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June 4, 2012, 03:51	a question about relaxation control	#1
doctor evil New Member mj Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 16	dear all, recently I did some attempt on adjusting the relaxation factor in PHOENICS, seeing what will happen. before doing this i was convinced that the relaxation should be very small for non-isothermal problems, but when i tried to make the relaxation bigger and bigger, i found that the divergence didn't happen ( however, nor did the convergence). my question is, is the relaxation factor the bigger the better?

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