Divergence detected in AMG solver: pressure correction
 

Hi,
its a air flow simulation.
i have a porous cell zone.
the inlet speed is ~16m/s , diameter ~45mm and the turbulence intensity ~5% and a pressure outlet with 116mm diameter (hydraulic diameter) and ~5% turbulence. i have a mesh with ~500k cells. max skewness is under 0,80 and max. aspect ratio under 10. i have the standard k-epsilon-model active. solution options are default.
the error iam getting is : Divergence detected in AMG solver: pressure correction. i played with the under-relaxtion factor for pressure and decreased it. but it doenst help. i did the same simulation with a different mesh (only ~300k cells) and it worked after setting the limit for maximum absolute pressure to maximum (1e+20).
what can i do to get rid of that problem? any suggestions?

Hi,

I have also encountered this problem, although for bubbly flows, not porous materials. For my cases, the problem was solved by changing the pressure AMG-cycle from the default (in my case) C-cycle to a flexible cycle.

You can change these settings under Solution Controls -> Advanced
-> Multigrid

Maybe this can resolve your problems as well?

Cheers!

it doesnt help. thanks for the suggestion anyway! ;)
I played a little with the "sweeps" under multigrid, it ran ok until ~700 Iterations.
Then again, "Divergence detected in AMG solver: pressure correction" error..

sorry for double-post, but if u need any other information, that could help you to help me, just let me know!

ok, for now i may have solved my problem.
its my understanding, that especially in the first iterations the simulation was not stable and divergence was detected by the solver
for the first 30 iterations i activated the "laminar flow" option in the porous cell zone and then deactivated it again.
it seems that this helps in my case, because iam in iteration ~1500 and my simulation reaches convergence almost.. yep it worked.

Good that it worked out! :)

meshing quality or pressure corection
 

Dear all,

I am trying to simulate micro-cylinders embedded in a rectangular microchannel so I simplified the model with a unit cell which is a square microchannel including a micro-cylinder with an inlet and outlet by apply periodic boundary condition in the inlet and outlet (I used mass-flow rate for inlet boundary condition).
The point is when I applied periodic boundary condition in Fluent, an error just appeared before the first iteration calculating solution "divergence detected in AMG solver-pressure correction" . Although I tried to overcome this problem by reducing under relaxation factor and change some parameters in solution control, unfortunately I could not be able to solve it.
In the other hand when I want to make periodic region in inlet and outlet in mesh utility, but the coordinate system light yellow prevent to well define it.

I suggest maybe it is related to mesh quality and i have to make a finer mesh, do you have any suggestion about the mesh or solving this problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Michel

Yes, It worked.
changing to multigrid is getting smooth flow during iteration, in my case default setting gets divergence bellow 100 iteration, now running more than 200 with out any spikes or back pressure, hope it will converge soon..........thanks

Running the simulation in the coupled solver seemed to help for me.

Thank you, it works.

play with solution controls - advanced settings
 

I changed my cycle to flexible - it did not help much. Then I changed the AMG method stabilization from aggregative to selective. It helped.

Hello
I have also encountered this problem, but solution from KristianEtienne doesn't work in my case. Instead i change model from Inviscid to Laminar.
This solution good for me. I hoped reliable for your work.
Thanks.