{"id":398173,"date":"2024-12-21T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/floating-point-exception-on-ansys-fluent\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:37:53","slug":"floating-point-exception-on-ansys-fluent","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/floating-point-exception-on-ansys-fluent\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating point exception on Ansys Fluent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good morning everyone,&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For a few weeks I tried to make a sloshing analysis for a fuel tank and everytime I ran the simulation the &#8220;floating point exception&#8221; error occurred. It happened after a few iterations, not immediately.&nbsp;&lt;br&gt;I tried to make a better mesh but it still didn&#8217;t work so I tried to simplify the shape of the tank in order to understand if the problem was the imported CAD or whatever.&lt;br&gt;With the simplified shape the quality of the mesh seemed okay (I put a photo of the parameters and the shapes) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/21-12-2024-1734770869-photo_5992453034577347102_y.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the setup in Ansys fluent I put the right setting because when I tried the first sloshing analysis in a glass-shaped object, it did work fine. Putting the same settings on this shape didn&#8217;t work at all.&nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What should I do?&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-398173","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-floating-point-exception","topic-tag-fluent-sloshing-1","topic-tag-sloshing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Good morning everyone, For a few weeks I tried to make a sloshing analysis for a fuel tank and everytime I ran the simulation the &quot;floating point exception&quot; error occurred. It happened after a few iterations, not immediately. 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