Ace V2003

CFD-ACE+ 2003 Release Notes
CFD-ACE+
(GUI V2003.0.139, SOLVER V2003.0.30) Release Notes December 01, 2003
1. General Notes
1.1
1.1.1
Platforms Supported
CFD-ACE+ Version 2003.x supports the following platforms: Windows XP/2000/NT on Intel or AMD (32-bit) Linux Red Hat 7.2+ on Intel or AMD (32-bit) HP-UX 11.0+ on PA-RISC (32-bit) HP-UX 11.0+ on PA-RISC (64-bit) HP-UX 11.22+ on Itanium2 (64-bit) SGI IRIX 6.5+ on MIPS (32-bit) SGI IRIX 6.5+ on MIPS (64-bit) - [not yet available] SUN Solaris 8+ (32-bit) SUN Solaris 8+ (64-bit) DEC OSF 4.0D+ on Alpha (64-bit) - [limited functionality, last release] SGI Platforms
It is recommended that all users on SGI platforms upgrade their OS level to at least 6.5.6. If you cannot upgrade the OS level to 6.5.6, at least upgrade the runtime environment to 6.5.6m or equivalent. 1.1.2 Linux Platforms
Users running Red Hat 8.0+ should ensure that they have a complete installation. It is especially important that RedHat 7.x compatibility libraries be installed.
1.2
Browsers
The online help system is known to work properly when viewed with Internet Explorer 6+ (MS-Windows) and Netscape 6+ (MS-Windows, Linux). Under Netscape 4.x and earlier, we have encountered frame display problems and occasional browser crashes. On UNIX platforms where Netscape 6+ is not available, the Mozilla browser may be a suitable alternative.
1.3
Name Change
To more consistently name our products, the names of the CFD-ACE+ GUI and Solver components have been changed. The graphical user interface is now called CFD-ACE-GUI, and the solver is now called CFD-ACE-SOLVER. You may need to adjust the target solver (under Edit -> Preferences -> Tools) to be CFD-ACE-SOLVER in order to ensure that you run the V2003 solver.
D:\Software Documentation\ACE 2003\ACE Release Notes 2003\ace.V2003.doc December 8, 2003
2. Major New Features

This section lists the major new features by version number, starting with the latest version.
2.1
CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.136, SOLVER V2003.0.28) October 27, 2003
This is primarily a maintenance release and no major new features have been implemented. Please see the Corrected Problems section below for a list of bug fixes made for this release.
2.2
CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.124, SOLVER V2003.0.23) September 17, 2003
2.3
CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.112, SOLVER V2003.0.15) July 29, 2003
2.4
2.5
CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.90, SOLVER V2003.0.8) May 29, 2003
The CFD-ACE+ Graphical User Interface has had many improvements, the most significant of which are discussed here. 2.5.1 New Database Manager
A much more user-friendly database manager has been incorporated CFDRC is providing many standard database entries Fully extendable by the user Allows sharing and re-use of common simulation data. Material Properties (solids and fluids) Chemistry Data (elements, species, mixtures, and buffers) Biochemistry Data (analytes, buffers, sites, and receptors) Chemical Reactions (general and biochemical reactions) Surface Reactions (general and biochemical reactions) Model Explorer Improvements
2.5.2
The model explorer has been extended to allow for easier navigation of your boundary and volume conditions Allows easier picking, grouping, and sorting of boundary and volume conditions Boundary and volume conditions can be automatically grouped by type

2.5.3 Interface boundary conditions no longer show as duplicates Online Help System
The CFD-ACE-GUI now takes advantage of an online help system. Context-sensitive help will take you directly to the help text for any given subject. Index and search functions are built in. This is the first release of online help and we have converted the former paper documentation to online help. We will continually improve the online help to make it easier to navigate and more content rich with every point release. Tabular Input Improvements
2.5.4
Pop-up tables are now used to input and display profile data. The CFD-ACE+ Solver has undergone many improvements and new functionality in almost all of the 18+ physics modules that it supports. Although each change is important to the specific user that requested that improvement, we list only the most significant items here. 2.5.5 Adaptive Time Step Control
A generalized adaptive time step selection capability has been added for transient problems that allow the solver to dynamically set and optimize the time step size. Solution run times can be dramatically reduced! Better Solution Restart Control
2.5.6
You can now control restart solutions on a module-by-module and/or volume-by-volume basis Use previous solution values for some modules or volumes and constant values for others Solver Output Improvements
2.5.7
Transient solution files can be written at constant time intervals that allow better animation of transient solutions that use adaptive time step control Save steady-state solutions with uniquely named (iteration stamped) files that allow you to animate how solution convergence is progressing Solution residuals available for output to graphics file for visualization in CFD-VIEW All variables available for output at a monitor point User Subroutine Improvements
2.5.8
Grid connectivity information is now available with new access routines Added access routines for porous media settings and properties Stress Module Improvements
2.5.9
The finite-element stress solver built into CFD-ACE+ has undergone significant changes with the addition of new matrix solvers Use much less memory (10-20x less) than the previous matrix solvers

Comparable in speed to the old matrix solvers. Some cases may be slower than with the previous solvers, but all cases should be within a factor of 1.5x. Allows much larger or more complex stress simulations to be run with CFD-ACE+
Several element types have been introduced/improved Hexahedral elements updated to account for shear-locking and now give much more accurate results for bending dominated problems New solid-shell element has been added which allows shell elements to be stacked Shell element conversion can now be made on volume-by-volume basis
2.5.10 Free Surface (VOF) Module Improvements Multi-to-One grid systems are supported with VOF 2-1 or 4-1 cell match for 3D grid systems and up to 50-1 in 2D Make finer cells where needed and coarser cells in other areas to save computation time Use structured grid systems built with block-coarsening feature of CFD-GEOM Use polyhedral grid systems built with CFD-VisCART
Support for arbitrary interface boundary conditions has been added Restriction that the free surface front cannot cross the arbitrary interface
Support for the Marangoni effect has been removed from the GUI This was available but reported not to work in the previous release. The option has been removed until numerical difficulties can be resolved.
2.5.11 Chemistry Module Improvements Full support for bio-chemical reactions has been added to the chemistry module Bio-chem reactions now take advantage of the robust and proven technology of the chemistry module Electroplating simulations take advantage of the full chemistry module. They can be implemented by combining the Electric and Chemistry modules
2.5.12 Plasma Module Improvements Electron Transport Properties and electron induced Reaction Rates calculated using Kinetic Module Enhancements for simulations of high pressure non-equilibrium plasmas (Look Up Tables) Expanded Databases and additional capabilities for Plasma Reactions Monte Carlo model for ion and neutral transport Under-relaxation practices for Plasma models have been changed in order to improve convergence. You should expect your convergence behavior for Plasma models to change. External circuit simulator (SPICE) coupled to reactor models (BETA capability, consult CFDRC support for details)

2.5.13 Kinetic Module Improvements Electron Boltzmann solver fully coupled with other modules for ICP, CCP and DC plasma simulations Global Kinetic Model for sensitivity analysis and validation of reaction mechanisms
2.5.14 Turbulence Module Improvements We have added the Menter Shear Stress Transport (SST) turbulence model Combines the best features of the k-epsilon and k-omega turbulence models
Added the ability to specify turbulence intensity for boundary conditions and initial conditions
2.5.15 Radiation Module Improvements An automatic boundary patch breakup capability as been added You no longer have to subdivide your boundary patches during grid generation
The ability to run Monte-Carlo radiation simulations in parallel execution mode has been added Monte-Carlo radiation simulations can now be run with deforming grids Improvements have been made to the Discrete Ordinate Method (DOM) radiation model solver Full field solver gives much faster convergence and shorter overall run times
2.5.16 Electric and Magnetic Module Improvements A coupled solver has been added for frequency domain problems Solves real and imaginary parts simultaneously Significantly enhances the convergence rate
Thin walls can now be used with the magnetic module
2.5.17 Deformation Module Improvements Deforming grid cases can now be run in parallel mode
3. Corrected Problems
Listed below are the corrected problems starting with the most recent release. If you have any questions about these corrected problems or need clarification on the chance that it affects your simulations, please contact support@cfdrc.com.
3.1
3.1.1
CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.139, SOLVER V2003.0.30) December 1, 2003

Problems Fixed in CFD-ACE-GUI
Number: 19423 Summary: GUI will not allow a negative number in Point load field Diagnosis: There is min-max check for these fields and their minimum values are set to zero. Now both min and max are removed, and the problem fixed. Users Affected: Stress Users

Version Fixed: 2003.0.130
Number: 19706 Summary: When loading CADA generated DTF with Radiation, ACE-GUI will crash. Diagnosis: CADA writes invalid data into DTF, and GUI crashed. More protections have been added. Users Affected: Radiation user who also use CADA Version Fixed: 2003.0.135
Number: 19745 Summary: Surface area does not change when units change Diagnosis: It's only in unstructured grid. The scale factor was ignored. Now fixed. Users Affected: All. But it's only a display issue. Version Fixed: 2003.0.138
Number: 19769 Summary: Default porous media properties not written into DTF file Diagnosis: If Porous Media VC setting not touched, its default properties will be missed. Users Affected: Porous media Version Fixed: 2003.0.138
Number: 19776 Summary: VOF Liquid property written into Solid VCs. Diagnosis: It's happened when the Solid VC is just switched from Fluid at which the VOF Liquid property was applied. Now it's fixed. Users Affected: VOF Users Version Fixed: 2003.0.138
Number: 19872 Summary: CFD-ACE-GUI crashes when importing MFG file with interface faces in it. Diagnosis: This is caused by a bug inside of DTFOL library. The function to read MFG files used incorrect interface face counter. Users Affected: Those using MFG importer Version Fixed: 2003.0.139
Number: 19873 Summary: CGNS import function issues an error message that is not meaningful for users.

Diagnosis: The file has two nodes at the same position. A more meaningful message has been added: "The converted DTF file [Filename] is invalid: at least two boundary nodes are at the same position. Check your original imported file." Users Affected: Those using the CGNS import function. Version Fixed: 2003.0.139 Problems Fixed in CFD-ACE-Solver Number: 18952 Summary: Spray module fails with steady+stick_wall+no_evaporation Analysis: if no evaporation, there should be no source term added to the mass and momentum equations, (an index array is not allocated). Protection has been added for this issue. Affected users: users using steady+stick_wall+no_evaporation. I think no user would be affected, because the solver would stop for such cases. Fixed Version: 2003.0.27
Number: 19523 Summary: Porous media linear resistance agrees with experimental data but quadratic does not. Diagnosis: Have received experimental references from the customer but cannot find the values that he references in his own notes (for dP/L). Examining the models sent, I note that you can plug the values used for porosity and drag factor into the equation for pressure drop/velocity relation in our documentation and you obtain very nearly the same pressure drop that CFD-ACE+ predicts. Therefore, the only conclusion that I can draw is that there is no bug. Users Affected: Those using porous media Version Fixed: No fix required. This information included for reference.
Number: 19575 Summary: Jsolid overshoots and undershoots near material interfaces. Diagnosis: Material interfaces were not treated properly which results in wrong values of solid potential at material interface. Users Affected: Any using porous media electrochemistry, fuel cell applications. Version Fixed: 2003.0.28
Number: 19597 Summary: error in species output summary Diagnosis: for biochem, species flux at fixed_value, fixe_flux, and combined boundaries were not reported in summary. it has been added to the summary. User Affected: Biochem users may see different species report in species summary Version Fixed: 2003.0.30
Number: 19623 Summary: Core dump with Filament model.

