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January 17, 2008, 17:52	Hi there, was just wonderin	#1
pbo Member Patrick Bourdin Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 40 Rep Power: 17	Hi there, was just wondering: in icoFoam, the momentum equations are treated implicitly, so why is there a Courant number limitation wrt stability? Fully implicit methods should not suffer from that, or am I missing anything here? Cheers. Patrick

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