[cfd23]

Hi,
I'm running a series of FLUENT journal files from MATLAB. Assuming the journal commands are in the form:
file/read-case-data myshape.cas
solve/iterate 10000
file/write-case-data
y
exit

For certain shapes FLUENT does not converge due to an ill-defined geometry / solver conditions and an error is displayed in the form:

Warning: An error or interrupt occurred while reading the journal file.
Some commands may not have been completed.

In this case FLUENT becomes 'idle' at the error. Ideally, I need the program to exit when an errors appears. Can you please suggest how I can force FLUENT to exit for such cases / or alternate strategies to handle journal file errors?

Thanks

[calemarie]

Hi cfd23,

Did you get any answer on this, or find an alternate solution?

I am myself running series of batch calculations and it is always irritating to find out after a computation night that the second run crashed... I would like to just skip faulty calculations and continue with the batch run but prove unable to handle fluent errors...

Thank you in advance for any hint...

calemarie

[cfd23]

Hi Mate,

Thankfully, FLUENT has a built in option for such cases. Under batch options, there is an 'exit on error' option which you need to check. It does what it says: When and if FLUENT hits an error, the program exits and your calculations will continue to run. I use MATLAB to launch all my jobs, so I simply enter a user-defined magnitude for failed simulations so that I know where the problem occured.

See how you go!

[calemarie]

This is some quick and efficient answer!

I'm quite ashamed I didn't find it by my own...

Thanks a lot anyway, I will give it a try!

[novice]

Hi CFD23,

Its interesting to know that a Fluent process can be launched through MATLAB. Can you pls send me an example file to launch the FLUENT through MATLAB.

Thanks in advance