Diagnosis: The error was due to DTF file created using GUI dump script. The number of filament edge to nodes and the length corresponding array having the values were different. Solver now checks if there's a mismatch and prints the following error message and stops. "Error: The filament connectivity data has a mismatch between the number of edge to nodes and the corresponding array having the values." Users Affected: Filament Version Fixed: 2003.00.26
Number: 19681 Summary: BIO_<species name> are not valid in v2003 code. Diagnosis: In V2003 we have merged bio code into regular chemistry for more improvements. Old bio code has become obsolete. Now I have added backward compatibility for this name. Users Affected: Any Bio user who is using user subroutines written for v2002 and now using for v2003 will get affected. Version Fixed: 2003.00.29
Number: 19705 Summary: Different results for VOF when coupled with Stress Diagnosis: The problem was resulted from the pressure calculation at fluid-solid interface. A general method was applied to calculate the face pressure in VOF module, and the pressure at fluid-solid interface was not calculated properly (for pressure, there should be no contribution from the solid side). Bugs have been fixed. Users Affected: Users running VOF cases involving solid and fluid domains. Version Fixed: 2003.0.29
Number: 19739, 19799, 19800 Summary: Problem with 2nd order/2nd order limiter Scheme at cyclic boundaries Diagnosis: The transformations for vectors at cyclic boundaries were not implemented properly with second-order/second-order-limiter scheme. Bugs have been fixed. Users Affected: anyone who was running cases involving cyclic boundaries with second-order/secondorder-limiter scheme. Version Fixed: V2003.0.30
Number: 19757 Summary: Solver writes error message about Poisson's ratio being too big when it is not (0.49) Diagnosis: As stated. Bug has been corrected. Users affected: Any trying to set Poisson's ratio between 0.49 and 0.5. Version fixed: 2003.0.27
Number: 19768 Summary: solver complains about thermo diffusion even though it's not on

Diagnosis: The 'if' check for thermo diffusion and the heat module was not implemented properly. Users Affected: Chemistry and Multi-component Diffusion not solving Heat. Version Fixed: 2003.00.29
Number: 19772 Summary: VOF and biochemistry case show wrong values of surface concentrations. Diagnosis: There were two problems: 1. Initialization of surface concentrations for CFD-VIEW output at 0th time step or 0th iteration is wrong. 2. Surface Concentrations in are reset to zero at the back of the liquid-gas interface as interface moves. Both these problems are fixed. Users Affected: Any user who is running vof and biochemistry case. Version Fixed: 2003.00.29
Number: 19774 Summary: Solver stops at first iteration with Nan detected in residual for D. Diagnosis: Inlet and outlet values for D were specified as length scale of zero. Program will now stop with an error message indicating this is not valid input. Users Affected: Any setting initial value of D = 0.0 could have been affected. Some cases may have run successfully with this input and may now stop with this error message. Version Dixed: 2003.0.29
Number: 19775 Summary: VOF fails when it has SOLID body Analysis: Liquid properties were improperly applied to the solid body. Solver will now ignore such settings. Users Affected: Could have happened to anyone doing VOF with solid domains but incidence has probably been quite small. Will not affect any cases that were already working properly. Version Fixed: 2003.0.27
Number: 19785 Summary: User is unable to run symm or spring elements together with contact elements. Analysis: Bug has been fixed and user is able to run the problem with fix. Users Affected: Any user who has symmetry planes which are not parallel to coordinate axes or specified spring loads along with contact elements. Users who run only contact elements are not affected. Version Fixed: 2003.00.29
Number: 19834 Summary: Core dump in biochem module

