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Document/Example for the use of the convergence parameter "configurationTolerance"

Open sytuannguyen opened this issue 4 months ago • 1 comments

What needs to be documented? The parameter configurationTolerance in the solver SolidMechanicsLagrangeContact defines the acceptable converged ratio between the contact area change and the total contact area as shown below:

// Assume converged if changed area is below certain fraction of total area
  return changedArea <= m_nonlinearSolverParameters.m_configurationTolerance * totalArea;

First, the default value of parameter is actually set to 0, which makes the simulation always fail to converge in some senarios (for example a cased wellbore with initial stress condition).

Second, no document or xml example is available to show the importance of this parameter for the simulation convergence.

What sort of documentation would help?

  • XML example using configurationTolerance.
  • Change the default value to a more reasonable value, or simply change it to 1.0

What are the deficiencies of the existing documentation?

Additional notes or context

sytuannguyen avatar Oct 02 '24 07:10 sytuannguyen