Short update: Changing the threshold from 1e-6 to 1e-8 did not change 
anything, it still loops at the same values as final values.

Am Freitag, 6. Oktober 2017 11:56:59 UTC+2 schrieb Maxi Miller:
>
> Concerning the first point: 
> Currently I am controlling the solver as in
>         SolverControl solver_control (dof_handler.n_dofs(),
>                                       (system_rhs.l2_norm() > 0) ? 1e-6 * 
> system_rhs.l2_norm() : 1e-6);
> Is your suggestion to decrease that threshold?
> Concerning the second point:
> Yes, my residual is decreasing, until it stops at a certain point, 
> together with the l2-norm. It never increases (and it never should). I am 
> still using a fixed step size, but will change that later.
>
>
> Am Freitag, 6. Oktober 2017 11:52:06 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Arndt:
>>
>> Maxi,
>>
>> two more ideas:
>> - Is the residual from the linear solve sufficiently small? Does 
>> decreasing the tolerance help?
>> - Provided the Newton matrix is invertible you are running in the 
>> direction of steepest decent. 
>> In particular, you should see your residual decreasing if the step size 
>> you are taking is sufficiently small
>> as explained in 
>> https://www.dealii.org/8.5.0/doxygen/deal.II/step_15.html#Steplengthcontrol. 
>> Are you already following this idea?
>>
>> Best,
>> Daniel
>>
>

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