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Old   July 24, 2003, 16:48
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Hi, I have a problem with interpreted UDF . I wrote a simple initialization function for density gradient and after I initialize the solution, I can see contours of variable density. But, even after one iteration the density changes into constant. Why? Thank you for help.
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Old   July 24, 2003, 23:56
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hi, I have similar problems. if anyone know, think in advance.
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Old   July 25, 2003, 06:12
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Hi,

perhaps I didn't get the point, but that's what I think: If you initialize a variable, however you do that, you give an initial approximation of the solution. If your model doesn't change the density during the calculation, and you've set a constant value for density in the Materials panel, at the second iteration you'll get that value in all the domain.

You should probably write a DEFINE_PROPERTY macro in your UDF, defining the law of change of your density during the simulation.

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Old   July 25, 2003, 10:53
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I agree with Ale.

If you keep constant the density in Material properties, FLUENT will use your initialization value just to compute the first iteration.

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Old   July 26, 2003, 19:39
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I thought after 'first iteration', the solution is NOT 'converged'. Why would I bother checking any solution in some intermediate iterations??
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Old   July 27, 2003, 20:22
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I'm not telling the solution is converged after the first iteration.

I just say that if you initialize a density value, but you keep constant density in the material properties, FLUENT will use the value specified there (Material properties) to do all computation except for the first iteration.

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