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October 8, 2009, 10:08 |
Low Reynolds Number Instability in icoFoam - Cavity Case
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Kyle Mooney
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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has heard of a lower bound to Reynolds number stability... I have been running highly viscous cases as part of my research and have been running into instability at very low Reynolds numbers ~1e-3. I tried simplifying the problem and running icoFoam with lid driven cavity at Re=1e-3 and it is highly unstable. The velocity grows in an unbound fashion rather quickly. The occurs regardless of the way that low Re is reached i.e. high viscosity or low velocity. This seems counter-intuitive in that typically low Re flows are computational stable. Has anyone ever experienced this type of instability before or have any incite as to what is going on? ~Kyle |
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October 8, 2009, 13:21 |
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Hi,
Make sure your icoFoam time step guarantees a Courant number < 1. Remember that at such low Re diffusion governs your transport. In these conditions, the 'Courant' number (or stability parameter) you need is no more Co=U*dt/dx and is now Co=nu*dt/dx^2, where nu is the kinematic viscosity. Regards, Jose Santos |
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October 8, 2009, 14:09 |
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Kyle Mooney
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Thanks for the response,
Doesn't that CFL condition only apply to explicit treatment of viscosity? I failed to mention that I am treating it implicitly . ~Kyle |
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