Analysis: The user set the diffusivity to zero, it results in zero diagonal coefficient in the coefficient matrix. Protections have been added in the code. Users Affected: Bio module with diffusivity equal zero? Version Fixed: 2003.0.27
Number: 19845, 19857 Summary: Arbitrary interfaces, Stress, Grid Deformation, and SPC file specs do not work together correctly. Diagnosis: We are not doing arbitrary interface update when geometry is updated because of fem updating the grid. Users Affected: Any user who is using a combination of AI, Stress, Grid Deformation, and SPC file. Version Fixed: 2003.00.29
Number: 19858 Summary: Error getting temperature using "get_prev_time_value_one_cell" Diagnosis: Only solved variables can be obtained with get_prev_time_value_one_cell. Since we solve for enthalpy and not temperature, temperature is not available in the previous time step. Users Affected: As stated. Version Fixed: No fix. Documentation bug has been filed.
Number: 19895, 19896 Summary: Solver Crashes with parametric BC input in plasma (ccp) Analysis: the index of parametric BC is messed up when we do the ccp output summary. Bugs have been fixed. Users Affected: Those using ccp plasma with pamametric BCs. Version Fixed: 2003.0.28
Number: 19905 Summary: Bulk species in the gas phase reaction causes program crash. Diagnosis: Proper protection has been added in the code and a gui pr 19972 has been filed. The error message added is: "Error : Surface & Bulk species are not allowed in volume reactions. Surface/Bulk species present in reaction step : <step number> reaction name : <reaction name>" Users Affected: Chemistry with gas phase reaction. Version Fixed: 2003.00.29
Number: 19917 Summary: Stress solution for rotating cylinders is not correct. Diagnosis: The direction of the forces due to centripetal acceleration was wrong and fixed in the code. Users Affected: Any using rotation in Fem cases.
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Number: 19955 Summary: Arithmetic exception occurs for cvd case on Linux. Diagnosis: Density of bulk species was equal to zero that was causing the arithmetic exception. Proper protection and error message have been added. The error message added is "Density of bulk specie: <specie_name> is <= 0" Users Affected: Chemistry (Surface Reactions) Version Fixed: 2003.00.29
Number: 19975 Summary: If stress and grid deformation and rotation are solved together without flow module solver crashes. Diagnosis: Solver was trying to apply moving velocities due to grid deformation even though flow module is not turned on. Bug is fixed. Users Affected: Any user who is using grid deformation, stress and rotation without flow module. Version Fixed: 2003.00.29
Number: 19980 Summary: Solver crash when try to run Stress and Grid deformation problem. Diagnosis: This problem has arbitrary interfaces that cause the failure of solver. This is a known limitation that our fem problems do not support arbitrary interfaces especially for unstructured grid. Note: Arbitrary interfaces can be part of fluid domain, if solving FSI problems. Fixed the crash with proper protection and now code gives error message about limitation of AI in stress domains. Users Affected: Any user who is using unstructured grid, arbitrary interfaces and stress module. Version Fixed: 2003.00.30
Number: 20032 Summary: Autoremesh and ugrid does not work together in same problem. Diagnosis: Autoremesh resets user set values for x, y, and z coordinates to zero. This is fixed. Users Affected: Any user who is using autoremesh and user defined grid in same problem will be affected. Version Fixed: 2003.00.30
Number: 20065 Summary: Some nodes are in contact longer than required. Diagnosis: for better convergence we were holding nodes longer in old code (v2002). Now I have removed this coding and contact problems seem to work just fine with new code. Users Affected: Some users who are solving complex contact problems where they expect contact as point contact instead of plane contact.
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Number: 20075 Summary: Arbitrary interface processing is sensitive to the size of geometry used. Diagnosis: We are using smaller precision in creating new faces. This is fixed now by specifying "ARB_INT_GEOM_TOL double 1 1.0E-18" variable through DTF update command. Users Affected: This is very much problem/grid dependent. In general any user who is using Arbitrary Interfaces. Version Fixed: 2003.00.30
Number: 20112 Summary: solver gives wrong error message for missing LIQPROP.DAT file even though file is present in the specified directory. Diagnosis: We improperly removed the spaces in the path name string, which is causing this failure. I have fixed it. Users Affected: Any user who is having spaces in directory path. Usually this happens only on windows machines. Version Fixed: 2003.00.30
Number: 20129 Summary: Solver gives arithmetic exception for 0 initial conditions of K and D Diagnosis: User has zero initial conditions for both K and D that makes code to crash. I have fixed it by using tiny instead of zero if user has set 0 initial conditions. Users Affected: Any user who is set zero initial values for K and D of turbulence quantities. Version Fixed: 2003.00.30
3.2
CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.136, SOLVER V2003.0.28) October 27, 2003
This release focused mainly on bug fixes and the major ones can be found below. They are split into two sections (CFD-ACE-GUI and CFD-ACE-SOLVER). 3.2.1 Problems Fixed in CFD-ACE-GUI
Number: 18092 Summary: DTF File is VERY slow to open Diagnosis: This file contains 5544 Boundaries, 856 Volumes, 856 Zones. Improvements have been made to significantly reduce the load time. Users Affected: User who works on large model files Version Fixed: 2003.0.132
Number: 19130 Summary: Try to import CGNS file version >2.0 will crash CFD-ACE-GUI
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Diagnosis: CFD-ACE-GUI links to CGNS library 2.0, which cannot read version larger than that. When try to read it, CGNS library return error and return a valid handle number, try to close handle number will crash the program Users Affected: Any user uses CGNS importer Version Fixed: DTFOL_ACE+ library version 2003.0.13 and 2003.1.16
Number: 19376 Summary: Incorrect Restart Filename when Save As a new file Diagnosis: If you do a Save As on a model with constant Initial Conditions the saved model retains the (unused) restart file name as orignal_model.DTF. So when running the new model, if you switch Initial Conditions to Previous Solution you will see the name as original_model.DTF. This has changed and the restart file name will now be new_model.DTF. Version Fixed: 2003.0.128
Number: 19358 Summary: GUI crashes when trying to open a DTF file with 2D Unstructured or Poly grid in it. Diagnosis: Misfunction inside of Drawing Fringe 2D unstructured Cell Groups. This has been corrected. User Affected: Those using 2D unstructured/Poly grid. [Turn off "Draw Fringe 2D unstructured Cell Groups" on the preference can bypass this problem.] Version Fixed: 2003.0.127
Number: 19430 Summary: Used Species/Analytes are not listed under VC Diagnosis: Used Species/Analytes were not updated in Species/Analyte List, if the user used an existing Reaction in CFDRC or Local without checking it. Users Affected: Reaction users. Version Fixed: 2003.0.131
Number: 19465, 19320 Summary: Point loads for stress module not saved. Diagnosis: The default data for untouched BC broken Users Affected: All Version Fixed: 2003.0.130
Number: 19666 Summary: Surface tension force damping is shown on SC/Adv page even if Surface Tension in MO/VOF is not on. Diagnosis: As stated. Now hidden. User Affected: VOF Users Version Fixed: 2003.0.134
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Number: 19706 Summary: When loading CADalyzer generated DTF with Radiation, ACE-GUI will crash. Diagnosis: CADA writes invalid data into DTF. Users Affected: Radiation user who also use CADA Version Fixed: 2003.0.135 3.2.2 Problems Fixed in CFD-ACE-SOLVER
Number: 11970, 18455 Summary: Solver is not giving warning/error message for wrong setup of contact-target pair name settings. Analysis: Solver ignores if contact - target pair names do not match and continues as if contact model is not used. Error message and program stop has been implemented. Users Affected: Any user who is using fem and contact model in which contact - target pair names do not match. Version Fixed: 2003.00.21
Number: 18373 Summary: Reaction rate output to CFD-VIEW is limited to 99. Diagnosis: Solver was writing maximum of 99 rates. It has been modified to write and if user has more than 999 then warning message will be printed. Users Affected: Users asking Reaction rate output to CFD-VIEW with more than 99 reactions Version Fixed: V2003-0-24
Number: 18636 Summary: Inconsistent results between grid motion and stress calculated displacements. Diagnosis: This is due to use of a grid motion relaxation factor. After solver stress, we get displacements and we do not relax these, as it will affect the fem solution. We use these values to calculate grid motion and relax them with user-specified factor. This makes grid movement inconsistent with fem displacements as shown in CFD-VIEW. The inconsistency will remain until convergence is obtained. Users Affected: Any FSI users looking at intermediate results before convergence reached. Version Fixed: No fix required. This information included for reference.
Number: 18676, 19227, 19243, 19244 Summary: Streamfunction output is incorrect Diagnosis: Stream function discontinuities were found at interfaces of a multi-block grid and at the solidfluid interface of a moving grid problem. These have been corrected. Users Affected: As noted above. Incorrect stream function results would be clearly visible if plotted. Version fixed: 2003.0.24
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Number: 18773 Summary: Strain values are not consistent with stress values. Analysis: Shear stress output was twice the correct value. Now fixed. Users Affected: Any user who is asking for graphical output of principal strains will be affected. Version Fixed: in 09/11 for v2004 or v2003.00.23
Number: 18774 Summary: Two-fluid case shows apparently good convergence but poor mass balance. Analysis: An extra source term was added in alpha equation with swirl flow. This problem has been fixed. Users Affected: Those using two-fluid module and solving swirl. Version Fixed: 2003.0.24
Number: 18911 Summary: Parallel case Diagnosis: Error in dtf.decompose was found and corrected Users Affected: Parallel case reported was the only one known to have been affected. Version Fixed: dtf.decompose version2.2.8 2003.0.24
Number: 18936, 18990 Summary: Monitor point specification through input file caused crash on Windows. Diagnosis: As described Users Affected: Anyone using old monitor point format on Windows. Version Fixed : 2003.00.22
Number: 18969 Summary: Spray case crashes at second time step. Diagnosis: This problem is related to writing model.TRH file. It happened only if problem converged before spray start iteration at the first time step. Now, we don't converge problem if spray has not started. Users Affected: Transient spray and problem converges before spray has started. Version Fixed: 2003.0.21
Number: 19013 Summary: mpich option does not work on HP-UX (PA-RISC and IA64) Diagnosis: This is a documented behavior. Error message has been added "MPICH implementation of MPI is not available for HP-UX. Please use Native MPI for this platform.' Users Affected: Those running parallel on HP. Version Fixed 2003.0.24
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Number: 19033 Summary: MAX_ITER command does not work in MOD file with VOF Diagnosis: MAX_ITER was reset to original value in VOF Users Affected: Those running VOF and trying to set MAX_ITER in MOD file Version Fixed: 2003.0.21
Number: 19060 Summary: Solver failed with no warning message Diagnosis: Case involved VOF and arbitrary interface. The VOF interface needed to cross the arbitrary interface, which is not allowed. An error message has been added. User Affect4ed: As stated Version Fixed: 2003.028
Number: 19063 Summary: Gas appears in VOF calculation where it cannot physically occur. Diagnosis: In a VOF problem with a deforming grid displacing the liquid phase, gas appears at the solidliquid interface. Problem was traced to improper initialization of the VOF flux. This error has been corrected. Users Affected: Using features of VOF+grid deformation, with initial non-zero wall velocity Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
Number: 19084 Summary: Solver writes error message at completion of parallel run. Diagnosis: This was due to MPI implementation on HP-UX Itanium 2. The error message was benign run results were complete and correct. The error message will no longer appear. Users Affected: Users using native MPI for parallel on HP-UX Itanium 2. Version Fixed: V2003.0.26
Number: 19085, 19064 Summary: Can't turn off time frequency output in VOF case. Diagnosis: This problem is related to VOF and auto time stepping. Once you turn on constant time interval output and then switch it back to constant time step output it will in fact give no output until the end. Users Affected: As stated. Version Fixed: 2003.0.22
Number: 19098 Summary: No species diffusion at inlets with zero velocity.
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Diagnosis: Diffusion was cut at inlets and outlets when there is no flow or flow out. This has been changed and diffusion will only be ignored when there is flow out of the domain. Users Affected: Using species-by-species chemistry solution with zero velocity at inlets. Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
Number: 19107 Summary: Solver error stops for negative pressure for spray cases Diagnosis: There is no need to check for negative pressure for incompressible flow. That check and program stop has been eliminated. Users Affected: As stated. Version Fixed: 2003.0.22
