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Workaround when the solver fails only with a specific number of partitions

Tagged: 18.2, cfx, fluid-dynamics, General - CFX, parallel, partitioning
    • June 5, 2023 at 7:05 am
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      Running in parallel on a certain number of cores can cause a solver error. This is related to how the partitioning is done on that geometry, and it often seems related to partitions crossing interfaces. A workaround is to try using a different partitioning method from MeTis (i.e. Optimized R. C. B.).

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