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Old   April 21, 2010, 09:27
Default NACA0012 Grid Convergence - nor converging
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Hi everyone,

I am caught in a loop and have tried everything I can think of to solve my problem.

I am trying to run a grid convergence study with a NACA0012 with blunt trainling edge: Re=2.88E06, M=0.16, alpha=3deg, chord=0.76. I am aiming for a cl value around 0.324.

The grid is a C-H shape type, with high definition at the leading and trailing edges, and grid lines departing orthogonally from the surface. Outer boundary is around 30 chord-lengths away from the airfoil in any direction. I have created a coarse grid to be refined in FLUENT twice in order to get the medium and fine ones. My y+ values are 1, 0.5 and 0.25 in the coarse, medium and fine grids respectively. Using k-w SST with no low-Re correction. Air is setup in density as ideal gas and the energy URF value is changed to 0.5.

I am not getting converged results from medium to fine grid. Either a straight line or a V-shape line when plotting lift coefficient for the three grids.

Any step-by-step guideline, suggestions, comments are very appreciated.

It's a bit urgent.

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Old   April 21, 2010, 09:54
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Are you using Roache's method? Also, are you sure that your solutions are actually converged?

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/wind/val.../spatconv.html
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Old   April 21, 2010, 10:30
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Thanks for the quick reply Chris,

I am almost certain each calculation is converged, i.e. flat plot for several hundred iterations. I have run my calculation up to 2000, 4000, 6000, ...

Thanks for the link. I will tell you what I'm doing and we'll see how far off I am from Roche's Method. With the coarse grid opened in FLUENT I refine the domain by Adapt --> Region, and add one point in between points in both directions, i and j. And repeat a second time for the fine grid.

I am doubtful about my wake, it might be too refined.

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BTW, what about a reasonable value of shear wall stress for my test case in order to calculate y+?

I'm even thinking it could be my boundary layer refinement which is picking up "noise" and feeding the solution with it ...
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Aren't you using FLUENT to calculate y+? Also, what spatial scheme are you using? Finally, going back to your OP, you said that you're not getting convergence from the medium to the fine grid. Maybe that means you need even more grid? I'm not really sure what you mean about the "noise" wrt the boundary layer.
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I'm using the formula y+=rho*y*u_star/viscosity=2 for my coarse grid, assuming I will get 1 and 0.5 when refining it with FLUENT. When I plot y+ in FLUENT after a calculation is done I'm getting half the value I was expecting (which keeps me in the safe side), that's why I was asking about wall shear stress to use a good value of u_star.

I know FLUENT is capable of Adapting a grid in terms of y+ but I am not sure I would do it correctly. What would you recommend me to do in order to have three grids with the values of y+ I am aiming for?

I am not too certain about adding more points to the grids in order to get convergence between the medium and fine grids, I am already using grid dimensions that worked in a structured 2D code a few years ago.

With "noise" I mean numerical effects that keep my physical solution from converging nicely.
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Hi, also you might improve grid convergence by refining in Gambit. This will give a nicer grid that refining in Fluent.
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My spatial discretization is Standard for Pressure and First Order Upwind for the other variables during the first couple of hundred iterations and changing to PRESTO! and QUICK respectively after that. I am not coupling pressure and velocity because I haven't been able to get a grid that doesn't blow up.
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Thanks Jack.

I am using Gridgen to generate my grids. Because I am just adding points so I don't change the mesh topology and parameters, I can use FLUENT to add points with no worries.

BTW, I am in 12.0, so no GAMBIT anymore. I've never liked it, though. Personal preference.
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Hi, there are several things a grid generator does better. One is this:



Another is that it will decrease the growth factor. Also you can choose to have a constant first cell width in all grids (affecting your wally+).

Good luck!

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Thanx Jack, I'll look into that.

At this moment something very wrong is happening in my grids. From coarse to fine mesh, my cl values curve describes a V-shape most of the times, some other times it is just a straight ascending or descending line.

I am just puzzled and about to miss a very big deadline.

Thank you guys for spending some time with me. I really appreciate it.

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