Number: 19108 Summary: Different results between V2003 and V2002 for Monte Carlo radiation. Diagnosis: V2002 results were incorrect for axisymmetric cases in which some rays could escape the domain undetected. Users Affected: Those running Monte Carlo radiation in axisymmetric geometries with V2002 and V2003. Version Fixed: No fix required. This note is provided for user reference.
Number: 19119 Summary: Spray merge utility not working on HP-UX IA64. Diagnosis: As described. Users affected: Parallel spray models on HP-UX IA64. Version fixed: spray_merge 2.0.2
Number: 19126 Summary: Large heat imbalance in heat transfer summary. Diagnosis: The mechanical energy (work done by pressure of surroundings of the system) is not included in the heat transfer summary. Ordinarily it is quite small and the omission does not create a noticeable imbalance. This term ha been added in the summary. Users Affected: Those doing simulation of incompressible flow and heat transfer will see a small change in heat balance in the Summary report. This change will not affect the calculation process, just the heat summary. Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
Number: 19133 Summary: User reported poor results using the box geometric initialization with VOF. Diagnosis: In this case, the box boundaries fell exactly on cell centers that caused the error. Workaround was to increase or decrease the box dimensions by a small amount to get the boundaries off the cell
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centers. Program modifications have been made to try to prevent this condition in the future but there is no general method to handle all situations. Users Affected: Any using box initialization for VOF. Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
Number: 19169 Summary: Cannot restart cavitation case from a constant density case. Diagnosis: Solver error stop while reading Cell_VAP. Program has been modified to initialize Cell_VAP with zero. Users Affected: As described. Version Fixed: 2003.0.22
Number: 19205 Summary: In transient FSI problem moving structure had no effect on fluid. Diagnosis: This was due to coupling frequency being set to a large number which meant that the forces due to structural deformation should have been transmitted to the fluid at the next time step. However, an error caused to grid motion to effectively get "lost". Temporary solution is to set the coupling frequency to something that will certainly be less than the terminal iteration. This will work properly. This problem is fixed now. The effect of structural motion will be felt and be fluid in next time step for one way coupling. Users Affected: Any user who is running the One-way coupling (setting coupling frequency >= max_iterations) Version Fixed: 2003.00.25
Number: 19215 Summary: Solver hangs for LES turbulence models. Diagnosis: This is related to optimization on Linux. De-optimization of one routine has corrected the problem. User Affected: Users using LES turbulence models on Linux. Version Fixed: V2003.0.24
Number: 19266 Summary: Non-linear material cases still does not converge well. Analysis: Plastic history variable was being updated twice for the same iteration. This caused the some minor inconsistencies in converging non-linear cases. This has been corrected. Users Affected: Any user who is running dynamic case of non linear material will be affected and may see change in convergence behavior. Version Fixed: 2003.0.24
Number: 19284 Summary: Incorrect shear force in summary report.
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Analysis: The summary calculation was using the total velocity difference for the shear stress calculation rather than the tangential velocity difference. This has been corrected. Users Affected: Shear stress report in output file may change. This is just an output report. The solution obtained was correct. Version Fixed: 2003.0.24
Number: 19291 Summary: Code crashes while trying to output the 'ELECTRIC_FIELD_NORMAL' on walls through a user subroutine. Diagnosis: ELECTRIC_FIELD_NORMAL is not available for BEM solver, only for the FVM solver. A warning message has been added when this variable is requested and not available. Users Affected: Users using BEM solver and user subroutines. Version Fixed: 2003.0.24
Number: 19326 Summary: Fuel cell case may show big imbalance for species summary. Diagnosis: None provided. Users Affected: Users using porous media electro chemistry Version Fixed: 2003.0.25
Number: 19335 Summary: Force and moment output summary shows wrong units for 2D Diagnosis: These quantities should be per unit length or per angular measure. Users Affected: Only units on 2D model force and moment summary report. Version Fixed: 2003.0.24
Number: 19345 Summary: For parallel run solver stops if INITIAL MIXTURE not provided for SOLID volumes. Diagnosis: As stated. Error has been corrected. Users affected: Parallel runs with solid volumes and chemistry or mixing could have been affected. Version fixed: 2003.0.24
Number: 19397 Summary: Temperatures look incorrect at symmetry BC for Enthalpy Method Analysis: The temperature calculation on symmetry boundary in solid domain was not implemented properly. This has been corrected. Users Affected: Any using two-fluid module with enthalpy method, with symmetry boundaries in a solid domain. Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
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Number: 19398 Summary: Unable to restart FSI problem. Diagnosis: Restart file had negative volumes. An improved error message has been implemented. Users Affected: Any user who is using corrupted DTF file or DTF file with negative volumes will have such problems. Version Fixed: 2003.0.25
Number: 19420 Summary: Solver crashes if thermal diffusion has been selected without activating heat solution. Diagnosis: Proper checks have been introduced to make sure both have them have been activated or else an error message is printed. A GUI PR 19441 has been filed to hide the option for Thermal Diffusion, if heat ha has not been turned on. User Affected: Users using Species Chemistry and Heat. Version Fixed: 2003.0.25
Number: 19421 Summary: Reaction force output for solid shell elements is wrong. Analysis: This is just an output error that is now corrected. There is no error in the solution obtained. Users Affected: Any user who is using solid shell elements and requests reaction force output will be notice a change in the reaction forces. Version Fixed: 2003.0.25
Number: 19442 Summary: Magnetic module does not work with arbitrary interfaces if permanent magnet source present Diagnosis: As described. The error has been fixed. Users Affected: Users using permanent magnet source and arbitrary interfaces. Version Fixed: 2003.0.25
Number: 19452 Summary: Incorrect VOF results if model includes solid with density less than that of the primary fluid. Analysis: As described. This has been fixed. Users Affected: Users using VOF module with compressible flow and including solid domain with the density of the solid less that that of the primary fluid. This is probably a relatively rare occurrence as solids generally have densities greater than either fluid phase. Version Fixed: 2003.0.16
Number: 19471 Summary: Cannot view deposition rate in CFD-VIEW for parallel case.
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Diagnosis: This is related to parallel implementation. Solver does not write dep rate if surface reaction is not on. If DTF file is decomposed in a way that a zone has no reaction walls then solution data for that zone will not include dep rate. Now, it will be written for all zones. Users Affected: Users using surface chemistry in parallel. Version Fixed: V2003.0.25
Number: 19496 Summary: Scalar solution incorrect with arbitrary interface and backflow from the exit. Diagnosis: As stated. Now corrected. Users Affected: As stated. Version Fixed: 2003.0.25
Number: 19514 Summary: Solver error stops with "Error in getPoissonsRatio : One of the calculated Poissons Ratio values is larger than Max allowed." Diagnosis: Max allowed Poisson ratio was set to 0.49. It will be changed to .49999 as it should be less than .5. Users Affected: Users using Poisson ratio >= .49 Version Fixed: 2003.0.25
Number: 19546 Summary: Kinetic case crashes. Diagnosis: Variables were not initialized and proper protection has been added to that index does not go out of bounds. Users Affected: Those using kinetic module. Version Fixed: 2003.0.25
Number: 19551, 19450, 18665 Summary: Incorrect mass flows predicted with VOF when variable time step option is used. Diagnosis: For a test case involving a volume decreasing at a constant rate the liquid mass flow out of the volume fluctuates about the expected constant value. This was due to an error in the VOF auto time step option. The error has been corrected. Users Affected: Those using VOF and auto time step with deforming mesh. Version Fixed: V2003.0.27
Number: 19592 Summary: Control characters being printed in the source name columns in the output file. Diagnosis: Source name for species sources was not being set and hence control characters were being written in the model.out while printing the source names Users Affected: User subroutine (species source) and chemistry (species fraction approach)
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Number: 19593 Summary: Warning message for electric conductivity not being specified for piecewise linear input for electrical conductivity. Diagnosis: The solver was recognizing the Piecewise Linear option and calculating the conductivity, but the flag for econd_prop_found wasnt made true. The warning message was being displayed in the model.out file. Users Affected: ElectroMagnetic cases using the piecewise linear option for electrical conductivity. Version Fixed 2003.00.26
Number: 19604 Summary: Solver dies without warning. Using Filament model. Diagnosis: CFD-GEOM does not properly do a grid update if filament is present. If it is used, CFD-GEOM creates inconsistent filament and causes solver to crash. Proper error message has been added to error stop the solver. Version Fixed: 2003.0.27.
Number: 19605 Summary: VOF problem with solid might crash. Diagnosis: Solver tried to access data for solid that was not calculated. It has been fixed. Users Affected: Users running VOF modules and with solids. Version Fixed: V2003.0.26.
Number: 19690 Summary: Mass flow inlet incorrect in porous media Diagnosis: When the fixed mass inlet boundary is placed on a porous media volume the mass porosity was not accounted for and the resultant mass flow was incorrect. This has been corrected. Users Affected: Any using fixed-mass flow rate boundaries with porous media Version Fixed: 2003.0.27
Number: 19747 Summary: Conjugate arbitrary interface with soret diffusion does not give correct results. Analysis: As stated. Error was corrected. Users Affected: Any user who is using soret diffusion with conjugate arbitrary interfaces will be affected. Version Fixed: 2003.00.28
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CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.124, SOLVER V2003.0.23) September 17, 2003
Number: 18008 Summary: User Scalar definition (on the MO page) not journaled correctly Diagnosis: As described. Now fixed. Users Affected: Script users accessing User Scalar module Version Fixed: 2003.0.115
Number: 18371 Summary: Wrong molecular weight for SI2 in CFDRC database Diagnosis: Data was wrong Users Affected: Chemistry users who use SI2 Version Fixed: About 2003.0.113 (Database modifications are made independently of GUI builds)
Number: 18448 Summary: Note describing piezoelectric coupling matrix (VC:Properties:Piezo) was incorrect. Diagnosis: The note was corrected. Users Affected: Stress and piezoelectric users Version Fixed: 2003.0.113
Number: 18456 Summary: Error in concentration exponents for several steps of Plasma:Nitrogen Reaction mechanism. Diagnosis: At V2003 release the following 6 Plasma Reactions were improperly updated: Argon, C2F6_O2_65s, CF4, Chlorine, Nitrogen, and Oxygen. The V2002 mechanisms were corrected and restored. Users Affected: Those using the affected Plasma Reaction mechanisms Version Fixed: V2003.0.113
Number: 18458 Summary: Incorrect concentration exponent for Argon[1]_high_pressure reaction step Diagnosis: Reaction step AR++2AR->AR2++AR had concentration exponents given as 1 and 1 but should have been 1 and 2. This error was present in V2002 as well but has now been corrected. Users Affected: Those using the Plasma Reaction mechanism Version Fixed: V2003.0.113
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Number: 18480 Summary: Ctrl-A picks all the items including blanked items. Diagnosis: This behavior was in accordance with the original design. However, after internal discussion, the behavior has been changed so that only visible entities will be picked. This will appear correct when attention is focused on the graphics window. However, it may now appear odd if attention is focused on the explorer list. Users Affected: All Version Fixed: 2003.0.118
Number: 18507 Summary: GUI dies when the DTF content button is clicked. Diagnosis: User had two different instances of GUI viewing the same file and this triggered and error in the DTFViewer library. It has now been corrected. Users Affected: Likely very few. Would have required circumstances described above. Version Fixed: 2003.0.124.
Number: 18618 Summary: File Save did not sense molecular weight change in database Diagnosis: Modified flag was not set correctly. This could potentially happen for the last viewed material if it was modified. Users Affected: Potentially all database users Version Fixed: 2003.0.117
Number: 18849 Summary: Boundary mixtures set to none when changing between mixture mass fraction and species mass fractions Diagnosis: This is the originally implemented behavior of the code. Because it is inconvenient for user it has now been changed so that boundary mixtures will be retained if the chemistry solution option is toggled. Users Affected: Chemistry Users. Note that not all problem types actually support both Mixture Fraction and Species Fraction options. Version Fixed: 2003.0.120
