Printout problem with TIMES
I want to use DELAF function in TIMES, but no matter how I assign the value, the printout in FOFT won't change. Is there any format error in my input file?
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I think TOUGH2 is doing what it should do.
FOFT controls the printout of a fixed number of parameters at each time step for the listed elements.
TIMES controls the printout of main output tables. So, TIMES cannot affect FOFT printout.
If you want to change the parameters printed by FOFT, you need to modify subroutine FGTAB inside the EOS module you are using.
Alfredo
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But I can use TIMES to modfify my printout. I am wondering that can I use a smaller time step before a specific time step, and after that, use a bigger time step.
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OK. This seems to be a different question, but I'm not sure to have understood what you would like to have.
I think TIMES lets you specify at which simulation times the code shall make a printout.
It does not allow you to force in some way the time steps to be employed between the times specified under the keyword TIMES. Time stepping between two consecutive TIMES values is chosen by TOUGH2 depending on the convergence performance and related control parameters, such as MOP(16).
If I remember well, one of the issues is that the code may have to cut the time step to honor a specific TIMES value and then it uses the reduced time step to define the next one. If the reduced time step is very small, then the code needs several time step increments to recover the initial time stepping.
It does not seem to be the case looking at your input and output. Time steps is 15 s, equal to the time difference between TIMES values.
regards,
Alfredo