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Old   April 22, 2010, 09:33
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icoFoam is no steady-state solver so you will not get an "convergence" state.

you can control the initialResidual outputs of the linear solvers. they give a hint how much happens in one timestep.
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Old   April 22, 2010, 10:11
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okay thanks a lot! i think i start a calculation over night and tomorrow i'll see after how many iterations the solution doesn't change notable.
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