[lreflow]

Hello dear Foamers,
I am doing a turbulent incompressible steady state Simulation involving a porous media using porousSimpleFoam.
While my pressure Residuals drop below 1e-3 after about 1000 iterations and then oscillate slightly around 5e-4 , I have obviously not reached my steady state solution at this point as can be seen in Uplot.png where the velocities at 4 points on the surface of the porous media are plotted against the iterations. Judging by the residuals alone I would have stopped the simulations way to early. I am wondering what could cause this situation where the residuals are a very bad measure of convergence?
I set a low relaxation factor for the velocity following these guidelines:
http://www.kxcad.net/star-ccm/online...edFlow-09.html

The realizable kepsilon model was switched on after 300 iterations.
I attached my checkMeshlog my fvSolution and fvSchemes file.

I have to do a parameter study and if possible I would like to reduce the necessary number of iterations before starting with it.

Thanks for any help and thoughts on this.

Best wishes,
lreflow