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-useUpdateNorm/-noUpdateNorm

Turns on/off the use of the update norm (eq. 4.42) as a way of determining convergence. The default is on. This should be turned off if it believed that the update norm is not a reasonable convergence measure.

Turning this on is useful if the behavior of the residual indicates numerical truncation error (i.e. if the residual reduces rapidly, but then bottoms out at a level insufficient to satisfy the residual convergence tests). This behavior can show up with very small time steps (TR/BDF2 and the concentration form of the generalized trapezoid family subtract nearly equal vectors that are proportional to tex2html_wrap_inline2714 ) and nearly equilibrium reactive-diffusive systems.



Dan Yergeau
Wed Jun 18 19:17:04 PDT 1997