Specifies the maximum number of nonlinear steps to take in trying to meet the convergence criteria. The default is 20. Values less than or equal to zero are equivalent to infinity (never give up). Reasonable nonlinear systems should converge in 3-10 nonlinear steps.
A failure of the nonlinear solve does not terminate the simulation. It exits the nonlinear solver and returns an error condition to the calling level. If the calling level was a -staticSolve, the error will be caught by the TCL interpreter. If the calling level was a timestepping algorithm, the timestepping algorithm will attempt to resolve with a smaller time step unless -minDeltaT is reached.