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Prateek garg November 6, 2012 06:02

CFD basics
 
Hi,

Can someone please help me explaining: Why grids with high number of cells (3 millions) require very small timestep size? and How could I determine that how many number of iteration per time step is required for solution to converge?

cdegroot November 6, 2012 08:58

Assuming you are talking about an explicit time marching method, it is because of the CFL condition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courant...Lewy_condition.


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