[EternalSeekerX]

Hello everyone!

I am going through some validation studies as a form of learning how to use and understand CFD software. I am running the SurfaceMountedCube sample case which is a PimpleFOAM LES case. Since I don't dual boot I am using VMWare with 6 cores and 6GB of RAM allocated to it. I am running on a laptop which has a in i7 7700HQ and 16GB RAM. By default the same case is set to run on 8 processors. Since I don't have 8 cores to allocate, I decided to modify it to use 6.

Here is my edited DecomposeParDict

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\

| ========= | |

| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |

| \\ / O peration | Version: v1912 |

| \\ / A nd | Website: www.openfoam.com|

| \\/ M anipulation | |

\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

FoamFile

{

version 2.0;

format ascii;

class dictionary;

note "mesh decomposition control dictionary";

object decomposeParDict;

}

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

numberOfSubdomains 6;

method hierarchical;

coeffs

{

n (6 1 1);

}

// ************************************************************************* //

So its been around 33hrs with a current time at 8.2seconds. The simulation should go on till 100 seconds with a time increment of 0.002sec. I am wondering if its slow because of my hardware or is it normally a long simulation?