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Old   March 22, 2012, 06:01
Default Particle Transport and Mesh Cell Size
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Hi,

For an incompressible flow with particle tracking is there guidelines on how small mesh cells should be?

For example: should a mesh be sized so that a particle is expected to move cross a cell face per time step? Or perhaps move every 2nd timestep?

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