Review Force in the Transcript

Review the Sum values recorded for the Force transfer in the final coupling iteration to verify that the forces sent by Fluent match those received by Mechanical.

Figure 44: Force at Coupling Step 100, Iteration 4


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| COUPLING STEP = 100                       SIMULATION TIME = 1.00000E-02 [s] |
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|                             COUPLING ITERATIONS                             |
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|                                     |      Source            Target         |
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|                           COUPLING ITERATION = 4                            |
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| MAPDL Transient                     |                                       |
|   Interface: CouplingInterface 1    |                                       |
|     Force                           |         Not yet converged             |
|       RMS Change                    |     2.29E-01          1.43E-01        |
|       Sum x                         |     7.05E-04          7.05E-04        |
|       Sum y                         |     7.13E-04          7.13E-04        |
|       Sum z                         |    -1.02E-15         -1.02E-15        |
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