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Turbulent Pipe Flow - Panel
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Click here for the FLUENT 6.3.26 version.

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Change the Discretization for Momentum, Turbulence Kinetic Energy and Turbulence Dissipation Rate equations to Second Order Upwind (if you do not see all of the equations scroll down to see them).


The order of discretization that we just set refers to the convective terms in the equations; the discretization of the viscous terms is always second-order accurate in FLUENT. Second-order discretization generally yields better accuracy while first-order discretization yields more robust convergence. If the second-order scheme doesn't converge, you can try starting the iterations with the first-order scheme and switching to the second-order scheme after some iterations.

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Recall that FLUENT reports a residual for each governing equation being solved. The residual is a measure of how well the current solution satisfies the discrete form of each governing equation. We'll iterate the solution until the residual for each equation falls below 1e-6.

Solution > Monitors > Residuals, Statistic and Force Monitors

Double click on Residuals.Notice that Convergence Criterion has to be set for the k and epsilon equations in addition to the three equations in the last tutorial. Set the Convergence Criterion to be 1e-06 for all five equations being solved.

Select Print to Console and Plot under Options (these are the defaults). This will print as well plot the residuals as they are calculated which you will use to monitor convergence.


 

Click OK.

Set Initial Guess

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