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Rahul
Ansys Employee

If the mesh is fine, it is definitely going to take more time to solve with 4 cores. 

To judge convergence, you can monitor force/heat flux, etc with report definitions in Fluent. Do not use too many Fluent iterations per coupling step, this will help you to improve the solution time.

 

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