Hi, Krishna. It would be more clear to plot the residuals on a semi-log plot (or equivalently plot the log of residual vs sweep number) to more clearly show the value of the small residuals, as the plots in that link make it look to me like the residuals all go to zero.
Ray On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Gopalakrishnan, Krishnakumar < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > We are solving a system of 5 coupled non-linear PDEs. > > > > As shown in this plot of residuals vs. sweep count > https://imperialcollegelondon.box.com/s/9davbq2gq5eani98xuuj2cw9tmz4mbu3 > , our residuals die down very slowly, i.e. the solver bottoms out. The > drop in all the residuals is linear at first, and then asymptotically > bottoms out to a value. > > > > How do we get our residuals to drop faster, i.e. with lesser sweeps and > faster convergence ? I tried changing solvers and tolerances, but curiously > enough the results remain identical. > > > > Any pointers on this will be much appreciated. > > > > > > Krishna > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fipy mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy > [ NIST internal ONLY: https://email.nist.gov/mailman/listinfo/fipy ] > >
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