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Now we will be dealing with the Solution section of FLUENT. Let's first specify look at the discretization method.

Solution > Solution Methods Under Spatial Discretization, change Momentum, Turbulent Kinetic Energy, Turbulent Dissipation Rate, Energy to Second Order Upwind

Let's use the default first order discretization method.
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Now let's us set look at the convergence criteria.

Solution > Monitors > Residuals - Print, Plot > Edit...

Enter convergence criteria of 1e6 for continuity, x-velocity, y-velocity, k and epsilon. Click OK to close the window.
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The default convergence criteria is set to 0.001. Let's click OK and use this default value.

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At this point, everything is set up properly. We just need to give an initial condition for FLUENT to start the calculation. 
Solution > Solution Initialization
Under Compute from, select Inlet and click Initialize.
 
Now we can solve for a solution. 
Solution > Run Calculation 
Enter 500 for Number of Iterations and click Calculate. You will see a window message saying Calculating the solution... Wait for FLUENT to finish the calculation. By the end of 500 iterations, all residuals converged to less than 1e6 except for continuity equationFLUENT obtain solution at about 83 iteration. Let's leave that for now and continue to check for our results and see if they make sensecheck out our result. Close FLUENT and return to Workbench.

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