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Old   January 17, 2011, 13:44
Default Accelerate flow in one direction
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Dear All,
I have a domain which is very long in one direction, maybe factor >> 1000 compared two the two other directions. The transport of information seems to be very slow from inlet to outlet.

Is there a logic an easy way of accelerating the solution in one direction, such that the solver used less "sweeps" in the short direction and more in the long direction.

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Old   January 18, 2011, 19:15
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Initialise or patch it realistically to start off (i.e. not zero everywhere) using the inlet zone.
Maybe run a 2d simulation instead?
Use high aspect ratio cells stretched in stream wise direction.
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Old   January 19, 2011, 16:52
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Thanks for the advice red Lemon. I have al ready done all that.
In the very old CFX it was posssible to control the number of sweps in each direction and by that a control of the time spend on calculating the flow in each direction. I think there is a similar option in Fluent, Cycle, but I don't understand it nor have experience
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