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[José Mantovani]

Hello everyone!

I make a cavitation simulation through a venturi tube. I dont have much experience with this type of simulation, and I want know how do to get a good convergence. I used the Schnerr-Sauer cavitation model with Realizable k-epsilon turbulence model. I create a unstructured mesh with inflation layer at walls. Below have a image with flow solution in 500 iterations and the controls settings. 

I noticed a behavior of the solution and scribbled up the graph. How can I improve convergence? Perhaps performing a simulation without the multiphase model and obtaining convergence to later connect the cavitation model and simulate? Can anyone give me tips on this?

I did not turn on the energy equation, but I'm trying to simulate a part of a system in which the venturi has, and in the actual experiment there is a temperature increase throughout the experiment, if I turn on the energy equation I'm going to get that temperature increase ?

Also, for this type of simulation is there a better mesh type? Structured or unstructured?

Another thing I noticed is that when opening the results in the CFD Post I did not get data like pressure and vapor fraction, this error occurred to me before when I simulated cavitation in orifice plates according to the tutorial of Raef Kobeissi, creating another file and doing everything again it's works, I do not know why this error/bug occurs.

Thanks for the help!

Mantovani. 

[DrAmine]

Use another implicit under-relaxation (Pseudo-Transient) + altering some explicit under-relaxation factors (especially for vaporization and density)+small time scales (very conservative). 

 

Structured grids are always preferred whenever the flow is depicting a main flow direction or when you are trying to explicitly resolve some features /scales.. (less diffusive than other mesh topologies).

 

Please track other issues in different threads.

[José Mantovani]

Very thanks Abenhadj, I try to make this and soon I post here some results or possible new doubts about the numerical solution. I will do a structured mesh and use the Pseudo-Transient method with very small time scales. 

When you say about relaxation factors, should I go changing over the calculation or use a small value for every calculation?

Thanks again.

Regards,

Mantovani. 

[DrAmine]

URF's are case dependent but do not influence the final results but might influence the way to final results. Stick first of all to pseudo-transient approach. 

[José Mantovani]

Okay Abenhadj, I will try this now.

Thanks,

Mantovani.