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Hello there,

I am also having the same problem. I was given a model that was constructed on a previous version of Comsol, which apparently ran fine in that version. Now when I run it in Comsol 4.2a I get the error:

Failed to find a solution.
In segregated group 2:
The relative error (1.3e+002) is greater than the relative tolerance.
Returned solution is not converged.


Is there something I have to change in the model to make it compatible with my version of Comsol?

Thank you for your time,
Carolyn.

Hi

I experience often issues when loading older version , at lest for rather complex ones, so I tend to rebuild them fully.

But you have a few possibilities, try to rebuild new solvers (or make new Study nodes)) and solve with them, and in any case check the segregated solver sequence, sometimes, if you edit the solver sequence, COMSOl flags it a s a custom solver sequence and expect the user to re-edit it regularly, sometimes dependent variables get missed out and you only need to add them in again

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Good luck
Ivar

Hi

Your problem interested me so much that I downloaded your model file. My first impression was that your mesh is rather sparse. I changed the user-defined mesh, "General physics" to "Fluid dynamics" with the "Coarse" size. Then there was 108305 elements, hence 10-fold of yours. Then I changed in Solver configuration => Solver 1 => Stationary solver => Iterative 1 => Multigrid 1 => Mesh coarsening factor: 1. Thanks to Jukka in Comsol Helsinki office for telling me this hint!

You inlet velocity, 0.25 m/s sounded so high that I changed that to 0.025 m/s. The solution was reached in 10 minutes, but when I tried with 0.25 m/s, the solution did not converge. Hence, the reason might be physical. There may some turbulence in the corners of the thin pipe line, but your original mesh was so sparse that it did not see it. Maybe I am wrong, but you should have at least 4 layers in z direction in the larger domain to make velocity profile meaningful. Due to the five pipelines into the large domain, a swept mesh cannot be done (at least I was not able to accomplish it).

Fluid dynamics is, according to my experience, one of the most difficult phenomena to simulate. Therefore, there are several software packages around just for CFD.

Keep the faith!
Lasse

Thanks, Ivar. The model is simple, so I may just try rebuilding it for the sake of convenience. Thank you again for your help.

Dear Lasse,

I am facing similar issues while solving for piezo and acoustic coupling. WHat do you suggest?
I do not find the
" in Solver configuration => Solver 1 => Stationary solver => Iterative 1 => Multigrid 1 => Mesh coarsening factor: 1." option in my system.
Would be glad if someone can help!

Thanks,
Regards,
Megha

I am doing a Laminar flow problem in a 3-D micro-channel.
My convergence plot doesn't even start niether I get any error.

Have you solved the problem “relative error ist bigger than tolerence"?