Number: 18946 Summary: GUI failed to write solid density and Young's modulus to DTF file in some rare situations. Diagnosis: As described in summary. Now fixed. Users Affected: Those using the Stress option (but rarely) Version Fixed: 2003.0.122
Number: 18968
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Summary: Cannot keep multi-level folder in the reaction manager Diagnosis: As described. Now corrected. Users Affected: Reaction database users trying to create a new sub-folder Version Fixed: 2003.0.121
Number: 18955 Summary: Conservation of species + Stefan Maxwell" (for Gas Mixing Rule) is not stored in GUI from Database Diagnosis: As described. Now fixed. User Affected: Those setting gas-mixing rule in database Version Fixed: 2003.0.120
Number: 19130 Summary: Crash on import of CGNS file version greater than 2.0 Diagnosis: CGNS library used was for version 2.0. CGNS function returned error code that was not properly handled. New library was installed and linked (Version 2.2) and error handling was corrected. Users Affected: Any importing CGNS file with version number greater than 2.0 Version Fixed: DTFOL_ACE+ library version 2003.0.13 and 2003.1.16 (September 8, 2003)
Number: 19132 Summary: Porous Media VC tab displays properties info Diagnosis: This could happen after saving. Users Affected: All using porous media Version Fixed: 2003.0.121
Number: 19134 Summary: Material folder name change will cause all data loss. Diagnosis: Folder name change was not properly handled. Now corrected. Users Affected: All database users changing folder names Version Fixed: 2003.0.122 3.3.2 Problems Fixed in CFD-ACE-Solver
Number: 16953 Summary: Parallel fuel cell problem shows unphysical values near processor boundary. Diagnosis: This is related to reading of incorrect boundary condition sub type from DTF file. It has been fixed. Users Affected: Users running fuel cell cases in parallel Version Fixed: V2003.0.19
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Number: 17809 Summary: Momentum resistance causes crash if polyhedral geometry is not defined in CFD-ACE-GUI Diagnosis: This is related to momentum resistance model for polyhedral geometry. Solver crashes if user did not enter x,y,z values for polyhedral geometry. Proper error message has been added. Users Affected: User using momentum resistance model for polyhedral geometry Version Fixed: V2003.0.16
Number: 17936 Summary: Mach number output is wrong at rotating wall. Diagnosis: Rotating wall velocity was not taken into account for Mach number calculation. This was just output error. It will not change results. Users Affected: Those using Mach number output and have rotating wall Version Fixed: V2003.0.16
Number: 18162 Summary: Problem with turbulence convergence in Porous media Diagnosis: Solver has been modified to improve the convergence Users Affected: Those using turbulence and porous media together Version Fixed: 2003.0.16
Number: 18187 Summary: Parallel case does not run on windows if full path is more than 80 charaters. Diagnosis: Now we read full path (up to 1024 characters) and break it in directory path and dtf_file_name Users Affected: Those running parallel on windows Version Fixed: V2003.0.18
Number: 18238, 18361 Summary: Spring BC does not work in Stress Diagnosis: There was a bug in reading the spring bc data from DTF file. Users Affected: Those using spring bc loads Version Fixed: v2003.0.16
Number: 18240 Summary: Hemolysis case crashes Analysis: The maximum number of particle position was hardwired. Now, we use users defined maximum number of particle position to calculate hemolysis rate. Users Affected: Users using hemolysis module
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Version Fixed: v2003.0.17
Number: 18242 Summary: Analyte units should show as Molar (M) instead of mole Diagnosis: Units for species concentration in liquid chemistry/biochemistry cases now displays as molar instead of mole. Users Affected: Those using liquid biochemistry/biochemistry Version Fixed: v2003.0.18
Number: 18382 Summary: Problem with expression calculation Diagnosis: Solver has been modified to be able to handle negative bases for powers close to an integer. Users Affected: Those using expression for negative bases for powers close to an integer Version Fixed: 2003.0.17
Number: 18386 Summary: Heat flux summary output is wrong at thin-wall Diagnosis: Heat transfer summary was calculated based on two adjacent cells instead of cell center and face center temperature. Users Affected: Those using thin-wall and heat flux summary output. Version Fixed: V2003.0.16
Number: 18407 Summary: Solver stops for arbitrary interface and grid deformation problem with eplate module is on. Diagnosis: Logical variable is initialized before the allocation routine is called. So the arrays were never allocated. It has been fixed. Users Affected: Those running transient problem with arbitrary interface and electroplating Version Fixed: v2003.0.17
Number: 18408 Summary: 3D tetrahedron deformation case takes much more memory Diagnosis: Tetrahedron was treated as prism inside deformation module, causing it to take much more memory Users Affected: Those using prism deformation Version Fixed: V2003.0.16
Number: 18452 Summary: Constant time output does not work if case is restarted and continuation is on
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Diagnosis: Time was not set properly and under the above condition, output file was written at every time step Users Affected: Those using Constant time output with restart and continuation Version Fixed: V2003.0.16
Number: 18459 Summary: AMG solver takes very large time for some iterations Diagnosis: Flex AMG cycle is used for some variables and it was taking millions of cycles to converge. We have limited it 100,000 cycles. Users Affected: Those using AMG cycles Version Fixed: V2003.0.18
Number: 18475 Summary: Solver writes special characters in model.out file Diagnosis: If none of the variables is selected as an output for monitor point, solver writes un-initialized variable Users Affected: Those using monitoring point Version Fixed: 2003.0.16
Number: 18518 Summary: Output at specified frequency does not work for stress cases. Analysis: This feature was not implemented in code. The reason is internally we convert steady state solution into one big large time step transient case. It has been implemented. Users Affected: Those running Stress, Grid deformation in steady state mode Version Fixed: v2003.0.21
Number: 18584 Summary: Solver crashes for two-fluid if swirl is on Diagnosis: Initial conditions were not done properly for two-fluid if swirl is on Users Affected: Those using two-fluid and swirl together Version Fixed: V2003.0.18
Number: 18594, 18712 Summary: vonmises stress value is missing in monitor point output. Diagnosis: GUI is writing a different value for variable form what solver is expecting. Solver has been corrected. Users Affected: Those who ask to output vonmises stress for monitor point output Version Fixed: v2003.0.18
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Number: 18604 Summary: Fuel cell cases do not restart smoothly if membrane model is used for electrical conductivity. Liquid water transport does not work in parallel. Diagnosis: We need to store electrical conductivity to restart smoothly. Additional data needs to be transferred for liquid water transport in parallel. Users Affected: Those using a membrane model for electrical conductivity and restart. Users running liquid water transport in parallel. Version Fixed: V2003.0.18
Number: 18610 Summary: model_FEM.RSL file is not removed before starts writing for a fresh run Diagnosis: We are not deleting the model_FEM.RSL file before writing. We are relying on FORTRAN compiler to do that. It works fine on windows but does not on Linux. Now, solver deletes if it exists and then open again for writing. Users Affected: Those running non-linear problem on Linux machine Version Fixed: v2003.0.18
Number: 18648 Summary: Solver crashes when using stress with piezo and contact analysis Diagnosis: Memory was deal located for fixed voltage bc unintentionally. It has been protected now. Users Affected: Those using stress with Piezo, fixed voltage bc, second order, and contact analysis Version Fixed: v2003.0.18
Number: 18650 Summary: Unable to run single layer standard quad elements Analysis: shape functions were calculated assuming clockwise order of node numbering. It has been fixed now. Users Affected: Those using quad elements may find this problem. This problem is more visible in stress calculations not much in displacement. Version Fixed: v2003.0.21
Number: 18664 Diagnosis: Temperature calculation in solid domain should not use enthalpy-method of two-fluid. It has been protected properly. Users Affected: Those using two-fluid module with enthalpy method, multi-domain, including solid regions Version Fixed: v2003.0.20
Number: 18667 Summary: Stop the code if shell direction is not specified.
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Diagnosis: Solver was assuming the z-direction as shell surface. Now, solver will error stop if shell direction is not specified. Users Affected: Those using shell elements and not specified shell surface (thickness) direction. Version Fixed: v2003.0.18
Number: 18678 Summary: Unable to reproduce the results using v2003 Analysis: There were many reasons why we could not do it. When this case was originally run, we had different contact modeling. During this process, we have improved the contact model (wiser in choosing spring factor for contact elements, increased the size of target face, spring factor is also a function of area weighted for each target face), fixed some bugs related to FSI restart, FSI grid motion relaxation. Users Affected: Those using contact model, or FSI problem with grid relaxation other than 1.0 Version Fixed: v2003.0.21
Number: 18684 Summary: Stress solution for modal analysis is not writing eigen values and frequencies in output file. Diagnosis: Output has been added to model.out file. Users Affected: Those using modal analysis Version Fixed: v2003.0.18
Number: 18688 Summary: No Flow condition gives very small residual if deformation is on Diagnosis: This is related to optimization and we get very small numbers instead of zero. We need to compile grid velocity calculation routine under lower optimization. Users Affected: Those using flow and deformation on Linux Version Fixed: V2003.0.18
Number: 18690 Summary: Unable to restart Non linear material stress cases Analysis: We are not storing required information for restart for non-linear material cases. It has been added to DTF file. Users Affected: Those restarting for FSI problem or non-linear material Version Fixed: v2003.0.21
Number: 18741 Summary: Unable to run non linear material model with triangle elements, same problem can be run if user has quad elements Analysis: This problem was running with v2002. When investigated we found Gaussian integration scheme was different. V2002 was using 1/3 scheme where as v2003 is using standard. Now, 1/3 scheme has been used in v2003 also. Textbooks say both are equally stable and robust.
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Users Affected: Those using triangle elements may see small difference (negligible or minor) in results. Version Fixed: v2003.0.21
Number: 18786 Summary: Yplus output shows very small values for interior cells Diagnosis: It has been reset to zero for output Users Affected: Those using yplus output Version Fixed: V2003.0.20
Number: 18801 Summary: Zero porosity might create NaN for unsteady case Diagnosis: This was because of divide by zero Users Affected: Those using porous media and unsteady case Version Fixed: V2003.0.20
Number: 18896 Summary: Problem with sphere geometry initialization in VOF Diagnosis: Back-projection was used to find if cell is inside the sphere. Now, Distance from node to the center of sphere has been used to find if cell is inside the sphere. Users Affected: Those initializing vof with sphere geometry Version Fixed: V2003.0.20
Number: 18978 Summary: VOF and gas phase chemistry problem might crash Diagnosis: Mass fraction of the cell was not calculated properly User Affected: Those using gas phase chemistry and vof together Version Fixed: V2003.0.21
Number: 18999 Summary: Negative Values of density and Viscosity does not give error Diagnosis: Solver will error stop if user enters negative values of density and viscosity Version Fixed: V2003.0.21
Number: 11970, 18455 Summary: Solver is not giving warning/error message for wrong setup of contact-target pair name settings. Diagnosis: Solver ignores if contact - target pair names do not match and continue as if contact model is not used. Now, solver error stops.
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Users Affected: Those using stress and contact model with contact - target pair names do not match Version Fixed: v2003.0.21
Number: 19033 Summary: MAX_ITER command does not work in MOD file Diagnosis: MAX_ITER was reset to original value in VOF Users Affected: Those using VOF and MAX_ITER in MOD file Version Fixed: V2003.0.21
Number: 18773 Summary: Principal strain values are corresponding to principal stress values Diagnosis: For calculation purposes most of stress codes use total (engineering) strain, which is twice for actual strains in shear planes. Normal strains are same. When we calculate principal strains, we need to take half of the total strain for shear components. We did not do that earlier. It has been fixed now. Users Affected: Those asking for graphical output of principal strains Version Fixed: v2003.0.23
Number: 18911 Summary: Parallel problems for fuel cell cases Diagnosis: Processor interface shows hot and cold spots. This problem was related to dtf_decompose Version Fixed: dtf_decompose V2.2.8
