Matching Settings

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Main settings that affect the number of model calculations:

• Number of restarts – number of model matching attempts. In some complex cases the matching algorithm may fail to find the optimal solution (for example, it may stop at a local minimum). In that case you can try running model matching again, excluding previously found solutions from consideration;
• Iterations per restart – number of material balance model calculations that will be performed in each matching attempt.

Thus, the total number of material balance model calculations equals the number of restarts multiplied by the number of iterations per restart.

The remaining settings usually do not need to be changed. All of them are parameters of the differential evolution algorithm used to match the material balance model.