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June 26, 2019, 04:49 |
Linear solvers in OpenFOAM
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Rahul
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Hey guys, I am doing a project on OpenFOAM simulating external flow over an airfoil. I am confused with various linear solvers available to solve the problem in the fvSoultion file.
Can anyone explain me the difference between GAMG and PCG solver for pressure and when is each one of them used? |
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June 26, 2019, 12:34 |
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Santiago Lopez Castano
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Geometric Agglomerated MultiGrid
Parallel Conjugate Gradient easy enough to look on the interwebs |
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June 27, 2019, 03:45 |
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Anton Kidess
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AFAIK -> PCG = Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient.
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June 27, 2019, 04:11 |
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Ruiyan Chen
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Interesting topic! You can check out the following link to get some insights.
https://www.openfoam.com/documentati...e-solvers.html Note there are GAMG preconditioners for PCG solvers, which is NOT the GAMG solver(belongs to the Multigrid solver catagory). By the way I remember some people stating that PCG solvers are better than GAMG for parallel computing. Is this true? What is the reason behind it? |
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July 2, 2019, 04:04 |
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More grids means more communication overhead. Not that important for small parallel simulations, but can become important for massive sims.
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July 2, 2019, 23:37 |
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Ruiyan Chen
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Thanks for the explanation!
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gamg, linear solver, pcg |
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