problem with parallel simulation
 

Hello everyone!

I have a problem running a parallel simulation.

In the first steps of my case, I do the following instructions:

-surfaceFeatureExtract
-blockMesh
-snappyHexMesh
-setFields
-decomposePar

All these went well.

But when I type : foamJob -parallel interFoam
The simulation encounters a problem and gives this message

Time = 2.5

PIMPLE: iteration 1
smoothSolver: Solving for alpha.water, Initial residual = 0.209678, Final residual = 9.91126e-09, No Iterations 840
Phase-1 volume fraction = -1.55948e+08 Min(alpha.water) = -2.52115e+15 Max(alpha.water) = 1.68999e+15
MULES: Correcting alpha.water
Phase-1 volume fraction = -1.55925e+08 Min(alpha.water) = -1.26256e+26 Max(alpha.water) = 2.36982e+26
GAMG: Solving for p_rgh, Initial residual = 0.000183673, Final residual = 0.00784301, No Iterations 50
time step continuity errors : sum local = 2.2925e+12, global = 3.35574e+08, cumulative = 3.35506e+08
GAMG: Solving for p_rgh, Initial residual = 1.17896e-06, Final residual = 4.15992e-09, No Iterations 3
time step continuity errors : sum local = 6.19977e+16, global = -7.42357e+15, cumulative = -7.42357e+15
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Primary job terminated normally, but 1 process returned
a non-zero exit code.. Per user-direction, the job has been aborted.
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mpirun detected that one or more processes exited with non-zero status, thus causing
the job to be terminated. The first process to do so was:

Process name: [[33237,1],3]
Exit code: 144

The simulation was supposed to run for 60 seconds but it stopped at 2.5 seconds.

Does anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?

Hi Anis,
Look at the values of alpha.water before the first MULES correction, they are clearly not correct, and you can tell the same also for p_rgh.
So, maybe something is wrong with the settings of your case, but it is hard to tell without more information.
I suggest you to try checking the boundary conditions inside the 0 folder , then running the case in serial and see what happens at the very first iterations.

Regards,
Lorenzo