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Knowledge Base

1 - CAD Preparation (28)

How to Close Terrain Holes in Rhino?
How to Create Cell Zones?
How to Prepare and Upload Implicit Geometry from nTop to SimScale?
How to Create a Simulation Template Using NS_ Tags?
How to Change the Geometry While Maintaining Assignments (CAD Associativity)?
How to Import a SketchUp Model as an STL for PWC and Incompressible LBM Analysis?
The Mesher Doesn’t Respect the Mesh Size
Why Can’t I See My Model in the Workbench?
Can I Restore a Deleted Project?
Why Do Geometry Operations Fail?
How to Import Geometries From Fusion 360?
How to Upload an STL File With Layers?
How To Export A Model With Terrain From Revit?
How to Export a Model From Revit to SimScale?
How to Download a Geometry from SimScale?
How to Find Faults in the CAD Model?
How to Prepare the Fluid Region for Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations?
How to Export a File as an STL From Rhino?
How To Make A Revit Model Ready For Pedestrian Wind Comfort Analysis Using SimScale?
How to Prepare the CAD for Simulating Rotating Zones?
How Does Pedestrian Wind Comfort Analysis Type Deal With Complex Geometry at the Boundary?
How to Extend Terrain With an Example in Rhino?
How to Add Topology or Terrain to a Pedestrian Wind Comfort Analysis?
How to Deal With Geometry Details and Features for Pedestrian Wind Comfort Analysis?
Basic Geometry Requirements for Pedestrian Wind Comfort
How To Choose the Seed Face Properly?
How Can I Upload an Assembly to SimScale?
How to Simplify a Revit Model for CFD?

2 - Mesh (9)

Analysis of Pressure Drop Best Practice for Internal Flows
Best Practices for Multi-purpose Mesher
Mesh Sensitivity Study for CFD Simulations
The Mesher Doesn’t Respect the Mesh Size
How to Visualize the Mesh in a PWC Analysis?
How to Check and Improve Mesh Quality?
How to Tell When and Where the Simulation Starts Diverging?
How to Visualize the Internal Mesh Using Mesh Clip?
How To Define Dimensions of Refinements During Meshing?

3 - Fluid Analysis (64)

How to Access SimScale Using Single Sign-On (SSO)?
How Can I Perform One-Way FSI Analysis Using SimScale?
When Are Core Hours Deducted from your Account?
Analysis of Pressure Drop Best Practice for Internal Flows
How to Manage Account in SimScale?
How to Obtain Heat Fluxes and Heat Transfer Coefficients from the Simulation Results?
How to Create a Simulation Template Using NS_ Tags?
How to Run Parametric Studies in SimScale?
How to Change the Geometry While Maintaining Assignments (CAD Associativity)?
Mesh Sensitivity Study for CFD Simulations
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Inlet for Incompressible LBM
How to Detect Transient Behavior in Steady-State Simulations?
How to set the Time Step Delta T in Transient CFD Simulations?
How to Determine the Time Step Size for Transient Output in LBM Simulations?
How to set up Climate Ceiling and Radiant Panels in Thermal Comfort Analysis?
How to Add Materials and Initialize the Domain in Multiphase Simulations?
How to Analyze Multiple Wind Configurations in a PWC Simulation?
Why Does the Workbench Get Slow?
What Are Core Hours?
Extending the Inlets and Outlets for a CFD Simulation
How do I Model a Fan Curve in SimScale?
How Do I Set Up a Successful Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulation?
Can I Continue an Existing Simulation Run in SimScale?
How to Model Wall Roughness in CFD?
Why Are My Lift And Drag Coefficients Too Big/Small?
How to Control Simulation Time and Timestep in LBM Analysis?
How To Assess a Pressure Drop in the Post-Processor?
How to Set up a Transient Convective Heat Transfer Simulation?
How to Model the Ground Roughness in Incompressible Analysis?
How to Set up an Atmospheric Boundary Layer in CFD Simulations?
Selection via the Viewer (Tips & Tricks)
How Does Surface Roughness Affect PWC Results?
How to Set Orthotropic Thermal Parameters?
How to Control Simulation Time and Timestep in PWC Analysis?
How to Tell When and Where the Simulation Starts Diverging?
How Many Wind Directions Should I Run for a Pedestrian Wind Comfort Analysis?
How To Choose Between Rotating Zone and Rotating Wall?
How to Prepare the Fluid Region for Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations?
How to Predict Linear and Exponent Coefficients for a Power Law Porous Media?
How Does Pedestrian Wind Comfort Analysis Type Deal With Complex Geometry at the Boundary?
How to Set the Right Thermal Wall Conditions in CHT Without Using Radiation?
What Does (φ) Flux and T1 stand for?
What Happens If a Power Source Partially Intersects with a Domain?
How to Control, Export, and Analyze Y+ During Meshing, Simulation, and Post-Processing?
How to Choose Between Wall Resolution and Wall Modelling?
How to Add Topology or Terrain to a Pedestrian Wind Comfort Analysis?
How To Analyze the Pitch, Lift, and Drag Coefficients?
How to Assign Wall and Window Settings for Thermal Comfort Simulations?
How to Predict Darcy and Forchheimer Coefficients for Perforated Plates Using Experimental Data?
How to Predict Darcy and Forchheimer Coefficients for Perforated Plates Using Analytical Approach?
What is a Courant Number?
How to Use the Porous Media Feature to Define a Perforated Plate?
How To Define Custom Materials In SimScale?
How To Calculate Heat Dissipation In Watts?
What Can Be the Reasons for Unrealistic Velocity Values in the Simulation?
What Happens When You Assign Sources to Multiple Faces/Components?
How to Mesh a Multiphase Flow Analysis Study?
Why Do Multiphase Simulations Take So Long?
How Can I Upload a STAT File for a PWC Analysis?
Is It Possible to Add Only One Inlet Flow and One Outlet Flow to a Domain?
What Does Imprint Do?
How To Create Flow Volume Extraction?
How to Define Symmetry Conditions?
Why Do We Need to Inflate Boundary Layers on Walls?

