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I.6.10 Predefined criteria

Method “calcPredefinedCriterion” allows to calculate a pre-defined criterion “hard-coded” in C++. The parameters of the method are:

The method returns an Array of “OutputValues” similar to the Array of input arguments.

Note that the arguments that are passed by reference in function calcPredefinedCriterion can be modified in the predefined criterion. Each predefined criterion should be documented, and the possible side effects of the method should be clearly explained.

Some advantages of using predefined criteria are listed below:

Of course, the adoption of pre-defined criteria has also some disadvantages:

So far, only a limited number of predefined criteria have been included in FeResPost. They are presented in Appendix X.D.