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Old   March 24, 2010, 01:34
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Hello

I changed the values in the solution initilization panel and the result differed from the previous values on the residual plot. In the previous iterations on the residual graph continuity was at 10^-4 but now it is at 10^-2. Why it is so? The values and everything is same but just changing the initial values at the solution initialization panel changed the result.

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giving good initialization field will help convergence.
At the opposite a poor one won't help
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Thank you Max

But whatever is the assumed initialization in the end the result would be same. I mean first good assumption takes less time to converge while bad assumption takes more time to converge. but both can converge in the end.

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Thank you Max

But whatever is the assumed initialization in the end the result would be same. I mean first good assumption takes less time to converge while bad assumption takes more time to converge. but both can converge in the end.

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From my own experience, I can say that a poor/wrong initialization can gives you a false and converged solution.
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