Reply To: Not being able to replicate paper simulations

[m.t.vu]

I think the paper is using an inlet diameter of 4 mm (since that is used in the figure), doing this calculation, this gives an inlet velocity of about 1.7 m/s, which seems to correspond to the plot. So I am not entirely sure whether they made a mistake here besides from mentioning it wrongly in the paragraph.

 

When I have been trying to replicate the simulation (with the correct viscosity), I keep getting an error on Fluent saying "dasac failure at temperature ..", which could probably be the reason why the results do not seem to correspond. Do you have any idea how I can fix this? All the other settings are the same as I mentioned earlier. This might have caused this issue, but I cannot see what I have done differently from the paper.