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    Member
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    Registered: ‎05-11-2012

    Energy Balance Agreement

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    09-10-2012 01:20 PM

    When looking at manuel convergence, especially for natural convection where you can have fluctuations in pressure and flow, what is a good estimate for convergence for the energy balance.  Should the energy balance be in agreement to within 1%, 5%, 10% of the heat load?  Any guidelines for this would be helpful.

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    wildej
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    Registered: ‎08-25-2011

    Re: Energy Balance Agreement

    10-02-2012 12:08 AM in reply to: brandonnoska

    To be honest, I tend to look at the temperature convergence, when this is flat and the rest of the variables are sufficiently stable I would stop it. I would have thought that the energy balance should be within 10% or less also, it really depends on the mesh though.



    Jon Wilde
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    Autodesk, Inc.


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