This widget gives an idea of how the current calculation is progressing.

It may be improved in the future, but for the time being the estimation is rather crude and based simply on the number of time step done on the total number of time step specified by users. Initialization steps are not accounted for. For some radiation problems, initial step may turn out to be quite time consuming when lots of radiation patches are involved, it explains then why the progress bar takes some time to start.

It means, also that if the CPU time required to solve each time step varies a lot during a transient the estimation may be unaccurate.

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SYRTHES version : 4.1.0
Name help file : progressBar.html
I. Rupp, C. Peniguel - january 2013
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