Heating a metal wire

[SnappyTitan]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your response. I think I follow your explanation. Though, I will have to look more into the suggested methods as I'm not very familiar with them.

On the topic of convergence, I'm running into an issue now with my new setup. Basically, I extended the length of the wire from 8mm to 16mm and BCs to 850K with everything else remained the same. The heat solver won't converge. I have played around with different combinations of the Solver method, system preconditioning, and relaxation factor as suggested in the manual but nothing seems to work. The convergence history always periodic. One example is below. I set the maximum output to 50 but I didn't see anything weird; though I couldn't make sense with a lot of them. Could you or someone provide some hints on how can I approach this?



Thanks much!!

unv file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SZ9gt ... SqbsU-5r_D
Convergence Historyhttps://photos.app.goo.gl/azJDESJkmWJfVV8a7

[kevinarden]

Yes I agree the heat equation has to have a boundary condition, but a specified temperature conducts into the metal which is not the intent in this case.

[raback]

Hi

Probably problem is thermal conductivity being function of temperature. Add some relaxation. For example, set both Solvers to have "nonlinear system max iterations = 1" and "nonlinear system relaxation factor = 0.5".

-Peter

[SnappyTitan]

Yes I agree the heat equation has to have a boundary condition, but a specified temperature conducts into the metal which is not the intent in this case.

Hi Kevin,

My goal for this study is to compare how well the model fits to the published results : thermal trending, resistance, etc... I'm not sure if this is the right way to go about it since this is my first actual project excluding the tutorials. But as you and Peter suggested, I will need to find a different way to go about it for the next step since the BCs aren't known in advance.

[SnappyTitan]

Hi

Probably problem is thermal conductivity being function of temperature. Add some relaxation. For example, set both Solvers to have "nonlinear system max iterations = 1" and "nonlinear system relaxation factor = 0.5".

-Peter

Hi Peter,

I setup a script to loop through the parameters. The values that produced convergence are
HeatSolver: Nonlinear System Max Iteration= 5
Nonlinear Relax Factor = 0.1
StatCurrentSolver: Nonlinear System Max Iteration = 1-5
Nonlinear Relax Factor =0.1-0.7

However, only the heat equation converged after >200 iteration steps. The static current oscillated about the relative change = 0.1. This is confusing to me. I thought the simulation only stopped when both solvers converged or the steady state Max iteration reached the limit.