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by tzwinger
22 Oct 2010, 08:26
Forum: General
Topic: Application fields of Elmer
Replies: 37
Views: 73378

Re: Application fields of Elmer

There are about 10 - 20 users (with a core of about 5 high level users) in Earth Sciences, mainly in Geophysical Fluid Mechanics in Glaciology, spread over the globe that I think should be presented in this statistics.
by tzwinger
18 Oct 2010, 22:24
Forum: ElmerPost
Topic: How to display an additional field variable?
Replies: 8
Views: 13403

Re: How to display an additional field variable?

Dear Peter, Apparently things go wrong if a variable with the name Density is added by SaveMaterials. I have the suspicion that this is connected to the fact that Density is in the Elmer keyword database (hence a reserved name). If you give it another name, like for instance Dichte , and simply assi...
by tzwinger
18 Oct 2010, 16:14
Forum: ElmerPost
Topic: How to display an additional field variable?
Replies: 8
Views: 13403

Re: How to display an additional field variable?

Dear Peter, I could reply your error with a different, but similar case. When I drop the SaveMaterials (Exec Solver = Never), the run survives. Can you confirm that this is also the case for you? I checked with a debugger, but actually did not find an issue directly in SaveMaterials. Will try to hav...
by tzwinger
18 Oct 2010, 09:41
Forum: ElmerSolver
Topic: communication between partitions in parallel
Replies: 5
Views: 3897

Re: communication between partitions in parallel

Hi Lionel, in parallel computing communication (i.e., utilizing the MPI calls) is the main cause of performance limits. The less your parallel tasks have to talk to each other, the more they can spend on doing the number-crunching. Especially if you use blocking communication (when often CPU's are i...
by tzwinger
16 Oct 2010, 19:45
Forum: Installation & compilation
Topic: (last module) fem does not compile.
Replies: 2
Views: 4717

Re: (last module) fem does not compile.

For the RHEL 5 issue with the completely outdated gcc version. ASFAIK there is a gcc test-package within RHEL 5 that has a version of gcc that already has the needed feature ...
by tzwinger
25 Feb 2010, 10:27
Forum: Installation & compilation
Topic: user-defined library segmentation fault
Replies: 4
Views: 6296

Re: user-defined library segmentation fault

Hi,
hard to tell without debugging info where things go wrong. As a first try I'd take out the "Eliminate Dirichlet". If you have a pathological case, you could send it to me.

Cheers,

Thomas
by tzwinger
24 Nov 2009, 15:12
Forum: ElmerSolver
Topic: Modelling turbulent flow
Replies: 2
Views: 5503

Re: Modelling turbulent flow

Martijn, I am astonished that you get convergence at all, especially with the higher Re-numbers. perhaps you could take 2 measures: 1) switch in a turbulence model (k-epsilon, for instance) 2) try to resolve (I do not know how fine your mesh is now) finer around the cylinders And finally, some effec...
by tzwinger
24 Nov 2009, 14:20
Forum: ElmerSolver
Topic: derivative wrt normal vector
Replies: 5
Views: 7726

Re: derivative wrt normal vector

Hi Suren, (i) In the NS-source code I can see an internal subroutine LCondensate (for nb > 0) ... what does that do actually? I have coded without this... but got a good result in case of Newtonian fluid (flow law exponent n =1)... including this subroutine doesn't affect/improve the outcomes... Thi...
by tzwinger
09 Sep 2009, 08:59
Forum: Installation & compilation
Topic: Installing Elmer on Debian Lenny
Replies: 7
Views: 13638

Re: Installing Elmer on Debian Lenny

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe Debian 5.0 provides both VTK (libvtk5-qt4-dev) and OpenCascade (libopencascade-dev). See also http://www.elmerfem.org/wiki/index.php/Debian/Ubuntu_Packages I think the OpenCascade package for Lenny is to be found in Adam Powell's repository (see http://www.opennovat...