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APPENDIX C. GUIDE TO RTD SIMULATION CODE 144<br />

– ”Max Value” - Sets the upper bound on the voltage parameter for the<br />

continuation run.<br />

– ”Min Value” - Sets the lower bound on the voltage parameter for the<br />

continuation run.<br />

– ”Max Steps” - Sets the maximum number of continutation steps attempted<br />

in the run.<br />

– ”Initial Step Size” - Sets the initial step to take in the voltage parameter<br />

in the continuation run.<br />

– ”Aggressiveness” - Value chosen in (0, 1] that determines how drastically<br />

LOCA increases the step size in the continuation parameter after success-<br />

fully converging the previous value of the continuation parameter. This<br />

is currently set to 0.5. To generate a smoother I-V curve over a specified<br />

voltage range, one can lower the aggressiveness value.<br />

• Nonlinear Solver<br />

– Convergence criteria - The nonlinear iteration terminates when the non-<br />

linear residual norm is less than a specified tolerance (currently 10 −9 )or<br />

after a maximum number of iterations (currently 7).<br />

• Linear Solver<br />

– ”Max Iterations” - Maximum number of iterations GMRES will take to<br />

solve linear system. This is currently set to 500.

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