Of course

Finally completed the thermal model for the major change last week, but of course it cannot run properly.

Some unknown error when reading view factor, can calculate the view factor just fine but when trying to read/write to local hard drive, it just errored out.

Looked up the internet for solution and recommendation. Tried whatever I could but still no dice.

Changed to another radiation model that's more computing resource intensive and suddenly the model has no problem running...

WTF is going on? I have been using the other radiation model for ages, as recent as the previous version of the model last week and it had no problem.

I have no time to debug that, and probably is something beyond my capability anyway, so all I can do now is to use the more computing resource intensive radiation model.

The simulation ran overnight is completed, residuals are good, no divergence and all that. But the temperature is unreasonable high all round. Of course, things cannot just go well for me.

The first thing I checked is the power input. I triple checked and don't see anything wrong with the input. I post-processed the solved case and don't see anything strange with the flow field.

So WTF is wrong with the model? Spent the whole day debugging, and not really getting anywhere.

While I am still cracking my head on this, the team lead informed us there is another major change, the system dimensions are totally different now.

Of course.

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