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November 21, 2018, 12:15 |
Why results are worse with a finer mesh
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Amir
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Hi all,
I'm solving a natural convection with user defined viscosity in square cavity in Fluent. Fluent solves the problem with no issues on a 40x40 orthogonal mesh (mapped+edge sizing) and the results are valid, however when I make the mesh 80x80 with the same settings; firstly, after almost a week of run time (for comparison 40x40 took 5hrs to converge) the residuals doesn't seem to converge to the same residual that the 40x40 model was converged to. Secondly, I stopped the iterations but the results are not valid (e.g. should be 1e-3 but it's 1e-4). can you please help me with the possibilities that are causing this issue. I expect that when I increase the grids not only the solution should converge but also it has to have more accurate result and the 80x80 is not a very small mesh size in the scale of my simulations. I'm using SIMPLE algorithm and Green-Gauss node based for gradient terms and second order for other terms. an image of my residuals are attached. thanks, Amir |
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November 21, 2018, 14:45 |
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Lucky
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Okay you need to be looking at more than residuals. Residuals are not a measure of accuracy or validity. The result is the actual solution. You should not have any broad expectations of residuals vs grid size.
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November 21, 2018, 15:45 |
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Amir
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ok I got your point so I shouldn't expect the same behavior of residuals for different meshes and also they are not a measure of validating my results. now the question is why the solution (comparing Nusselt number and max velocity with a benchmark) is not valid on finer mesh while every other factor is the same? |
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