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-checkThreshold/-noCheckThreshold

Turns on/off (default on) checking for values falling below the field warn threshold value after a nonlinear update. A summary is printed if any are found.

In Alamode the unknowns typically represent a concentration, and it is not physical to have negative concentrations. The nonlinear solution may compute negative concentrations due to overshoot. It is usually a good idea to adjust these values to avoid converging to an incorrect fixed point in the nonlinear solver.



Dan Yergeau
Wed Aug 20 14:01:54 PDT 1997