[Fatnes]

Hi.

The solver stopped my simulations after appr. 15 timesteps given the following error message:

An error has occurred in cfx5solve: |
| |
| The ANSYS CFX solver could not be started, or exited with return |
| code 255: . No results file has been created.

Does anyone know what "return code 255" mean?

[nellio75]

Hello Fatnes,

does your .out files contain some warnings? could you send an extract of your .out file (max 97 kB)?

Bye

[CFAlex]

I don't even get a .out-file. Error message is "The CFX solver for system 'modelname' did not produce a results file. No output is available. Cell A5"

Any ideas?

[Fatnes]

I've talked with ANSYS Support and they can't help much about the error code. According to them their error codes are very general. In my case the solver runs smootly, converging within the first coeff. loop in every timestep, but suddenly it get convergense problems. After a few timesteps the solver stops with the following message (see attachment)

[nellio75]

Hello,

It could be a problem of memory : what is your physical memory on which type of machine? example : Linux with 2 Dual core (2.4MHz) 8GB ram : could you tell me what are the characteristics on your machine and what kind of calculation are you running : is it a parallel local PVM methode ? with how many partitions?
And during the 15 Timesteps look at the memory used by your solver? How much?

Bye

Bye

[joey2007]

255 may be some network error with parallelization. If you start a second run with exactly same settings, crashes again?

[mehrdadeng]

hi dears
i have this error too.my hardware is:
4 Gb ram - cpu: intel quad 4000

it worked correctly.but i dont know that why this erro occurs.

[mehrdadeng]

i thought the error be due to runing the simulation with previous parameters.
i changed inlet boundry condition but dont solve this error.
this error is displayed when out file comes to "solve" in cfx-solver monitors
i was ran this simululation with mpi parallel method but now this error occurs
how can solve this error
below posts display my simulation information


please remark

[mehrdadeng]

this simulation is consist of 2 domain .blade domain(az immers domain) and housing domain(az fluid domain)

[mehrdadeng]

domains parameters:
further more i tested solid domain instead of immerse domain but occurs above mentioned error

[mehrdadeng]

housing doman information:

[mehrdadeng]

inlet boundry condition:
inlet and outlet boundry condition has been defined on housing domain(fluid domain)

[mehrdadeng]

outlet boundry condition and solver control parameters:

[mehrdadeng]

how can solve this problem?

[mehrdadeng]

messages that have been appeared in cfx-pre.i dont know couse of this messages because i defined only rotation for immerse domain but message says that ...

[yochule]

i'm having the same problem. with the same sign. i start running a case and i saw all the monitors decreasing smothly....but in any time the cfx-solver stop with this 255 error code.
i think is a strange error, because if i change an imput parameter just a little (ie: 4 to 5 m/s inlet, or 100 to 105 rpm) the solution converge.
so, i try changing some parameters. but i know that this is not the solution of this problem....
can you fix it?
regards

[ghorrocks]

It almost certainly means the solver has diverged. In fact the divergence is bad enough that it got a divide by zero error and crashed the solver. You will need to improve the numerical stability of the solution.

[salilharris2]

I am doing flow analysis of a mixed flow compressor. It basically has a centrifugal impeller. I get the same error code 255 with no output file generated.

Only the 'dx' and 'dy' comes in the equation. If a divide by zero error comes, the problem should lie in the meshing. Any other suggestion???

If a divergence comes, the design values may not be right... A few changes should rectify the problem.

But my problem is that, with the same design values, i can generate results in fluent... why not in cfx...

And what exactly is this error???

The above mentioned posts are not much convincing

[salilharris2]

In my case of mixed flow compressor, i had to entered mass flow rate through out the coImpressor. Instead i had to enter flow through the passage.

eg:- no. of blades - 22
total mass flow rate - 2.7
mass flow per passage - 2.7/22

with all the other conditions correct, the heavy mass flow rate of 2.7 per passage, was reducing the numerical stability of the problem.

Considering the CFD equations for turbo machines, the mass flow rate comes along with the constants. This error has made the numerator very high and denominator remains very small for fine meshing; resulting in high divergence of the equations. So, the software gave me an error code 255, terminating the iterations. This error should be because of huge divergence. Not necessarily divide by zero.

error code 255 in cfx is caused due to numerical instability of the equations. The above post is right. But many meanings are there to numerical instability. Since every case is different

[jakubas]

I have the same error while modeling reacting flow for coal gasification. Slight change in mass flow rates leads to crush. After changing parameteres to previous values (or much higher values) CFX cannot converge. In my case calculations are terminated at 7-9th iteration