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Fail to find convergence when scaling down radiation problem

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Hi !

I'm trying to compute how the temperature changes around a particle "hanging" in air using the HT with "Surface to surface" radiation and Transient solution.
The outer surface of the biggest circle is given a BC og 20 degC and the particles initial temperature is 5000 degC

The model works nicely when using a circle 2 cm of silica glass in diameter (best fit material in database), surrounded by a 20 cm circle of air.

When scaling the model down it crashes imidiately giving the following message for the time dependent solver:
Failed to find consistent initial values.
Last time step is not converged.

Changing the particle temperature to 1000 degC gives a solution, so I'm thinking this has to do with some scaling issue.

Have been reading a lot of posts here on the forum and tried suggestions given there, but still I get a failure.

I'm new to COMSOL so I was hoping some of you experienced users could provide me with some tips and tricks to get a solution.

Sorry for the long post - thanks alot for your help

Nils Eivind

1 Reply Last Post 21 ott 2010, 05:42 GMT-4
Ivar KJELBERG COMSOL Multiphysics(r) fan, retired, former "Senior Expert" at CSEM SA (CH)

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Posted: 1 decade ago 21 ott 2010, 05:42 GMT-4
Hi

If you have a non linear problem (and radiation exchange is rather of that kind) it's often usefull to get to your point by a parametric sweep to ramp gently your temperature or whatever variable to the final value

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Hi If you have a non linear problem (and radiation exchange is rather of that kind) it's often usefull to get to your point by a parametric sweep to ramp gently your temperature or whatever variable to the final value -- Lykke til Ivar

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