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August 4, 2023, 19:20 |
Force coeffs oscillate every time step
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Matthew Lee
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I am trying to use OpenFOAM v10 to simulate 2D flow over a cylinder with the Smagorinsky LES model. It runs and looks good in Paraview, but the lift and drag forces seem to oscillate consistently after every time step. Here's a snippet from the end of my forceCoeffs.dat file:
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199.941818 1.4317889e-21 1.6527645e+00 5.1511692e-21 4.0073734e-21 1.1437957e-21 199.9447989 1.6122451e-21 1.5110680e+00 4.0493426e-21 3.6369164e-21 4.1242622e-22 199.9477798 1.4459129e-21 1.6526853e+00 5.1431568e-21 4.0174913e-21 1.1256655e-21 199.9507606 1.6260685e-21 1.5107106e+00 4.0335480e-21 3.6428425e-21 3.9070552e-22 199.9537415 1.4597792e-21 1.6522745e+00 5.1228902e-21 4.0212243e-21 1.1016659e-21 199.9567224 1.6399527e-21 1.5104890e+00 4.0152702e-21 3.6475879e-21 3.6768236e-22 199.9597034 1.4738386e-21 1.6522392e+00 5.1084799e-21 4.0280785e-21 1.0804014e-21 199.9626846 1.6539039e-21 1.5102981e+00 3.9886949e-21 3.6482513e-21 3.4044355e-22 199.9656659 1.4877786e-21 1.6520038e+00 5.0858655e-21 4.0307114e-21 1.0551541e-21 199.9686475 1.6678368e-21 1.5101075e+00 3.9668461e-21 3.6512598e-21 3.1558630e-22 199.9716294 1.5018335e-21 1.6519039e+00 5.0605950e-21 4.0321310e-21 1.0284640e-21 199.9746116 1.6818407e-21 1.5101007e+00 3.9380434e-21 3.6508624e-21 2.8718097e-22 199.9775941 1.5153028e-21 1.6515028e+00 5.0302069e-21 4.0304062e-21 9.9980069e-22 199.980577 1.6951050e-21 1.5096615e+00 3.9126535e-21 3.6514317e-21 2.6122175e-22 199.9835603 1.5294942e-21 1.6516077e+00 4.9977361e-21 4.0283622e-21 9.6937391e-22 199.9865441 1.7095061e-21 1.5095849e+00 3.8739997e-21 3.6465059e-21 2.2749381e-22 199.9895284 1.5435153e-21 1.6512604e+00 4.9466982e-21 4.0168644e-21 9.2983377e-22 199.9925132 1.7236659e-21 1.5093642e+00 3.8017353e-21 3.6245336e-21 1.7720176e-22 199.9954986 1.5579112e-21 1.6512630e+00 4.8440745e-21 3.9799484e-21 8.6412609e-22 199.9984846 1.7378092e-21 1.5093106e+00 3.7230284e-21 3.5993234e-21 1.2370506e-22 200.0014712 1.5720350e-21 1.6512341e+00 4.8135393e-21 3.9788047e-21 8.3473460e-22 Code:
ddtSchemes { default CrankNicolson 1; } gradSchemes { default cellLimited Gauss linear 0.5; grad(U) cellLimited Gauss linear 1; } divSchemes { default Gauss upwind; div(phi,U) Gauss linearUpwind grad(U); div(phi,k) Gauss linearUpwind default; div(phi,omega) Gauss upwind; div((nuEff*dev2(T(grad(U))))) Gauss linear; } laplacianSchemes { default Gauss linear corrected; } interpolationSchemes { default linear; } snGradSchemes { default corrected; } wallDist { method meshWave; } Code:
solvers { p { solver GAMG; tolerance 1e-6; relTol 0.001; smoother GaussSeidel; minIter 3; } pFinal { $p; relTol 0; } "(U|k|epsilon|omega|s|kt|kl|nuTilda)" { solver PBiCGStab; preconditioner DILU; tolerance 1e-10; relTol 0.001; // minIter 3; } "(U|k|epsilon|omega|s|kt|kl|nuTilda)Final" { $U; relTol 0; } } PIMPLE { nOuterCorrectors 1; nCorrectors 2; nNonOrthogonalCorrectors 1; } relaxationFactors { equations { ".*" 0.5; } } |
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