{"id":292262,"date":"2023-07-10T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/discrete-phase-model-settings-steady-state\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:19:46","slug":"discrete-phase-model-settings-steady-state","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/discrete-phase-model-settings-steady-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrete Phase Model Settings (Steady State)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi,<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I am looking at this:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"discrete particle model\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/10-07-2023-1688984147-dpm.png\" alt=\"discrete particle model\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>I wondered if you could tell me the equivalent timestep and number of timesteps (unsteady settings) for the tracking parameters, if I set max. number of steps = 50,000 and step length factor = 5 (steady settings)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Alternatively:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the meaning of the step length factor = 5? Is it the same as a maximum cell-based Courant number = 0.2?<\/li>\n<li>What is the meaning of max number of steps &#8211; is this like the number of timesteps where the timestep is the one limited by the maximum cell-based Courant number?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-292262","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-discrete-phase-model","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-steady-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hi, I am looking at this: I wondered if you could tell me the equivalent timestep and number of timesteps (unsteady settings) for the tracking parameters, if I set max. number of steps = 50,000 and step length factor = 5 (steady settings)?Alternatively:What is the meaning of the step length factor = 5? 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