Error during computing radiation factors for heat transfer

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hennig
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Error during computing radiation factors for heat transfer

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Hello,

I'm making first attempts with heat transfer via radiation and started with a quite simple case comprising two plates. One acts as a source and one as a sink.

Unfortunately, the calculation stops during computation of the radiation factors for heat transfer (see SolverLog.txt attached).

Can somebody help?

Best regards

-Carsten
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Re: Error during computing radiation factors for heat transfer

Post by phopfgartner »

Could this be the same situation as in viewtopic.php?t=5846 ?
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Re: Error during computing radiation factors for heat transfer

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Hello,

I downloaded your files, and changed the third line in case.sif from Mesh DB "." "." to Mesh DB "." "plates3".
I added the file ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO containing 'case.sif'.

elmergrid 8 2 plates3 -autoclean
elmersolver

It ran to completion with the results shown in the picture.

Rich.
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Re: Error during computing radiation factors for heat transfer

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ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO containing the name of the sif file is a requirement for calculating radiation factors, but not for other Elmer solver runs.
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Re: Error during computing radiation factors for heat transfer

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Dear Rich, dear kevinarden,

I followed the instruction from Rich and now the calculation works well.

Thanks a lot for your support.

BR
-Carsten
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Re: Error during computing radiation factors for heat transfer

Post by raback »

Hi,

ViewFactors has not used the command-line argument that has been available for ElmerSolver for many years. Just fixed it so it should work better in the future.

-Peter
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