opm-simulators/doc/handbook/parameters.tex

\section{Specifying Parameters}
\label{sec:inputFiles}

As already mentioned in the previous section, \eWoms allows to specify
a number of parameters at run time. A description of these parameters
can usually obtained by passing the \texttt{--help} parameter to the
executable. The values used for these parameters are printed to the
terminal during the start-up of the simulation, e.g. the if the \texttt{lens\_immiscible}
simulation is run with the parameters \texttt{--end-time=30e3 --foo-param=123}, there will an output similar to
\begin{lstlisting}[style=Bash]
###########
# Parameters specified at run-time
###########
EndTime="30e3"
###########
# Parameters with use compile-time fallback values
###########
AmgCoarsenTarget="5000"
...
VtkWriteSaturations="1"
VtkWriteTemperature="1"
VtkWriteViscosities="0"
###########
# Parameters unknown to the simulation
###########
FooParam="123"
\end{lstlisting}

This can be directly copy-and-pasted into a file
(e.g. \texttt{myparams.ini}) and loaded by passing the
\texttt{--parameter-file=myparams.ini} parameter to the simulation the
next time it is run.

When you do simulations, always look for the paramters which are
unknown to the simulation, as this is \emph{very} useful for spotting
typos.

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