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numerical instability at ~ 2 s when running levelset2.fds with latest fds release

Open gforney opened this issue 1 year ago • 9 comments

running FDS-6.9.1-843-g8d17db8-master (I believe the latest revision) on spark on the case smv/Verification/WUI/levelset2.fds gives a numerical instability at about 2 s

a 2nd problem that smokebot did not catch the numerical instability error. I only noticed because the image comparison portion of smokebot showed an image that was way different than the base (because the 3D smoke was not being generated). that is a smokebot problem - I'll fix

gforney avatar Sep 12 '24 00:09 gforney

I did a git bisect. This was the first bad commit.
Author: ericvmueller [email protected] Date: Tue Aug 20 09:26:53 2024 -0400

FDS Source: update defaults for custom level set fuel model

gforney avatar Sep 12 '24 01:09 gforney

Okay I'll take a look

ericvmueller avatar Sep 12 '24 01:09 ericvmueller

thanks. smokebot should now find these errors (now looking for ERROR'1 or more characters': not ERROR:

gforney avatar Sep 12 '24 02:09 gforney

I'm looking into this. Seems change in parameters is giving an instability in a cut-face.

marcosvanella avatar Sep 13 '24 16:09 marcosvanella

should I make a change to one ore more of the 'GRASS' parameters. I probably copied them from another case at some point. I am mainly interested in testing visualization not the actual burning behavior

&SURF ID = 'GRASS' DEFAULT = .TRUE. VEG_LSET_ROS_HEAD = 1.5 VEG_LSET_ROS_FLANK = 0.48 VEG_LSET_ROS_BACK = 0.15 VEG_LSET_WIND_EXP = 1 RGB=122,117,48 HRRPUA=200. BURN_DURATION=25. /

gforney avatar Sep 16 '24 14:09 gforney

Changing the packing ratio (VEG_LSET_BETA) to a lower value will allow it to run... but the current defaults aren't unphysical and it should run. This highlighted an issue with handing the wall stress in cut cells at mesh interfaces which should be more robust (@marcosvanella correct me if I'm wrong)

ericvmueller avatar Sep 16 '24 14:09 ericvmueller

Is this not in the regular firebot runs? If not, sounds like it should be.

rmcdermo avatar Sep 16 '24 15:09 rmcdermo

This case is in smokebot. I am testing levelset and agl slice visualization .i can put it in firebot if you like

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Is this not in the regular firebot runs? If not, sounds like it should be.

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gforney avatar Sep 16 '24 15:09 gforney

We'll work with you to get it in the FDS verification suite. If something is broken in FDS and this is the only case that demonstrates it, we need it in firebot.

rmcdermo avatar Sep 16 '24 15:09 rmcdermo