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The Absolute Tolerance of the scaled damage indicator variable is set to 1, meaning that these variable are neglected in the error estimate.
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If the Adaptive mesh refinement option is selected in the study settings, the error indicator is set to , where θd, sm is the smoothed indicator of necrotic tissue (the fraction of necrotic tissue, θd, is discontinuous in general).
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If the Temperature threshold option is used in the Biological Tissue feature, the instant necrosis indicator, alphanecr, is placed in the Previous Solution step. This setting avoids wrong detection of irreversible damage due to nonlinear iterations that may go through a state where the damage criteria is met and then converge to a solution where the damage criteria is no longer met. It uses a direct linear solver. The default nonlinear method is the Newton method with constant damping factor.
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The Absolute Tolerance of the scaled irreversible transformation indicator dependent variable is set to 1.
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An implicit way is to define a lower relative tolerance in the study settings. When the relative tolerance is lowered, the absolute tolerance should be reduced in the same proportion. The default Relative tolerance is set to 0.01 for Time-Dependent studies, and to 0.1 for Stationary studies.
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The most explicit way is to define a maximum time step. This is an appropriate option when the same maximum time step is relevant for the entire simulation. Otherwise, it is possible to include times of interest in the Times field of the time-dependent study and to use the Intermediate option in the Time Stepping settings.
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Lastly you can control the time step by triggering an event when a particular condition is meet (see the documentation about The Events Interface in the COMSOL Multiphysics Reference Manual). This advanced method can be efficient when the other simpler methods are not applicable.
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Time-Dependent Solver in the COMSOL Multiphysics Reference Manual
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