Basically there is gas flow within several layers of insulation and metal. On the outside of the metal, I am trying to apply convection heat transfer (T~500 ºC, h ~ 20).

The problem converges fine without the energy equation. However, no matter what BCs or initial conditions (patch) I use, the energy equation diverges after 10 iterations.

Things I tried:

- energy relaxation of 0.05
- coupled solver
- second order energy...first order energy...MUSCL energy...QUICK energy
- set all BCs to 30 ºC.... Patched all zones to 30ºC.

This last one is puzzling. There are no gradients in temperature.... why is it diverging?

Thanks for your help,
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Old   July 18, 2014, 09:12
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Well, if anyone is interested, I think I don't have enough fluid elements near the walls. I will try automatic inflation.

However, the trick is to NOT produce more than 5 million elements, which seems to be the max my machine can handle.
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