Number: 18936, 18990 Summary: Solver dies reading monitor point file Users Affected: This was related to Windows platform and will happen only if user is using old monitor point text input format Version Fixed: V2003.0.22
Number: 18969 Summary: Spray case crashes at second time step Diagnosis: This problem is related to writing model.TRH file. It happens only if problem converges before spray start iteration at the first time step. Now, we don't converge problem if spray has not started. Users Affected: Those using transient spray and problem converges before spray has stated Version Fixed: V2003.0.21
Number: 19063 Summary: Unrealistic value of VOF at solid-liquid interface Diagnosis: VOF flux initialization was not done properly for moving grid cases. It has been fixed.
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Users Affected: Those using VOF and grid deformation with initial non-zero wall moving velocity Version Fixed: V2003.0.21
Number: 19085, 19064 Summary: cannot switch back from time interval to time step Diagnosis: This problem is related to VOF and auto time stepping. Once you turn on constant time interval output and then switch it back to constant time step output it will in fact give no output until the end. Version Fixed: V2003.0.22
Number: 19098 Summary: Inlets don't diffuse for chemistry cases Diagnosis: Diffusion was also switched off at inlets and outlets when there is no flow. It has been fixed. Users Affected: Those using chemistry module with zero velocity at inlets and outlets Version Fixed: v2003.0.21
Number: 19107 Summary: Solver error stops for negative pressure for spray cases Diagnosis: There is no need to check for negative pressure for incompressible flow. It has been protected now. Users Affected: Those using spray under incompressible flow Version Fixed: V2003.0.22
Number: 19126 Summary: Large heat imbalance for Incompressible flow cases Diagnosis: The mechanical energy (work done by pressure of surroundings of the system) was not included in the summary. It has been added in the summary. Users Affected: Those using incompressible flow and heat transfer will see small change in heat balance. In almost all cases, this will be negligible. Version Fixed: V2003.0.20
Number: 19133 Summary: Problem in box geometric initialization in VOF Diagnosis: Position of cell center is used to determine if cell is full or empty but if box lies exactly at the cell center, initialization might not be correct. Box size has been enlarged with a very small value to fix this problem. Users Affected: Those using box as VOF geometric initialization Version Fixed: V2003.0.21
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Number: 18378 Summary: Journaling will generate invalid script for piecewise linear functions Diagnosis: This was incorrectly implemented at release of V2003. Now corrected. Users Affected: Those using journal files to script access to piecewise linear functions. Now corrected. Version Fixed: 2003.0.111
Number: 18415 Summary: Certain variables in Volume Reaction Mechanism were not written into DTF file, if the reaction type is Finite Rate (Species Fraction approach in Liquid Phase). Diagnosis: As described. Now corrected. Users Affected: Gas Phase Reaction users who use "Species Fraction Approach in Liquid Phase" reaction type Version Fixed: 2003.0.112
Number: 18185 Summary: Cannot launch parallel job from GUI in Windows when software is installed under path with a space in it (e.g., Program Files/). Diagnosis: As described. Now fixed. Users Affected: All Windows users using parallel run from GUI Version Fixed: 2003.0.106
Number: 18233 Summary: Journaled command for activating graphics output of velocity magnitude does not work Diagnosis: Error in implementation created same script command for activating Velocity output and Velocity Magnitude output. Now fixed. Users Affected: Python Script users setting Graphic/Velocity output Version Fixed: 2003.0.106
Number: 18262 Summary: GUI did not save reaction and surface reaction information in DTF file. Diagnosis: When changing from biochemistry to general chemistry, GUI would not write general chemistry reaction data into DTF file. Now fixed. Users Affected: Those changing biochemistry to general chemistry Version Fixed: and 2003.0.112
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Number 17242, 18069 Summary: Initial mixture is missing when restart run is requested. Diagnosis: When restarting, original Initial Conditions mixture was not included in the Active Mixtures and Species list. The GUI would then fail to write the species data for the species in that mixture and the solver would stop. The IC mixture is now remembered and species properties are correctly written. Users Affected: Chemistry users performing restart could have been affected. Version Fixed: 2003.0.105
Number: 17932 Summary: Expression input truncated at 80 characters Diagnosis: Truncation at 80 characters did occur and if a legal expression still resulted no warning was ever given. Truncation still occurs but an error message will now be written. Users Affected: Those using long expressions for input Version Fixed: 2003.0.105
Number: 18226 Summary: Crash for certain Initial condition settings when using scripting Diagnosis: Cannot set Voltage in the script when you see both Electric Potential and Solid Electric Potential. Duplicate IDNames were used. Add internal code to check Null pointer. Users Affected: Python script users setting Electr/Voltage initial conditon Version Fixed: 2003.0.106
Number: 17242, 18069 Summary: Mixture name (initial value for mixture) is missing for restart Diagnosis: When restarting, original selected mixture is not required by Solver but its properties are still required. GUI will now write the mixture information. Users Affected: Chemistry users performing restarts Version Fixed: 2003.0.105
Number: 18185 Summary: Cannot launch parallel job from GUI in Windows when the full path name of the cfd-ace-mpi command has a space in it. Diagnosis: When the executable path has space in it, the pipe is broken for the second argument. This has now been corrected. Users Affected: Windows users using parallel run from GUI Version Fixed: 2003.0.106 3.4.2 Problems fixed in CFD-ACE-SOLVER
Number: 18255
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Summary: VOF and stream function output causes crash on Linux Diagnosis: This is related to stream function output and caused by divide by zero. It has been protected properly. Users Affected: VOF and stream function output Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
Number: 18260 Diagnosis: There was bug in 2002 code related axisymmetric and piezoelectric problems. We were not using radius in formulation. Users Affected: Those using 2002 solver for Piezo and axisymmetric cases Version Fixed: 2002.0.15
Number: 18105 Summary: The Relative Permeability set Using User Subroutine is inverted Diagnosis: Setting of magnetic permeability via set_value_one_cell was actually setting 1/permeability. Users Affected: Those setting magnetic permeability via set_value_one_cell Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
Number: 17888 Summary: Arbitrary interface capability for electroplating cases. Diagnosis: After the arbitrary interface projection, interface faces were not defined as "Ignore" boundary condition sub type. It has been fixed now. Users Affected: Those using electroplating with arbitrary interfaces Version Fixed: v2003.0.15
Number: 17442 Summary: Coverage option in surface chemistry not available Diagnosis: The surface coverage option (COV keyword in CHEMKIN format) was not implemented in V2003. In V2002 it was available through the Surface Chemkin input and solver. It has been implemented in V2003 and can be activated through Surface CHEMKIN input and through native CFD-ACE+ input. Users Affected: Those using COV option in (CHEMKIN) surface chemistry Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17833 Summary: Wrong species flux output if inlet diffusion is off Diagnosis: Diffusive flux printed to output summary was not properly calculated if inlet diffusion was off. Users Affected: Those using chemistry and inlet diffusion off Version Fixed: 2003.0.14
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Number: 18010 Summary: Wall motion due to deforming grid plus assigned velocity not calculated correctly. Diagnosis: When a wall had both an assigned velocity (boundary value) and velocity due to grid deformation the solver overwrote the assigned velocity with the deforming velocity. Now the two velocities are properly summed. Users Affected: Those using moving wall and deforming BC type on the same wall Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
Number: 18137 Summary: License error when running ELECTRIC or MAGNETIC features Diagnosis: For new licenses with ELECTRIC or MAGNETIC feature included, the license check was not performed properly. User Affected: ELECTRIC and MAGNETIC new license users Version Fixed: 2003.0.14
Number: 18225 Summary: Restart of biochemistry with surface reactions does not restart smoothly. Diagnosis: Required boundary face data for smooth restart was not written. It has now been implemented. Users Affected: Those who are restarting a biochemistry case that involves surface reactions Versions Fixed: 2003.00.15
Number: 18256 Summary: Stream function output may causes crash on Linux if VOF module is on. Diagnosis: Divide by zero may occur at zeroth time step. It has been protected. Users Affected: Those using VOF module and asked for stream function output Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
Number: 18267 Summary: Unable to compile user subroutine if get_module_index user access routine is called Diagnosis: Argument type mismatch for user access routine get_module_index(). The documentation shows wrong type. Documentation will be modified. The arguments for get_module_index(module_name, module_index, solve_module, error) should have the types of character, integer, integer, and logical respectively. Users Affected: Those using the subroutine get_module_index() Version Fixed: No solver fixed needed.
Number: 18071, 16171 Summary: Wrong BC Type error for certain boundary faces for arbitrary interface case
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Diagnosis: This is a bug in DTF library. DTF API gives wrong bc record number when queried. Users Affected: This is tricky. We think all users who are using arbitrary interfaces have a potential bug (would be indicated by the error message Wrong BC Type in the output file.) If you see that error message then you should rerun the case with the latest solver. Version Fixed: 2003.00.15
Number: 18140 Summary: Arbitrary interface (skew term calculation) causes poor convergence and fails to conserve. Diagnosis: This problem was due to way in which skew terms at the arbitrary interfaces are calculated. An option has been added to change the way these terms are calculated. This option can be changed using DTF -ud and updating the following variable. Use these options carefully. DTF Name: ARB_INT_SKEW_TERM_OPTION = 0 Default option. Include old faces and kill for new faces. This is robust but less accurate. For backward compatibility. = 1 include new faces and kill for old faces. This is less robust but more accurate. Newly created faces may have very small face angles and faces may be very small. = 2 kill for both faces. This is more robust but probably less accurate. Version Fixed: 2003.00.15
Number: 18143 Summary: Non-default product exponents for surface reactions are not used. Diagnosis: Fixed in Solver to be inconsistent with CFD-ACE-GUI Users Affected: Those using surface reactions with non-unity exponents for product exponents will be affected. This will affect only general Arrhenieus reactions without backward rate by equilibrium. Version Fixed: 2003.00.15
Number: 18151, 18159 Summary: Mixture fraction chemistry with equilibrium products might crash. Diagnosis: If you use mixture fraction chemistry with equilibrium products and no hydrocarbon fuel, the solver would fail with a core dump. It has been protected. Users Affected: Those using mixture fraction chemistry with equilibrium products and no hydrocarbon fuel Version Fixed: 2003.0.14
Number: 18161 Summary: Conjugate Walls with arbitrary interface has non-zero electric current flux values. Diagnosis: Conjugate Walls for arbitrary interfaces should not have any other BC type except Ignore. Currently solver assigns the same BC type as what user specifies (Flux = 0) in this case. These should be ignored. Users Affected: Those using the electric module with arbitrary interface at a conjugate wall
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Number: 18203 Summary: Incorrect wall velocities in FSI problem Diagnosis: If Stress and Deformation are on and update frequency is set to a value greater than MAX_ITER then wall velocities due to deformation will be wrong. Under above conditions deforming velocity routine is called twice and velocity is reset to zero. Users Affected: As described above Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
Number: 18260 Summary: Different results between 2002 and 2003 stress solvers Diagnosis: There was a bug in 2002 code related to axisymmetric and piezoelectric problems. We were not using radius in the formulation. V2003 is producing the right results. Users Affected: Those using the 2002 solver for Piezo and axisymmetric cases Version Fixed: 2003.00.15
Number: 17888 Summary: Arbitrary interface gives incorrect results for electroplating cases. Diagnosis: After the arbitrary interface projection all the conjugate faces involved in projection retained their original type. Now, they will be converted to "Ignore" type. Users Affected: Those using the electric module with arbitrary interfaces Version Fixed: 2003.00.15
