STOR1 is a variable controlling the amount of storage allocated in the Z array for the array A and the amount of storage allocated in the IX array for the array JA. For most problems, a value of 3.0 should be adequate (table 2).

Table 2.

STOR2 is a variable controlling the amount of storage allocated in the Z array for the arrays U and FRHS, and the amount of storage allocated in the IX array for the array IA. For most problems, a value of 2.2 should be adequate (table 2).

Table 2.

STOR3 is a variable controlling the amount of storage allocated in the IX array for the array IG. For most problems, a value of 5.4 should be adequate (table 2).

Table 2.

ICG is a variable controlling whether or not conjugate gradient iterations are used at the end of each multigrid cycle. A value of 1 indicates that conjugate gradient iterations will be performed, while a value of 0 indicates no conjugate gradient iterations will be performed. All other values are automatically reset to 0. For some problems, using conjugate gradient iterations can improve convergence, but it will increase the memory used by the solver.

MXITER is the maximum number of iterations – that is, calls to the AMG solver. For linear problems, MXITER can be set equal to 2. For nonlinear problems, MXITER generally needs to be larger, but rarely more than 50.

MXCYC is the maximum number of cycles allowed per call to the solver. This is similar to the variable ITER1 in PCG2 (Hill, 1990, p. 13). A value of 50 is suggested. For some nonlinear problems, however, faster convergence may be achieved by reducing MXCYC and increasing MXITER.

BCLOSE is the budget closure criterion for the scaled L2 norm of the matrix equations (eq. 3). A value similar to RCLOSE of PCG2 (Hill, 1990, p. 12-14) should be used. If the global budget error is too large, decrease BCLOSE by one order of magnitude to reduce the global budget error by about one order of magnitude. This approximation can be used to adjust BCLOSE until a satisfactory solution is attained. See the sections on Convergence Criterion and Tips for Achieving Convergence for more information.

DAMP is a damping/accelerating parameter identical to ACCL of the DE4 (Harbaugh, 1995, p. 12) solver. Generally, a value of 1.0 is sufficient for most problems. However, for nonlinear problems, values less than 1.0 may be necessary to achieve convergence (see problem 5, table 2, for example).

IOUTAMG is a flag that controls the information printed each time step from the solver to the MODFLOW-2000 LIST output file (Harbaugh and others, 2000). Diagnostic messages from the solver are sent to a temporary file called “lmg_err.tmp” except if IOUTAMG=3, when they are printed along with the other iteration information. The “lmg_err.tmp” file is deleted upon successful termination of the solver. If the solver should fail, the output in this file may help to identify solver problems. The possible values of IOUTAMG and the information printed to the LIST file are as follows.

DUP is the maximum value of DAMP that should be applied at any iteration. If the adaptive scheme calculates a value of DAMP that is greater than DUP, DAMP will be reset to DUP. A value of 1.0 is reasonable for most problems.

DLOW is the minimum value of DAMP that should be applied at any iteration. If the adaptive scheme determines that the value of DAMP should be decreased, it will calculate a new value of DAMP based on DLOW being the minimum (see eq. 7). A value of 0.2 is reasonable for most problems.