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December 21, 2011, 11:18 |
Pipe flow in settlingFoam floating point exception
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Jochem van den Bosch
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Dear fellow FOAM'ers,
I'm trying to simulate a two phase (sand/water) flow in a straight pipe using settlingFoam. To start, I altered the tank3D tutorial of settlingFoam. I use a pipe mesh which I already have succesfully used with single phase flows. Unfortunately, whatever I try, I'm getting a 'Floating point exception' after 5-20 iterations. I suppose this has something to do with the boundary conditions but I cannot find my mistake. These are them. Would anybody know where I went wrong??? Quote:
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December 21, 2011, 16:03 |
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Stephen Lucchesi
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your courant number is going crazy. Likely the timestep is set too big. try reducing it.
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December 22, 2011, 04:12 |
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Jochem van den Bosch
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Hi Stephen, my courant number is going like crazy indeed, but when I reduce my timestep with a factor 1000! to 0.0001 I get the same message after 54 iterations.
But when I look at those 54 iterations in ParaView I see no pressure distribution (see attachment) and also no speeds... This makes me believe there is something wrong in the boundary conditions.... Quote:
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February 16, 2012, 03:05 |
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Matt
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Hi Jochem, I am having a similar issue to this, did you manage to fix it?
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February 16, 2012, 03:24 |
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Jochem van den Bosch
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Hi Matt, my problem was that I set the speed in a direction perpendicular to the wall instead of parallel. But in general the problem can be solved by decreasing your time step. What solver are you using?
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