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What the desirable discretization methods with higher Rayleigh number ?
Posted 05.10.2021, 06:56 GMT-4 Heat Transfer & Phase Change, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Version 5.6 1 Reply
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Hello all I am modelling natural convection in a closed enclosure 2D geometry. I employed two physics Laminar Flow+Heat Transfer in fluids. My simulation is well when Ra<1E6 but as soon as I make Ra = 1E8 the solution take a long time and iteration is finished without converage? What do you recommend for best discretization methods for Laminar flow and heat transfer may let me get the solution converage? knowing that I am running unsteady case with a time step of 0.001 s?
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Recommend fully coupled for any natural convection problem due to strong coupling between temperature and flow. As far as discretization method, using linear is OK, but will required more mesh detail. Using any higher order discretization (quadratic, cubic, etc.), will give you more accuracy for less mesh, but also puts higher demands overall due to the increased bandwidh and coupling in the Jacobian matrix. I would recommend doing the best you can with linear elements to start, then bump up the discretization order with the same mesh until your results are mesh independent and you are satisfied with the results.
-------------------James D. Freels, Ph.D., P.E.