Hello,
Strange, generally the diffusion linear system is easy to solve. You can try :
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ITERATIONS FOR DIFFUSION OF TRACERS : 200
but little chance. Another possibility is that you use SUPG for the advection of tracers :
TYPE OF ADVECTION : *;*;2 (third number equal to 2)
then the diffusion linear system is not symmetric and you must have :
SOLVER FOR DIFFUSION OF TRACERS : 3 or 7 (a solver that works for non symmetric matrices), or try another schme for advection: 3 instead of 2 (or 13 if you have tidal flats).
If nothing works look at the results before it crashes, is it a problem on one point ? is it near an obtuse angle in a triangle ? (with obtuse angles diffusion becomes anti-diffusion).
Yet another (unlikely) possibility: your problem is a small physical model and 1.E-2 is too high.
I hope something works in this mist...
Jean-Michel Hervouet