FasterCap, while running, provides many informations about what it is doing, plus the result of the calculations.
Here below you can see a copy of FasterCap output text for the capacitance calculation of the two cubes problem, as shown in the Input File Structure section.
In the next pages you can find more information about each section of the output text
Running FasterCap version 5.0.2
Copyright 2013 FastFieldSolvers S.r.l. http://www.fastfieldsolvers.com, All Rights reserved
Starting capacitance extraction with the following parameters:
Input file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\FastFieldSolvers\FasterCap\cubes.lst
Auto calculation with max error: 0.01
Remark: Auto option overrides all other Manual settings
Solution scheme (-g): Collocation, GMRES tolerance (-t): 0.005
Out-of-core free memory to link memory condition (-f): 5
Potential interaction coefficient to mesh refinement ratio (-d): 1
Mesh curvature (-mc): 3
Number of input panels to solver engine: 24
Iteration number #0 ***************************
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Refining the geometry..
Refinement completed
Mesh refinement (-m): 1e+032
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Computing the links..
Number of panels after refinement: 24
Number of links to be computed: 46
Done computing links
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Precond Type(s) (-p): Jacobi
GMRES Iteration: 0 1
GMRES Iteration: 0 1
Capacitance matrix is:
Dimension 2 x 2
g1_mycube 6.49181e-011 -2.07808e-011
g2_mycube -1.76613e-011 6.49235e-011
Solve statistics:
Number of input panels: 12 of which 12 conductors and 0 dielectric
Number of input panels to solver engine: 24
Number of panels after refinement: 24
Number of potential estimates: 23
Number of links: 70 (uncompressed 576, compression ratio is 87.8%)
Max recursion level: 5
Max Mesh relative refinement value: 0.0533222
Iteration time: 0.069000s (0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 s)
Iteration allocated memory: 12330 kilobytes
Iteration number #1 ***************************
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Increasing the geometric refinement..
Refinement completed
Mesh refinement (-m): 0.0377045
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Computing the links..
Number of panels after refinement: 96
Number of links to be computed: 4628
Done computing links
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Precond Type(s) (-p): Jacobi
GMRES Iteration: 0 1 2
GMRES Iteration: 0 1 2
Capacitance matrix is:
Dimension 2 x 2
g1_mycube 8.02789e-011 -2.59788e-011
g2_mycube -2.59743e-011 8.02738e-011
Weighted Frobenius norm of the difference between capacitance (auto option): 0.199681
Solve statistics:
Number of input panels: 12 of which 12 conductors and 0 dielectric
Number of input panels to solver engine: 24
Number of panels after refinement: 96
Number of potential estimates: 2314
Number of links: 4724 (uncompressed 9216, compression ratio is 48.7%)
Max recursion level: 13
Max Mesh relative refinement value: 0.0373801
Iteration time: 0.035000s (0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 s)
Iteration allocated memory: 12360 kilobytes
Iteration number #2 ***************************
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Increasing the geometric refinement..
Refinement completed
Mesh refinement (-m): 0.0264317
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Computing the links..
Number of panels after refinement: 192
Number of links to be computed: 11048
Done computing links
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Precond Type(s) (-p): Jacobi
GMRES Iteration: 0 1 2 3
GMRES Iteration: 0 1 2 3
Capacitance matrix is:
Dimension 2 x 2
g1_mycube 8.1187e-011 -2.64358e-011
g2_mycube -2.64368e-011 8.11959e-011
Weighted Frobenius norm of the difference between capacitance (auto option): 0.011994
Solve statistics:
Number of input panels: 12 of which 12 conductors and 0 dielectric
Number of input panels to solver engine: 24
Number of panels after refinement: 192
Number of potential estimates: 5524
Number of links: 11240 (uncompressed 36864, compression ratio is 69.5%)
Max recursion level: 14
Max Mesh relative refinement value: 0.0264134
Iteration time: 0.057000s (0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 s)
Iteration allocated memory: 12402 kilobytes
Iteration number #3 ***************************
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Increasing the geometric refinement..
Refinement completed
Mesh refinement (-m): 0.0186771
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Computing the links..
Number of panels after refinement: 288
Number of links to be computed: 21936
Done computing links
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Precond Type(s) (-p): Jacobi
GMRES Iteration: 0 1 2 3
GMRES Iteration: 0 1 2 3
Capacitance matrix is:
Dimension 2 x 2
g1_mycube 8.1964e-011 -2.6891e-011
g2_mycube -2.68863e-011 8.19668e-011
Weighted Frobenius norm of the difference between capacitance (auto option): 0.0103921
Solve statistics:
Number of input panels: 12 of which 12 conductors and 0 dielectric
Number of input panels to solver engine: 24
Number of panels after refinement: 288
Number of potential estimates: 10968
Number of links: 22224 (uncompressed 82944, compression ratio is 73.2%)
Max recursion level: 16
Max Mesh relative refinement value: 0.0186339
Iteration time: 0.058000s (0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 s)
Iteration allocated memory: 12444 kilobytes
Iteration number #4 ***************************
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Increasing the geometric refinement..
Refinement completed
Mesh refinement (-m): 0.0131762
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Computing the links..
Number of panels after refinement: 480
Number of links to be computed: 45824
Done computing links
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Precond Type(s) (-p): Jacobi
GMRES Iteration: 0 1 2 3 4
GMRES Iteration: 0 1 2 3 4
Capacitance matrix is:
Dimension 2 x 2
g1_mycube 8.26757e-011 -2.73819e-011
g2_mycube -2.73807e-011 8.26804e-011
Weighted Frobenius norm of the difference between capacitance (auto option): 0.00994789
Solve statistics:
Number of input panels: 12 of which 12 conductors and 0 dielectric
Number of input panels to solver engine: 24
Number of panels after refinement: 480
Number of potential estimates: 22912
Number of links: 46304 (uncompressed 230400, compression ratio is 79.9%)
Max recursion level: 18
Max Mesh relative refinement value: 0.0131762
Iteration time: 0.092000s (0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 s)
Iteration allocated memory: 12530 kilobytes
Total allocated memory: 12530 kilobytes
Total time: 0.311000s (0 days, 0 hours, 0 mins, 0 s)