Closed demetrafabris closed 3 years ago
The linear solver is not converging. Which are your Reynolds and maximum Courant numbers?
This is thee file with my Courant's numbers, the maximum was around 6, before it starts to not converging
These are not too high. What about the Reynolds?
If I'm not wrong, at the height of the bridge deck (approximately 30 m) I obtained Re=92659074 (the chartacteristic dimension of the bridge deck is the width l=45.86 m and the medium wind velocity is v(z=30m)=30.31 m/s) Isn't it strange?
Don't know if it's strange, but for sure is super large. As characteristic dimension, I'd use the cross-section thickness, which would yield something of the order of 5M. How many elements do you have in the mesh? Can you attach a snapshot of the mesh close to the cross-section.
I've got 27K elements in the mesh
Without the mesh
With the mesh
Here there is the structure
First of all, I think that this mesh is super coarse for such a high Re number. Secondly, as this is super turbulent, might it be the case that you have some vortexes that travel through the domain and arrive to the outlet?
Yes, it is
Yes, it is
When the simulation starts to converge badly, is there inflow through the outlet?
Actually it seems to have some problems at the inlet. The simulation starts to converge badly around 135 s (the simulation should last 200 s). I show you some pictures at different time steps.
100 s
110 s
120 s
130 s
136.65 s (When the analysis stopped)
:confused: this is strange... The values in the inlet must be fixed during the entire simulation. Is there any chance that the time intervals of your inlet function are not set in accordance to the total simulation time?
Maybe I found out the problem I modified the end time of the analysis from 100 s to 200 s in the project parameter, but I forgot to modify the end time in the ramp-up too (I divided in ramp-up time from 0.0 s to 10.0 s and in the flow time from 10.0 s to 100.05 s). Maybe it was there the problem. Cuold it be?
ided in ramp-up time from 0.0 s to 10.0 s and in the flow time from 10.0 s to 100.05
I bet this is the problem. From 100.05 onwards you have no inlet BC. For this to be valid for any end time you can just put "interval" : [10.0,"End"]
in your inlet process. Then it will apply your inlet function regardless the end time.
Closing as it seems to be solved. @demetrafabris feel free to reopen again if required.
Description My analysis lasts 200 s with 0.01 s time steps. Since almost 136 s it starts to not converge and it stopped with the error listed below
Scope Compilation
To Reproduce
Expected behavior The analysis should arrive to 200 s without this problem
Environment