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-checkThreshold/-noCheckThreshold

Turns on/off (default on) checking and updating for values falling below the given threshold after a nonlinear update. Values below the threshold are replaced with either the -minConc or their previous value if -minConcIsOldConc is specified.

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 value to avoid converging to an incorrect fixed point in the nonlinear solver.

This should have been a per-field flag.



Dan Yergeau
Thu Nov 7 17:12:57 PST 1996