Velocity in some elements imediately goto infinity
 

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with my final year uni project...

I have created a geometry in gambit of a 2d beach, of which a tsunami wave will break over. In FLUENT I'm using VOF, NITA, Fractional Step, PRESTO as some of my controls...For my geometry, in GAMBIT I have broken the complete model into small sections, mainly of rectangles and some triangles. Upon running the model, it seems to successfully run for about 100 timesteps with good error residuals, and then all of a sudden, without warning the continuity error shoots to infinity. Upon close inspection, i found that at points within my mesh where rectangles intersect, (similar to shown below) the velocity magnitude in a few elements, which should be small increases slowly over time, until suddenly approaching infinity.

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................ Rec 1 | Rec 2.......................

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.................Rec 3 | Rectangle 4.................

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Does anybody know why this is happening, and how to avoid it???

Many thanks

Shane

Re: Velocity in some elements imediately goto infi
 

Hi,

I'm having a similar problem in my simulation too.

Re: Velocity in some elements imediately goto infi
 

This sounds like a meshing problem. You can try one of two things. 1) In the solution-controls window, try lowering the under relaxation factors. This may or may not solve the problem... 2) Use the refine mesh command within fluent. Gambit (as I'm sure you've experienced) is not always great at creating dense meshes in areas where you have a sudden change. Without looking at your specific mesh I cant' tell you exatly how to do it, but Fluent has a fairly good mesh adaption tool built into it. ~Geoff

Re: Velocity in some elements imediately goto infi
 

Try to use Structured Meshing all over the domain and see...!