direct solvers: exact solution??

Hi,
the HELP with FEFLOW says:

[i]The Direct solution strategy provides the advantage of an exact solution of the equation system without any residual error due to a solver iteration. This might come at the expense of longer runtimes and higher memory demand, depending on problem setup and available hardware.[/i]

But when I choose direct solvers, I got the following info:

                  No convergence in iteration loop at time: 1.000000e-03 with remaining error: 2.990310e+06 greater than  1.000000e-03

it is contradictory. Any comments and help are appreciated.

Quinn

There are both an outer and an inner iteration. The outer one is executed in all cases where you have a non-linear equation system to solve (unconfined aquifers, unsaturated simulation, density-dependent simulation, ...). The inner one is the solver iteration, and this one you do not have in case of a direct equation-system solver. The non-convergence message refers to the outer iteration that is controlled by the error criterion on the Numerical Parameters page of the Problem Settings dialog.