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Last post: February 28, 2012 11:43pm UTC
February 1, 2012 10:26pm UTC
"Nonlinear solver did not converge"
Hi
I am trying to model a tapering tube through which a cell moves along with the liquid. I want to study the fluid as well as the cell dynamics. I used Fluid-Structure interaction, time-dependent solver for the same. It is a fine, physics-controlled mesh. When I run the simulation, there is an error in a short while saying "Nonlinear solver did not converge." And it also says trying to find real sqrt of negative number.
When I try at finer or extremely fine mesh resolution, it says, requested mesh quality could not be achieved.
When the same simulation was carried out in an even tube, without tapering, these errors did not arise.
What could be causing the problem? How do I correct it?
Best
Renu
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February 2, 2012 6:24am UTC in response to Renu Krishna
Re: "Nonlinear solver did not converge"
Hi
when you have a "particle" moving in a fluid you will ahve large deformation of the mesh from the motion of the particles, this is probably what is giving you trouble, as you need a fine mesh to resolve the flow aspects, and a coarse mesh to allow it todistort without inversing. These two conditions are obviously in contradiction.
I would suggest that you try first to use the new particle flow, based on the fluid solving alone to give the velocity field and then track how a particle will follol this flow. This assumes in practivce that your fluid is not influenced by the particles and their size, even if this is probably not fully true, its a good starting point. And this would allow you to estimates velocities and mesh size time to defome, and help you to define a "remishing" conditions that is probably the only way out, but it's rather slow to solve ;)
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Good luck
Ivar
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February 2, 2012 10:52pm UTC in response to Ivar Kjelberg
Re: "Nonlinear solver did not converge"
Thanks for the reply, Ivar.
I am now trying to model the same with a stationary cell at different points, using laminar flow alone.
The new error is "Expression could not be evaluated. And I found this in the log.
"Time-Dependent Solver 1 in Solver 1 started at 2-Feb-2012 14:48:45.
Nonsymmetric matrix found."
I am not using any variables in the model. The inlet velocity is also constant.
What is going wrong?
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February 3, 2012 6:40am UTC in response to Renu Krishna
Re: "Nonlinear solver did not converge"
Thanks for the reply, Ivar.
I am now trying to model the same with a stationary cell at different points, using laminar flow alone.
The new error is "Expression could not be evaluated. And I found this in the log.
"Time-Dependent Solver 1 in Solver 1 started at 2-Feb-2012 14:48:45.
Nonsymmetric matrix found."
I am not using any variables in the model. The inlet velocity is also constant.
What is going wrong?
can you please attach the model file. i will try to have a look at it ?
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February 3, 2012 7:35am UTC in response to Renu Krishna
Re: "Nonlinear solver did not converge"
Hi
I have noticed sometimes when you have done many changes and tests, COMSOL does no longer update the solver settings accordingly, this happens particularly when you change many things in the solver sequence, which COMSOL does not understand, and decides that you want to control the solver in detail, so it does no longer update everything.
In these cases, my way out is to delete the solver sequence and restart a fresh new one (but take care to save your results tree by pointing them to anot data set)
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Good luck
Ivar
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February 6, 2012 11:19pm UTC in response to Ivar Kjelberg
Re: "Nonlinear solver did not converge"
I am not able to upload the file on to this discussion forum.( File extension error)
Thanks Ivar, it helped. I modeled the same with stationary cell and observed the fluid flow, through laminar flow. Now I am trying to give the cell elastic nature through FSI module, and the time step is not converging again. I read in the forums that i need to use saved initial values from stationary solver. But I am not able to store the results from stationary solver and reuse it. How do I do this?
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February 6, 2012 11:31pm UTC in response to Renu Krishna
Re: "Nonlinear solver did not converge"
I am not able to upload the file on to this discussion forum.( File extension error)
Thanks Ivar, it helped. I modeled the same with stationary cell and observed the fluid flow, through laminar flow. Now I am trying to give the cell elastic nature through FSI module, and the time step is not converging again. I read in the forums that i need to use saved initial values from stationary solver. But I am not able to store the results from stationary solver and reuse it. How do I do this?
Here are my files. "Exp2" is the one with moving cell and "elasticell" is the one with fsi.
http://www.mediafire.com/?agfull3u2r5f6sb,7dcj9wz0k9tvqeg
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February 28, 2012 11:43pm UTC in response to Renu Krishna
Re: "Nonlinear solver did not converge"
I noticed a similar problem with the FSI, particularly with large deformations. It seems to have been exacerbated in 4.2a from 4.2. I have a feeling that has to do with the tolerance/iteration termination settings but have yet to resolve this issue.
I'd be interested in any possible solutions too.
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