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#I have a message "Turbulent viscosity limited to viscosity ratio of 1.000000e+05 in xxx cells.How can i fix this error message in ansys fluent.

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Sepideh Bazari
Imam Khomeini International University

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Hi,
This is the sign that your solution is diverging. You can ignore the message if the number of cells where it crosses the limit is just a very small fraction of your total number of cells. If the cell count is significant, you can try doing this
1) Refine mesh where you expect sharp velocity gradients
2) Reduce the relaxation factors
3) Reduce the time step size and increase number of iterations per time step if you are running a transient case.
4) Also check the applicability of the turbulence model you are using for your problem.
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Meda Tomasz
Military Institute of Armament Technology, Zielonka, Poland
Hi,
that message is often when you use to high Courant noumber or order of equations at begining. Try to increase "stability" of your solution by many iterations at lower parameters and then increase the parameters.
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Hi,
This is the sign that your solution is diverging. You can ignore the message if the number of cells where it crosses the limit is just a very small fraction of your total number of cells. If the cell count is significant, you can try doing this
1) Refine mesh where you expect sharp velocity gradients
2) Reduce the relaxation factors
3) Reduce the time step size and increase number of iterations per time step if you are running a transient case.
4) Also check the applicability of the turbulence model you are using for your problem.
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Franco Concli
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
You can try reducing the Co number alias the time step or initializing the solution with the results of a steady calculation.
F.
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Siamak Agahzamin
Lakehead University Thunder Bay Campus
Hi Sepideh,
In the initialization panel, reduce the default values of k and e from 1 to 0.001.
Best,
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Sepideh Bazari
Imam Khomeini International University
@ Hardik Mistry Thank you for your comprehensive answers
Sepideh Bazari
Imam Khomeini International University
Siamak Agahzamin Franco Concli @ Merda Tomasz :thanks for your answers
Muhammad Furqan Ali
Beijing University of Chemical Technology
In my opinion, keeping above suggestions in mind, you should consider boundary conditions too. Because of setting reasonable boundary conditions other parameters will behave in range accordingly.
Regards
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Shazia Farman Ali
London South Bank University
Check your mesh (especially near corners or edges) or boundary conditions (at outlet). Above message is created by ANSYS when the ratio of turbulent viscosity and the laminar viscosity exceeds 1e5. Is there any outlet in your geometry?? probabaly thats where this backflow is happening. let the simulation run and it should disappear after some iterations.
if not u can reduce URF or u can goto soluiton control/ limits/ max tub vis and add few zeros but All this is not recommended and will effect your results.
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Suraj Garad
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
@Hardik mistry and all,
I have tried all options but still stuck with this error. Is this an error, as my solution is getting converged but the "turbulent viscosity limited to ... " is for around 50% of total cell count
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I got stuck during a ansys fluent simulation for a PCM based heat sink.
Kindly help me out
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Meda Tomasz
Military Institute of Armament Technology, Zielonka, Poland
Did you work on high order equations? Sometimes it is better to start at first order equation and when calculations were stabilized then use higher order. Not every order of equation can give the solution. Also check quality of mesh and size of the element.
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Sepideh Bazari
Imam Khomeini International University

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