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Old   June 18, 2018, 05:30
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Hi. I am using SU v 6.1 to extract adjoints for a simple onera M6 wing (mesh provided in the SU2 Testcases suite) using discrete adjoint for RANS and the simulations are blowing-up when the solver starts the AD part after I get the direct solution. However, the same simulation does not blow when running Euler simulation instead of RANS. I have tried many options- reducing CFL no, changing the flux calculation (Least squares and Green-Gauss) but none worked. Can you please suggest what to do in this regard.

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Old   July 4, 2018, 04:36
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Hi Suman,

Can you attach your config file?

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Old   July 12, 2018, 02:37
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Hi Zen!

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Hi Suman,

Can you attach your config file?

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Sorry for the late reply. I have attached the config file. Please let me know if there are any issues with it.

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Old   July 31, 2018, 06:36
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Hi Suman,

The universal advise with discrete adjoint is that you should converge the direct solver very well. Do note that the turbulence residuals usually take longer to drop, I usually use a much larger CFL for the turbulence equations (by setting CFL_REDUCTION_TURB > 1).

With regards to solver settings you can try:
MGLEVEL= 2 or 3

LINEAR_SOLVER= BCGSTAB
LINEAR_SOLVER_PREC= ILU
LINEAR_SOLVER_ERROR= 1E-3
LINEAR_SOLVER_ITER= 1000 (just to make sure the linear solver converges)
DISCADJ_LIN_SOLVER= BCGSTAB
DISCADJ_LIN_PREC= ILU

I suggest the switch to BiCGSTAB because that way you can increase the number of iterations to make sure the linear solver converges during the first iterations without increasing memory usage (that would happen with FGMRES). If BiCGSTAB fails (it should not with the CFL you have) switch back to FGMRES, keep ILU and reduce the number of iterations to the 10-100 range.

You mentioned that Euler works fine, keep in mind that SU2 does not have wall functions, therefore you need y+ around 1. If your wall cell size is already that small be careful with very high edge ratios (1000:1 is as far as I would go for testing).

If all this fails there is always the option to freeze the turbulence in the adjoint solver (I do not recall the name but you can check the template config file).

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