Hi I am a undergraduate student doing my honours project on fluent.

I am looking at the effects of the collapse of a wave on a beach and effects on the beach as this wave flows rushes up and down the beach.

I am using the 2d Volume of Fluid simulation in fluent 6 and I have adapted a region in my mesh and patched it with water to represent the wave collapsing onto the beach, however when I run the simulation I have to use a very small time step inorder for results to converge.

At present my time step is 5e-08 and after 7860 iteration the flow time is only 0.001366s seconds and it seems like it is taking an eternity to run and due to a lack of licences this is a major problem.

I was wondering if i have maybe made a mistake in setting up my simulation and i would be very grateful for any help given.

My mesh is a simple rectanglur channel 0.55 meters by 6 meters. The mesh spacing is 0.005.

My solver settings are: 2d, segregrated, implicit, time - unsteady, velocity - absolute, 1st order, cell based, superficial.

Multiphase - Volume of fluid. 2 phases; air and water, water patch into region.

K-epsilion viscous model used. Momentum and Energy models not changed.

Operating conditions - Pressure located at top of mesh. Gravity is on on with X=0 m/s-2 and Y = -9.81 m/s-, specific gravity = 1.225.

Boundary conditions - all verticies are walls.

The turbulent velocity is 0 and in the solution control- Pressure discretization is standard and PISO is the Pressure-Velocity Coupling method.

Please reply to this post if you can help or email me at u11djs2@abdn.ac.uk to get in touch.

Yours sincerely David

To make easier your calculations:

use slip condition at the wall. For the begining set the surface tension to zero.

perform a calculation without VOF, to make the flow and the turbulence quantities converged. For that you can use a relatively high time step, and one iteration per time step. If this is not ok, you might have a problem with the turbulence calculations. So check that.

Once this is converged, switch VOF on, start your calculation (with surface tension). With small time step 10-4, and 10-20 iterations per time step.

Keep in touch.

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