big particle algo found more cells (1004) than storage is prepered (1000)

Submitted by vonboetticher on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 09:38

Hello, I work with resolved CFDEM and it seems there is alimit in the number of cells that can be inside of a particle. I get the error:

big particle algo found more cells (1004) than storage is prepered (1000)

Anyone faces the same problem?

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alice | Mon, 04/22/2013 - 14:24

Hello,
the source of this message lies in a setting in the couplingProperties file: the properties that correspond to the voidfraction model (IB) allow for the setting of the "maxCellsPerParticle". This is the max number of cells that can be covered by one immersed object. This value is set to 1000 by default, increasing it to any value larger or equal to 1004 will eliminate this problem.
Cheers,
Alice