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Old   September 9, 2010, 09:56
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hello,

i tried to calculate the flow through two combined cylinders...
meshing tool was netgen.
it is one of the example geometries of netgen...

but simpleFoam solver always breaks the operation after 23 steps of calculation.
it points out the following errors in the terminal windows:

#0 Foam::error:rintStack(Foam::Ostream&) in "/opt/openfoam170/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#1 Foam::sigFpe::sigFpeHandler(int) in "/opt/openfoam170/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#2 in "/lib/libc.so.6"
#3 Foam::PBiCG::solve(Foam::Field<double>&, Foam::Field<double> const&, unsigned char) const in "/opt/openfoam170/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#4 Foam::fvMatrix<double>::solve(Foam::dictionary const&) in "/opt/openfoam170/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libfiniteVolume.so"
#5 Foam::lduMatrix::solverPerformance Foam::solve<double>(Foam::tmp<Foam::fvMatrix<doubl e> > const&) in "/opt/openfoam170/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
#6 Foam::incompressible::RASModels::kEpsilon::correct () in "/opt/openfoam170/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libincompressibleRASModels.so"
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in "/opt/openfoam170/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/simpleFoam"
#8 __libc_start_main in "/lib/libc.so.6"
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in "/opt/openfoam170/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/simpleFoam"
Floating point exception


could someone help me, how to get this case run?

i also postet the "0" time directory and system folder
constant folder was a bit to large

thank you very much in advance

Martin
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Old   September 9, 2010, 10:29
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Hi,

I can have a look at your problem but I need your constant folder. You could reduce the folder size if you delete all the files in polymesh exept the blockMeshDict file.
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thank you very much...

but i do not have a blockmesh file...

the mesh was created by netgen...

but of course i could send it via email, if that would be okay..!?
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Hi RugbyGandalf!

I launched your case with epsilon = 1 and it works fine. When you work with a turbulent model the solution convergence depends a lot of your initial conditions on k and epsilon. So maybe try other values until you find good ones.

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thank you very much

it is working great

is there a "rule" for setting epsilon and k?

what are these values saying exactly?
i am very new to cfd and openFoam - so i do not already know about all the values
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I'm not an expert in turbulent model but k and epsilon depend of initial velocity, characteristic length and Reynolds number. Maybe you should have a look at some explanations you could find on Wikipedia to fix your initial conditions.
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