So I am working on a incompressible CFD Simulation of a building complex and still have a convergence issue since in every plot the values seem to be oscillating. It seems to be stable around a median so my question is do you have any ideas how to smooth the fluctuation out and also the general question if it’s “safe” to work with the median if nothing else works?
I am talking about Run 12, Mesh 11 inside the following project:
I already tried a lot of things like increasing the simulation area, adding region refinements, changing pressure outlet between mean and fixed value, playing with absolute tolerance but nothing seems to work the way I want so I would very much appreciate any help
Hi there,
So I have been going through the project. I was able to remove the fluctuations in the residual plots by removing the boundary condition for no-slip. By default, any walls that do not have any specific boundary conditions, are assumed to be no-slip. So removing this boundary condition from the project helped in stabilising the residuals.
Well I did everything I personally could find in forums and threads but as this is my very first simulation I would never assume I did everything. That is the very reason I ask here in the forum for help. So thank you for your suggestion and the thread. We are never done learning
In my first CFD simulations I found ‘artistic’ inspiration when visualizing the colorful results of my failed attempts. Well, it was unintended by SimScale tool, however I understood that I need to overcome my ‘cognitive bias’ about ‘CFD is for everyone’. So called “automatic mesh” is useful, but it is perhaps 10% of simulation success.