4 - Structural Analysis (30)

How to Create Conditional Expressions in FEA Simulations?
What Is Fictitious clearance?
How to Access SimScale Using Single Sign-On (SSO)?
How Can I Perform One-Way FSI Analysis Using SimScale?
When Are Core Hours Deducted from your Account?
How to Obtain Sound Emissions from a Harmonic Simulation?
How to Simulate Fatigue with SimScale?
How to Manage Account in SimScale?
How to Create a Simulation Template Using NS_ Tags?
How to Change the Geometry While Maintaining Assignments (CAD Associativity)?
How to Compute the Coefficients for Rayleigh Damping?
How to Mesh Thin Wall Parts for Heat Transfer Simulations?
How to Add Multiple Load Cases in a Linear Statics Simulation?
Why Does the Workbench Get Slow?
How To Set Up the Time Step for a Dynamic Impact Analysis?
What Are Core Hours?
Can I Download the Deformed Shape in an FEA Simulation?
How to Model Welds in Simulations?
How Do I Calculate Additional Results in FEA (Heat flux, Reaction Force)?
How to See Displacements in Structural Simulations?
Why Do Parts Collide in Nonlinear Static Simulations?
Selection via the Viewer (Tips & Tricks)
How to Set a Transient Heat Transfer Simulation?
When Should I Use an Absolute Residual in Structural Analysis?
When Do I Need a Dynamic Analysis?
How To Define Custom Materials In SimScale?
How to Define Symmetry Conditions?
Which Surface Should I Select as the Master in a Contact Pair?
When Do I Need a Nonlinear Static Analysis?
Which Type of Finite Element Should I use?

5 - Post Processing (18)

How to Simulate Electric Arcing?
How to Use the Plot over Line Feature in Paraview?
How to Simulate Fatigue with SimScale?
Mesh Sensitivity Study for CFD Simulations
Field Calculator Filter in Post-processing
How Can I Assess the Volume or Surface of My Model? 
How to Analyze Multiple Wind Configurations in a PWC Simulation?
How To Add Custom Camera Position in the Post-processor?
What Is the Difference between Cell and Node Data in the Post-processor?
How to See Displacements in Structural Simulations?
Why Are My Lift And Drag Coefficients Too Big/Small?
How To Assess a Pressure Drop in the Post-Processor?
How to Generate Particle Traces and Slices in PWC Analysis?
What Are the Scalar Names in the Post-Processor?
How to Plot Vectors on a Plane?
How to Change the Range on the Legend Bar?
What Is the Difference Between Average and Transient Results?
How to Check Convergence of a CFD Simulation?

6 - Event Log Warnings and Errors (42)

Error: Incorrect Rotating Zone
Error: Concurrent Job Limit Exceeded
Error: Table is Not Rectangular
Error: Time Step Bigger Than the Simulation Interval
Error: Static Load in Nonlinear Analysis Case
Error: MRF Interface Was Assigned Boundary Condition
Error: Mesh Too Coarse for the GAMG Solver
Memory Allocation Error
Error: Incorrect Usage of Empty 2D Boundary Condition
Why a PWC Simulation Fails?
Error: Surface Meshing Self-Intersection
Error: Multible Bodies in Non-CHT CFD Simulations
Error: Unexpected TE for Cell Zone
Error: Unexpected Bounding Box for Internal Mesh
Error: Cell Zones With Multi-Region Mesh
Error: Maximum Run Time Exceeds Computation Limit (PWC)
Error: MUMPS Residual Not Achieved
Error: Insufficient Mesh Resolution for Turbulence Modeling
Error: Conformal Meshing Cannot Be Generated With Overlapping Entities
Error: Invalid Initial and Boundary Conditions for Pressure
Error: No Convergence in Nonlinear Thermal Simulation
Error: Result Control Assigned to Non-Assignable Face
Error: Mesh Too Coarse
Error: Maximum Number of Iterations Exceeded
Error: Shared Slave Nodes
Error: Redundant Contact Constraint
Error: Newton Convergence Could Not Be Reached
Error: Connection to Server Interrupted or Result Stuck in Loading
Error: Out of Memory
Error: Matrix is Singular / Not Factorizable
Error: Material Point Is Out of Bounds
Error: Material Law Integration
Error: A Keyword is Undefined in Dictionary
Error: Instance Hard Disk Full
Error: Incorrect Patch Definition for Cyclic/Periodic Boundaries
Error: Inconsistent Patch and PatchField Types Found
Error: Floating Point Exception
Error: Fixed Point Convergence
Error: An Error Occurred
Error: Continuity Error Encountered Cannot be Removed
Error: Cell Type 22 not Supported
Error: Time Step Below Threshold

7 - Organization Account (2)

How to Claim a Domain for Your Organization?
What Are My Rights as an Administrator with an Organization Account in SimScale?

8- Miscellaneous (1)

Using a 3D Mouse (Space Mouse) in SimScale

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