Review Losses in the Transcript

Review the Sum value recorded for the final coupling iteration to verify that the losses sent by Maxwell match those received by Fluent.

Figure 32: Losses reported in the Transcript at Coupling Step 1, Iteration 4


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| COUPLING STEP = 1                                                           |
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|                             COUPLING ITERATIONS                             |
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|                                     |      Source            Target         |
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...

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|                           COUPLING ITERATION = 4                            |
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...

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| Fluid Flow (Fluent)                 |                                       |
|   Interface: Rotor                  |                                       |
|     Rotor Losses                    |             Converged                 |
|       RMS Change                    |     3.50E-09          9.53E-10        |
|       Sum                           |     5.13E+00          5.13E+00        |
|   Interface: Stator                 |                                       |
|     Stator Losses                   |             Converged                 |
|       RMS Change                    |     9.15E-09          7.12E-09        |
|       Sum                           |     8.20E+01          8.20E+01        |
|   Interface: Magnets                |                                       |
|     Magnet Losses                   |             Converged                 |
|       RMS Change                    |     1.00E-14          1.00E-14        |
|       Sum                           |     7.20E-01          7.20E-01        |
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