[sparta-users] Surface and flow mesh resolutions

[Zuheyr A. <zuh...@vk...>]

Dear Colleagues,

I am not new to Sparta but I am mostly moving in the dark due to lack of time, despite the very valuable community help I get here.

I have a small model of 5mm x 4mm x 0.5mm at high Kn flow but still with collisions, density about 1.4e+16 /m^3.

I normally choose the flow mesh resolution from the principles of at least around 15 particles in a cell, and particle travel time in the cell, usually time step is 1/3rd of the particle travel time. The surface mesh usually coarsest mesh with well surface definition.

My question is the meaning of the  Nscoll Nscheck variables and their reasonable orders.

With 100 x 50 x 30 flow mesh and  31000 element surface mesh:
Nscoll=401,414, Nscheck=289,249,273, Natt=0, Ncoll=0, 11k particles.

Same flow mesh with a surface mesh of 3500 elements, and same number of particles:
Nscoll=398264  and Nscheck=44803563.

Slow... Can you please share your ideas? This is a very basic question.

Many thanks for reading.

Zuheyr






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