Hello everyone,

I launched a calculation on friday evening, and when I came back this morning... Surprise! ONE iteration done...

From my (little) experience with fluent, if the model is not set up properly, the solution diverges and an error message is displayed.

I don't think it's a CPU/RAM problem either, as my model is about 10,000,000 elements, for a linux PC, 2*dual proc, 16Gb RAM. (i solve the energy equation).

Any clue? Thanks for your help /jb

It should be pretty obvious if it has run out of RAM and is disk-swapping. 10e6 cells, energy equation, turbulence model (?), if you are using double precision I would not be surprised if you are out of RAM.

no double precision, no disk swapping... when I do a ps -aux, it looks like fluent only uses 50% of RAM. I checked (again) my mesh, BCs, etc... I rebooted the computer... same problem.

Since you have a dual process think of running in parallel

fluent 3d -pnet -t2

thanks for your answer, but I'm already running my calculation in parallel

Its a bug, my cluster does the same thing as well. Reset, and reload.

Thanks Ryan.

Yes, I talked with a Fluent guy that told me that It might come from a too large number of faces inclueded in my non-conformal interfaces. Any kind of warning would have been appreciated :/

anyway... i'm meshing a new model without non-conformal interfaces, in order to check if this realy was the problem!

Hej,

My pb is not fixed yet, but I have new info for anyone willing to help.

I thought I fixed the original pb by rermoving any non-conformal interface in my model. I ran the new model without any problem, until it crashed due to our stupid crappy network. Anyway.. I launched again the calculation before leaving the office yesterday, and this morning, fluent was still stucked to the 1st iteration!! (same pb as when launching the model with non-conformal interfaces). I was about to kill myself, staring at the empty fluent monitors, when suddently, the calculation started for real!!

Now everything is working fine, but why the hell did Fluent had to wait for me move the mouse to launch the calculation for real??????? I'm very confused... I lost about 3 days of work in our project (so far :/) for nothing.

Any clue?

hi. your elements are very high.increase your interval size

What do u mean?? I don't get it

it means that you should meshing your geometry with high interval size(in mesh object after define meshing type you must define interval size )if you decrease this value , your elements will be very much .

dude, I already have a f#cking coarse mesh!!.. of course less elements MIGHT help, but unfortunately i'm afraid this is not an option if I want to keep a good accuracy level.