Number: 18261 Summary: Anisotropic conductivity option set to yield isotropic conductivity yields results different from isotropic conductivity. Diagnosis: Several inconsistencies were found and corrected for anisotropic conductivity option. Users Affected: Those using anisotropic conductivity Version Fixed: 2003.0.15
3.5
This release focused mainly on bug fixes and the major ones can be found below. They are split into two sections (CFD-ACE-GUI and CFD-ACE-SOLVER). 3.5.1 Problems fixed in CFD-ACE-GUI
Number: 17353 Summary: Biochemical reaction step types not being written to DTF Users Affected: V2003 users running biochemistry with reaction
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Number: 17598 Summary: In an existing model with ionization the mobility and diffusivity were not restored properly. Users Affected: As described above Version Fixed: 2003.0.91
Number: 17601 Summary: Spray with biochemistry was not backward compatible (V2002) because of inability to set surface reaction on spray particles. Users Affected: Those modeling surface reaction on spray particles with V2002 Version Fixed: 2003.0.92
Number: 17613 Summary: Large memory consumption was encountered with a GUI script. Diagnosis: Was traced to leaving DTF files/simulations open. To remedy this, two new script functions, GuiFILE.CloseCurrentSim() and GuiFILE.CloseAllSim() were added. Users Affected: Those opening multiple DTF files and/or simulations in a single session Version Fixed: 2003.0.92
Number: 17639 Summary: If a mechanism in "Local" Folder has the same name as a mechanism in "Model" Folder, the mechanism in "Model" Folder will not appear after the DTF file is loaded. Users Affected: V2003 reaction manager users Version Fixed: 2003.0.91
Number: 17664 Summary: No matter what you have set for a piecewise linear variation of a property in the database, the GUI sets the number of points to three. Users Affected: V2003 database users using piecewise linear option for any property Version Fixed: 2003.0.91
Number: 17674 Summary: Surface tension method for liquid spray not written to DTF Users Affected: V2003 users who require surface tension for spray properties Version Fixed: 2003.0.91
Number: 17799
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Summary: Picking on Axes when selecting/grouping VCs could cause a program crash. Users Affected: V2003 CFD-ACE-GUI users Version Fixed: 2003.0.96
Number: 17851 Summary: XCFD-ACE-GUI did not work on HP-UX 11.00. Missing symbols. This can be rectified by installing STL libraries. Users Affected: Those using B.11.00 HP Version Fixed: No program fix made
Number: 17856 Summary: The "modified" flag was not set correctly while reading DTF file. That caused the GUI to ignore all DTF data. Users Affected: Those using Chemistry Database Version Fixed: 2003.0.97
Number: 17875 Summary: If a V2002 DTF contains no Mixtures or Species, we still wrongly called DBM import function, which caused a core dump. Users Affected: Chemistry users using V2002 DTF, which contains no Species or Mixtures Version Fixed: 2003.0.98
Number: 17914 Summary: GUI corrupted mixture name and reaction names Users Affected: Those using the Chemistry module Version Fixed: 2003.0.101 3.5.2 Problems Fixed in CFD-ACE-SOLVER
Number: 17488 Summary: Anisotropic elliptical plate case gives different results than in V2002 Diagnosis: An error in new FEM coding was found. Surprisingly, this case worked properly on all but Windows NT platforms (Windows 2000 worked properly). Users Affected: Those using FEMStress Version Fixed: 2003.0.9
Number: 17603 Summary: Restart with thin-wall failed Diagnosis: Cases with thin walls and heat transfer may not restart smoothly and may create Nans Users Affected: Those using thin walls, heat transfer and restart
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Number: 17619 Summary: A slight modification to an existing (V2002) spray problem failed Diagnosis: The V2003 spray input was completely rewritten and an error affecting this case was introduced. The solver was trying to access data that was not necessary for a 2D model. Users Affected: Those using V2002 2D spray models loaded into V2003 GUI and saved Version Fixed: 2003.0.9
Number: 16246 Summary: New solver over six times slower for problem involving VOF and Stress. Diagnosis: This was related to implementation of new FEM solvers. Inefficiencies have been removed and speed is now comparable to V2002. Users Affected: Those who are performing transient FSI analyses Version Fixed: 2003.0.12
Number: 17604 Summary: Core dump occurred with model using surface-to-surface radiation Diagnosis: Code error was found in which attempt was made to access data that had been de-allocated. Users Affected: Those using the surface-to-surface radiation model Version Fixed: 2003.0.10
Number: 17692 Summary: Biosensor tutorial fails with arithmetic exception on Linux only Diagnosis: Divide by zero occurred on Linux due to a species molecular weight of zero. This calculation was not needed for liquid chemistry and is now skipped. Users Affected: Those using biochemistry and liquid chemistry on Linux and Dec may have experienced this problem Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17721 Summary: Spray + magnetic case failed with error message about programming error. Case worked previously with V2002. Diagnosis: Error with new coding for V2003 caused this failure to occur Users Affected: Those using transient spray + magnetic cases Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17760
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Summary: Program dumped core when heat source was used to fix temperature for two-fluid, enthalpybased model. Diagnosis: Error was found in the setting of the source terms Users Affected: Those using heat sources with two-fluid enthalpy-based model Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17769 Summary: Program crash occurred with model using anisotropic solid conduction and fluid-solid interfaces. Diagnosis: Error was found and corrected Users Affected: As above Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17770 Summary: User access routine get_parameter_value returned the wrong value for a user parameter. Diagnosis: An error in the V2003 version of this routine was found and corrected Users Affected: V2003 users of this routine through version 2003.0.11 Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17786 Summary: Simple Biochemistry Tutorial case hangs after starting. Diagnosis: Change in name of variable in DTF file was made but not accounted for in solver. Proper protection has been made. Users Affected: V2002 biochemistry cases loaded into V2003 GUI and saved Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17790 Summary: Erroneous results with SS model for classic radiation case of two concentric cylinders. Diagnosis: Solution was not converged so results were not meaningful. A warning message was added to the heat transfer summary to indicate that convergence should be checked for those cases in which imbalance is greater than 1% of total heat source. Users Affected: Those solving heat transfer Version Fixed: 2003.0.12
Number: 17819 Summary: A model solving scalar diffusion only failed Diagnosis: For scalar problems without flow, the flow field information is not stored but the solver was trying it anyway. This is now properly protected. Users Affected: Those using scalar diffusion without flow
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Number: 17839 Summary: User requested graphical output of species diffusion coefficients but they were not written Diagnosis: Output of species diffusion coefficient was provided only if species mass fractions were also requested Users Affected: As described above Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17850 Summary: Diffusion coefficient variable names in DTF file have units included in the name Diagnosis: Yes. Units have been removed from the name strings Users Affected: As above Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17855 Summary: Spray and Biochem cases crashed on Linux and Dec Users Affected: Those using spray and biochem Version Fixed: V2003-0-13
Number: 17858 Summary: Case that had been converging diverged on restart Diagnosis: There was a problem related to moving solid and restart Users Affected: Those who are restarting with moving solid features Version Fixed: 2002.0.11
Number: 17873 Summary: Access function getNumFaceNodes returned zero for faces on an arbitrary interface Diagnosis: Error was found and corrected Users Affected: Those using arbitrary interfaces. Spray cases with arbitrary interfaces could show this problem. Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17880 Summary: Expression evaluator incorrectly evaluates .1*t but properly evaluates 0.1*t. Diagnosis: An error was found in evaluating any expressions without a number before the decimal point Users Affected: Any using expressions in input fields Version Fixed: 2003.0.12
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Number: 17883 Summary: Error message and program stop in spray case using arbitrary interface Diagnosis: Another geometric access function was found to not work properly for arbitrary interfaces (similar to 17873) Users Affected: Those using arbitrary interfaces and spray Version Fixed: 2003.0.11
Number: 17900 Summary: Mass flow summary was incorrect for liquid chemistry and biochemistry Diagnosis: For liquid chemistry the species are solved as concentrations, not mass fractions. The mass flow summary assumed mass fractions. Users Affected: Any liquid chemistry or biochemistry users Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
Number: 17833 Summary: Species flux printed output is wrong if inlet diffusion is off Users Affected: Those using chemistry and inlet diffusion off Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
Number: 17863 Summary: Stress Contact Model give different results from Version 2002. Version 2002 results were acceptable. Diagnosis: In Version 2003 only one of the contact surfaces in a "pair" consisting of multiple surfaces would actually be treated as a contact surface. This error has been corrected. Users Affected: Stress users using the contact model with contact pairs containing multiple contact surfaces Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
Number: 17884 Summary: Solver would "hang" after first iteration Diagnosis: This error occurred in the Stress module and was caused by the presence of an arbitrary interface in the model (not in the solid structure though) Users Affected: Those using FSI models with arbitrary interfaces Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
Number: 17921 Summary: User subroutine was used to access species fluxes at a wall boundary but values obtained were too small (~1e-29 when 1e-9 expected)
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Diagnosis: Species flux arrays were not loaded with values for liquid chemistry. It has been properly calculated and fixed. However, we have units related problem that will be fixed in a later version. Users Affected: User sub and species flux Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
Number: 17929 Summary: Moving solid case with heat transfer is not showing same temperatures as V2002 Diagnosis: Face velocities were not calculated correctly for fluid-solid interface Users Affected: Those moving solid and heat Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
Number: 17933 Summary: Deforming grid case in parallel does not run. Works OK in serial Diagnosis: The tfi-pre-processor, a necessary component for moving grid, parallel models, was not included in the software distribution. Users Affected: Those moving grid and parallel Version Fixed: Preprocessor will be added at release of version 2003.0.13
Number: 17937 Summary: User reported "bad" results for non-linear FEM model Analysis: User was looking at non-converged results. The user is running a non-linear problem with only one iteration. modelname_FEM.RSL file shows the convergence of non linear fem iterations. There is one more problem associated with it. Now at this point user tried to run linear problem by switching it to linear in GUI. Solver was still running non-linear even though GUI shows it as linear. The reason is we are reading non-linear options even though higher-level option says it is linear. We have fixed this problem in the solver now. Users Affected: Those who have run the problem first with non-linear and then switched to linear and saved with same name Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
Number: 17963 Summary: An arithmetic exception occurred when using the turbulence intensity boundary condition for K with the SST turbulence model. When these boundary conditions were replaced with a constant value for K a different program failure occurred. Diagnosis: Errors were found and corrected in the calculation of turbulence quantities from boundary values of turbulence intensity and the initial values of hydraulic diameter and length scale. Additionally, another error was found and corrected which caused the second program failure mentioned above. Users Affected: Those using turbulence intensity, length scale or hydraulic diameter for initial conditions for SST model; Turbulence intensity option for boundary condition for the SST model; Any SST model in axisymmetric domain. Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
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Number: 18025 Summary: Program failed when trying to restart from itself (from a solution saved in the DTF file). Solver stopped with the message: Trying to close a file which has not been managed by the DTF file manager File name = Sample.dtf Diagnosis: This problem is related to winnt and restart. This is because winnt treats model.dtf and model.DTF same but if you compare string inside code, they are different and we tried to close same dtf file twice. Uses Affected: Those who restart on winnt if the restart file is the same as the model.DTF but is entered with lower case dtf. Version Fixed: 2003.0.13
3.6

CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.90, SOLVER V2003.0.8) May 29, 2003

All reported problems with degenerate grids have been fixed. Several problems relating to Spray simulations in parallel have been fixed. Several problems with the cfd-ace-mpi script have been corrected. An error in calculation of the Von Mises stresses (in Stress models) has been corrected.
4. Backward Compatibility Issues

Certain differences between the Version 2003 programs and the Version 2002 software require that Version 2002 models be converted to a new form. These conversions are noted below. The CFD-ACEGUI will automatically make these conversions for you or will provide instructions as to any manual settings that might be required or will issue a warning message if any problem was encountered in the conversion. These issues are not relevant to setting up a new problem with the Version 2003 software. If you run the programs from the command line, the executable programs have new names. The GUI is CFD-ACE-GUI (or CFD-ACE-GUI.exe) and the Solver is CFD-ACE-SOLVER (or CFD-ACESOLVER.exe). After installation you should check the default solver specified in the GUI (in Edit:Preferences:Tools) to be sure that CFD-ACE-SOLVER(.exe) is specified. The Stress Module no longer supports second order shell elements as it has been found that first order elements with the new shear-locking formulation provide solutions as accurate as the old second order elements. Second order elements will be automatically converted to first order elements upon loading into the new software and a message will be provided indicating that the conversion has been performed. Triangular shell elements (built from a single layer of prism elements) are no longer supported. Only quad shells are supported. Shell elements require that the thickness direction be specified by selecting a surface normal to the thickness direction. A message indicating where that specification is to be made will be provided upon loading any model using shell elements into the new software. The method of specifying the stress-strain curve for non-linear Stress analysis has changed. Upon loading any existing non-linear analysis problem the GUI will provide a message indicating where the new stress-strain relationship should be provided. The ionization model that was previously supported in Liquid Chemistry has been moved to the Biochemistry option. The GUI will automatically convert existing models to the new form and will display a message to that effect. Biochemistry models with surface reactions may not be converted to the new release properly. The GUI will provide a warning message if conversion is unsuccessful.
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Electroplating models will not be converted to the new release properly. The GUI will provide a warning message for any existing electroplating model. The CHEMKIN interface capability and surface chemistry solver has been replaced with a new CHEMKIN interpreter and the CFD-ACE+ surface chemistry solver. Three Surface CHEMKIN auxiliary information keywords, COV, ENRGDEP and YIELD, have not yet been incorporated at this release. Support for these keywords will be added in the near future. As mentioned in the discussion of new Plasma module features, the under-relaxation practices for Plasma models have been changed in this release. Existing models that are run with this release should show different convergence behavior, typically converging in about half the number of iterations as previously. Existing property and reaction databases will not be automatically converted. However, PMD, RMD and SMD files can be imported into the new database manager. Existing MMD files cannot be imported. If you need assistance with converting these files, please contact us. GUI scripting at this release is not backward compatible.
5. Known Problems
These are the known problems with the latest release. Most or all of those problems will be corrected in a future maintenance release.
5.1
ACE GUI Known Problems
Number: Unknown Summary: Internal interfaces cannot currently be changed to other types (i.e. walls, inlets) in the GUI without receiving a solver error
Number: Unknown Summary: Cannot run GUI scripting without Python (2.1.x) installed.
Number: Unknown Summary: When solving a grid deformation problem in parallel you must have your original, undecomposed, grid and the decomposed grid in the same DTF file. If you load the decomposed grid into the GUI and do a Save As you will lose the original, un-decomposed, grid and the solver will fail.
Number: Unknown Summary: The GUI can be quite slow to save models with a large number of chemical species or spray injectors.
Number: 14099 Summary: If you perform a Save As with a Filament model, the filament information will be lost. You will have to use CFD-Toolkit to re-specify the Filament information. Number: 15736 Summary: Print statement in the user subroutine will halt the solver when submitted from GUI.
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Users Affected: Affects all users using subroutine with print statements or writes to standard out.
Number: 17336 Summary: It is not possible to export liquid/gas/solid or Mixing Rule property information from the GUI to the database.
Number: 17803, 17876, 18166 Summary: GUI can be very slow or appear to stop reading a file. These problems have occurred internally at CFDRC and it is believed they were caused by temporary network problems. All Database files in CFDRC folder are being accessed through the network.
Number: 18183 Summary: Wrong outline for VC in graphics window. Incorrect outline for volume in graphics window. This rare problem has only occurred once.
Number: 18388 Summary: Resizing the help window causes it to not regenerate. Rare and machine, OS version and browser dependent problem.
Number: 18433 Summary: Switching from general chemistry to bio leaves the old active species in the active analyte list. This will be fixed in V2004 but not in V2003 as it is a benign error. There will simply be some unnecessary information in the Active mixtures and species list. It affects those who switch between regular Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Number: 18546 Summary: Copy and paste (ctrl-c + cntrl-v) doesn't work. If a widget was destroyed, ctrl-v will not work. This is a FOX Behavior. A workaround has been identified but not implemented.
Number: 18854 Summary: Modified flag improperly set by database. In some cases, the database will set the modified flag even though no data were actually changed. Because this is a benign error, it will be corrected in V2004 but not in the V2003 version. It affects database users. Number: 18875 Summary: Copy failed to copy the current values of species data in the database. Diagnosis: If the user pastes to other place, the data will be correct. However, in some case, if them never leave the current material, the data won't be saved into disk, and the pasted data may not be the user's current modified data. Will be fixed in V2004.
Number: 19425
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Summary: Some species are displayed in analytes list. It happens when user changing Liquid Chemistry to Biochemistry.
Number: 19835 Summary: Residual plotter does not use exact scale limits requested.
Number: 19890 Summary: Save As can lose some Initial condition mixture information. Diagnosis: This can occur for some older DTF files.
Number: 19972 Summary: Database manager allows bulk species to be used in volume reactions.
Number: 20092 Summary: Latent heat of fusion value for Aluminum Alloy low by factor of 1000.
Number: 20156 Summary: Unexpected fields are changed when IC variables are set with script. Diagnosis: In the script function, the wrong cell group pointer is used when change the IC variables. Users Affected: Script users
Number: 20203 Summary: Crash while running GUI script. In the script, saving a file immediately after cyclic grouping will cause Segmentation fault. Script users
5.2
ACE Solver Known Problems
Number: Unknown Summary: CFD-ACE-SOLVER and CFD-VIEW can report different cell center values (comparing, say, monitor values obtained from the solver and point probe values obtained from View). This is because View works from nodal values that are interpolated by the solver from the cell-center solution values. From these nodal values, it is not possible for View to recover the original cell-center values.
Number: Unknown Summary: The VOF method does not necessarily conserve mass of the primary fluid.
Number: 11983 Summary: Convergence problem at near vacuum conditions. In low-pressure problems, it is usually necessary to use a very small lower limit on pressure and density. Otherwise, negative densities and pressures can occur and the solver stops. The limits usually allow convergence to be obtained but in one particular problem, convergence was still difficult to procure. A secondary problem, when convergence
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was obtained was the behavior of species diffusion in the very low-pressure regions. Diffusion coefficients were extremely large resulting in large, unphysical depositions.
Number: 13167, 16624 Summary: Arbitrary Interface cases can display several problems: Arbitrary interfaces located within similar material can predict temperatures and pressures outside expected bounds. A non-physical total pressure rise has been predicted across an arbitrary interface (PR 13167) Arbitrary interface cases in which the solver fails with the message Cannot Form New Faces in form_face can sometimes be corrected by reversing the projection direction in the GUI (PR 16624) Arbitrary interface cases with multiple cells being projected into a single cell can fail to work properly.
Number: 14141 Summary: Unusual mesh produces non-physical flow solution. The mesh used has some severely skewed cells and a slight change to the mesh can cause the solver to produce correct solutions. This is the only case in which this behavior has been observed.
Number: 14720 Summary: BEM solver does not produce same results as FVM solver. Several problems with the BEM solver have been reported (inaccurate results, large memory use, slow) and an alternative solver is being sought.
Number: 15375 Summary: Incorrect Nusselt number prediction for turbulent heat transfer case using k-epsilon model. The predicted Nusselt number does not match well with the experimentally measured one (although there are some questions about just how the experimental number was calculated). This problem is under investigation.
Number: 15870 Summary: BC integral output may not be labeled properly. (PR 15870)
Number: 15879 Summary: Parallel case shows poor convergence of pressure correction solver. In some cases, a parallel run will show failure of the pressure correction solver to converge while a serial run does not show the problem. Investigations of the parallel solver implementation are under way.
Number: 15907 Summary: FSI case gives negative volumes.
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Number: 15941 Summary: Fixed total pressure boundary condition fails to converge.
Number: 16100, 16953 Summary: Nodal solution values (used by CFD-VIEW) at parallel boundaries can be different for the same problem when run serial and parallel. This is an output issue and should not affect the solution values that are obtained at cell centers. However, two cases have been reported in which incorrect solution values were obtained at parallel interfaces (PRs 16100 and 16953)
Number: 16624 Summary: Creation of arbitrary interface failed. Arbitrary interface capability was used to rotate one domain inside a stationary domain. This succeeds for one-half a revolution (10 time steps) and then fails. Reversing the direction of arbitrary interface projection eliminated the problem.
Number: 17055 Summary: Solver diverges when centerline cell has two cyclic faces.
Number: 17289, 19749 Summary: Solver stops if user opens monitor point file using program that write-locks the file. Monitor point files are opened each time it is necessary to write to the file and then closed again. On Windows platforms, if the user opens the monitor point file with a program that write-locks the file, e.g., Excel, then the next open of the file by the solver will fail and the solver will stop.
Number: 17334 Summary: Solver performance is poorer in parallel than serial. Solution of the pressure correction equation can degrade in parallel. In this case, the AMG solver converged fine in serial and with four processors but when eight processors were used it failed to converge at several flow solution iterations.
Number: 17456 Summary: Negative volumes occurred in a coupled Stress and Electric problem.
Number: 17513 Summary: The solver can fail if the DTF utility is used to perform an Update (-ud) or View Data (-vd) operation on the DTF file while the solver is running. (PR 17513)
Number: 17544 Summary: Semi-device solver fails when compiled debug.
Number: 17682 Summary: FSI problem generates negative volumes.
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Number: 17701 Summary: Semi-device solver goes out of array bounds when compiled debug.
Number: 17829 Summary: Case failed on Linux (only) with error message that a boundary patch name did not match any boundary condition names in the DTF file. The .par file was transferred from a Windows machine and had trailing control-M's in each record.
Number: 17852 Summary: Poor convergence of species transport.
Number: 17896 Summary: Second order upwind for species transport gives negative concentration.
Number: 17942 Summary: Parallel run fails on Windows system. Cause has not been found but this is the only system on which the error has occurred.
Number: 18085 Summary: Calculation of Jcr_y for graphics output is incorrect. This occurs for one type of boundary condition and the error is only for the graphics output. Electric potential is calculated and output correctly.
Number: 18328 Summary: Corrupt DTF file causes solver to crash.
Number: 18332 Summary: Specified temperature volume condition causes non-physical results for chemistry case.
Number: 18442 Summary: DOM radiation case shows good convergence but heat imbalance in the 3% range.
Number: 18473 Summary: Different results from INTERNAL and INTERNALT for EPlate(S C Solutions) Test solver is generating better E-Plate results than V2003.
Number: 18544 Summary: Non-physical results generated for turbulent flow on unstructured mesh: Domain has a large "thin" region with just a single cell across the thin direction (normal to flow direction). Convergence is not good and good results should probably not be expected.
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Number: 18579 Summary: Solver fails to read .DAT file for boundary condition. File has non-printing control characters. Probably due to improper file transfer between Windows and Unix.
Number: 18644 Summary: Flow solver fail after starting parallel run.
Number: 18737 Summary: Two-fluid turbulent case diverges.
Number: 18811 Summary: In a low-pressure case using Ideal Gas Law for density, pressures less than zero were obtained and nearly a million warning messages were generated. This is mostly a modeling issue, as setting a minimum pressure would have eliminated most of the warning messages. User should also use slip walls for this case. We should look at reducing the warning messages that were generated in this case and at setting a minimum pressure automatically. User Affected: Affects users modeling low-pressure cases with density dependent upon pressure.
Number: 18823 Summary: Incorrect BC Integral output.
Number: 18857 Summary: Error message "/usr/bin/env: No such file or directory" does not provide much help in determining cause of problem (Python not installed).
Number: 19034 Summary: Incorrect electrostatic force calculation when model includes two adjacent dielectric materials with different relativity permittivity values.
Number: 19068 Summary: No parallel speedup for VOF cases. A VOF case with 26972 cells is actually showing a performance degradation when run on tw processors instead of serial. Unfortunately, parallel works best on large cases (hundreds of thousands of cells). VOF cases are time-consuming because they are transient with many time steps.
Number: 19127 Summary: Parallel case fails after second iteration. Diagnosis: It is related to creating huge number during AMG cycle for turbulence variables. Case runs ok if user switches AMG to CGS solver for turbulence.
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Number: 19180 Summary: Output file has Control M characters.
Number: 19281 Summary: Unable to get correct results for non-linear and contact analysis problems. Analysis: This problem is not with non-linear model, but may be with contact model. Without contact model, user gets correct results as expected. This problem occurs if target is a curved surface (>180) and while code is trying to get the intersection point between contact node and target surface. User has work around, by cutting the big surface and specifying different pair names. Users Affected: Any user who is using target surface (>180deg) and single pair name is used for whole surface in contact analysis.
Number: 19288 Summary: Poor convergence of laminar, two fluid case.
Number: 19377 Summary: VOF case with surface tension shows different results on Windows and Linux
Number: 19437 Summary: Model with symmetry plane shows different results than when full model is simulated. Diagnosis: Differences are reduced when orthogonality at the symmetry plane is improved. Will investigate further.
Number: 19497 Summary: VOF case with compressible gas phase diverges.
Number: 19498 Summary: Results with block coarsening look incorrect.
Number: 19663 Summary: Graphical output of density shows discontinuity at material interface. Diagnosis: The discontinuity occurs where a zone boundary crosses the material interface. This happens for any field that is discontinuous across the material interface.
Number: 19742 Summary: Different results with VOF and one-cell model vs full 3D.
Number: 19743 Summary: Unexpected analyte diffusion across gas-liquid interface in VOF/Biochem case.
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Number: 19744 Summary: Parallel fuel cell case has sudden divergence. Diagnosis: Preliminary investigation shows no problem in serial so parallel implementation is the likely cause.
Number: 19773 Summary: Sudden divergence of VOF and biochemistry case.
Number: 19809 Summary: Enthalpy error for bc parametric input under vof cases. Diagnosis: when parametric bc is applied for enthalpy, VOF is not handled properly.
Number: 19848, 19911 Summary: Solver crashes after 13919 timesteps of VOF with surface tension.
Number: 19885 Summary: Error message reported by the flow solver is "DTF Error 8: Bad handle". Diagnosis: This usually means that the DTF file is corrupted, although on its own the error message is useless for end users. Should change this to something along the lines of "Bad handle. The DTF file may be corrupted. Please try running DTF -tc on this file to test it".
Number: 20018 Summary: Zero diffusivity values for gas species cause solver crash.
Number: 20052, 20053 Summary: Solver crashes reading the fmt file. Diagnosis: The .fmt file had special characters that caused solver to fail on reading.
Number: 20058 Summary: VoF not working when there are unstructured solid regions
Number: 20063 Restart of VOF, FSI case with auto timestep fails.
Number: 20089 Summary: Nan found in user scalar equation and code stopped. Diagnosis: Appears as if invalid inputs of A=B=C=0 for user scalar at inlet were used. If these are invalid inputs then we need to just detect the condition and stop with an error message.
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Number: 20164 Summary: dtf_decompose script not found but it is in the $CFDRCDIR/bin directory. Diagnosis: Parallel execution script on Windows NT is not preserving the path name properly when it has blanks in it (e.g., Program Files).
Number: 20169 Summary: Plasma CCP case crashes if number of sinusoid boundaries are zero.
Number: 20190 Summary: Code crashes for second order wall option applied to one-cell wall.
Number: 20191 Summary: Expression involving iteration not being evaluated properly.
Number: 20213 Summary: One cell wide structured grid thin walls are not supported.
Number: 20215 Summary: spaces removed from the directory path of CFDRCDIR environment variable.
Number: 20216 Summary: Output DTF file name for transient run with time steps greater than 99999 cannot be used for animation.
Number: 20218 Summary: Arithmetic exception (1st iteration) when using lower relaxation values for enthalpy and species (0.005).
Number: 20225 Summary: AC conduction model converged at V2003.0.2 and now diverges.
Number: 20242 Summary: Thermal conductivity values are not shown correctly in the graphical results. Diagnosis: The quantity written to the DTF file is the effective thermal conductivity that is equal to the actual thermal conductivity plus the turbulent conductivity for fluid regions.
Number: 20260
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Summary: Spray Species Name that doesn't match Material name causes problems.
Number: 20266 Summary: Poor Spray Parallel Performance has been reported for Itanium 2.
Number: 20270 Summary: "Process is alive" message on Itanium comes after completion for parallel cases.
Number: 20278 Summary: Expression evaluation failing for USER_DEFINED parameter.
Number: 20281 Summary: Solver crashes for parallel VOF with spherical initialization.
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CFD-ACE+ 2003 Release Notes

2. Major New Features

CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.136, SOLVER V2003.0.28) October 27, 2003

CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.124, SOLVER V2003.0.23) September 17, 2003

CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.112, SOLVER V2003.0.15) July 29, 2003

CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.104, SOLVER V2003.0.13) July 1, 2003

CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.90, SOLVER V2003.0.8) May 29, 2003

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Thin walls can now be used with the magnetic module

CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.139, SOLVER V2003.0.30) December 1, 2003

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Number: 19623 Summary: Core dump with Filament model.

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Number: 19834 Summary: Core dump in biochem module

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CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.136, SOLVER V2003.0.28) October 27, 2003

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Number: 19098 Summary: No species diffusion at inlets with zero velocity.

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Number: 19284 Summary: Incorrect shear force in summary report.

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CFD-ACE+ (GUI V2003.0.124, SOLVER V2003.0.23) September 17, 2003

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