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Hello, everyone!
I am quite new to OpenFoam and have been having a really hard time with a simulation of a 3D tank with 3 impellers when using interFoam. More precisely, the problem is that the Courant number increases suddenly and the simulation stops. Initially I thought that my mesh is the problem, but when I perform the "checkMesh -allGeometry -allTopology -writeAllFields" command it looks quite fine: "Checking geometry... Overall domain bounding box (-1.76084 -9.59407 -1.75941) (1.76027 0.0338586 1.75886) Mesh has 3 geometric (non-empty/wedge) directions (1 1 1) Mesh has 3 solution (non-empty) directions (1 1 1) Boundary openness (-2.30972e-15 -3.47421e-17 1.02735e-15) OK. Max cell openness = 3.75366e-16 OK. Max aspect ratio = 20.488 OK. Minimum face area = 0.000160125. Maximum face area = 0.0480543. Face area magnitudes OK. Min volume = 2.70491e-05. Max volume = 0.00213372. Total volume = 91.8957. Cell volumes OK. Mesh non-orthogonality Max: 68.7956 average: 11.4968 Non-orthogonality check OK. Face pyramids OK. Max skewness = 2.99374 OK. Coupled point location match (average 0) OK. Face tets OK. Min/max edge length = 0.00124611 0.339891 OK. <<Writing 8 near (closer than 1.08385e-05 apart) points to set nearPoints *There are 777 faces with concave angles between consecutive edges. Max concave angle = 62.9378 degrees. <<Writing 777 faces with concave angles to set concaveFaces Face flatness (1 = flat, 0 = butterfly) : min = 0.754877 average = 0.999371 *There are 10 faces with ratio between projected and actual area < 0.8 Minimum ratio (minimum flatness, maximum warpage) = 0.754877 <<Writing 10 warped faces to set warpedFaces Cell determinant (wellposedness) : minimum: 0.00185793 average: 0.183088 Cell determinant check OK. ***Concave cells (using face planes) found, number of cells: 3060 <<Writing 3060 concave cells to set concaveCells Face interpolation weight : minimum: 0.1792 average: 0.478164 Face interpolation weight check OK. Face volume ratio : minimum: 0.0522973 average: 0.895213 Face volume ratio check OK. Failed 1 mesh checks. ". Should I go on with work on the mesh or should I look somewhere else? PS: I am using snappyHexMesh to get the mesh. Thanks in advance! ![]() |
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Nikos
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Hi,
You should put a limit in the Courant number by adjusting the time step in cotrolDict: Code:
maxCo 1.0; adjustTimeStep yes; Nikos |
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interfoam, meshing, snappyhexmesh |
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