OGS
[tag] damping

A positive damping factor.

The default value 1.0 gives a non-damped Newton method. Common values are in the range 0.5 to 0.7 for somewhat conservative method and seldom become smaller than 0.2 for very conservative approach.

Additional info

From NumLib/ODESolver/NonlinearSolver.cpp line 533

  • This is an optional parameter.
  • This parameter has a default value of 1.0.
  • Data type: double
  • Expanded tag path: nonlinear_solvers.nonlinear_solver.damping
  • Go to source code: → ogs/ogs/master

Used in the following test data files