!
! This file is part of SACAMOS, State of the Art CAble MOdels for Spice. 
! It was developed by the University of Nottingham and the Netherlands Aerospace 
! Centre (NLR) for ESA under contract number 4000112765/14/NL/HK.
! 
! Copyright (C) 2016-2018 University of Nottingham
! 
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! terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software 
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! version.
! 
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! 
! SACAMOS uses the EISPACK library (in /SRC/EISPACK). EISPACK is subject to 
! the GNU Lesser General Public License. A copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 
! License version can be found in the file GNU_LGPL in the root of EISPACK 
! (/SRC/EISPACK ) or at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
! 
! The University of Nottingham can be contacted at: ggiemr@nottingham.ac.uk
!
!
! File Contents:
! SUBROUTINE create_new_node
!
! NAME
!     create_new_node
!
! AUTHORS
!     Chris Smartt
!
! DESCRIPTION
!     Set the specified node to a new node number and update the next free node number
!
!     INPUTS REQUIRED
!     1. node to set
!     2. next_free_node
!
!     OUTPUTS
!     1. node to set is set to the next_free_node
!     2. next_free_node is increased by one
!     
! COMMENTS
!     
!     
!
! HISTORY
!
!     started 15/6/2016
!     
!
  SUBROUTINE create_new_node(node_to_set,next_free_node)

USE type_specifications

IMPLICIT NONE

! variables passed to the subroutine

integer,intent(OUT)   :: node_to_set
integer,intent(INOUT) :: next_free_node

! local variables

! START

  node_to_set=next_free_node
  next_free_node=next_free_node+1
  
  RETURN

END SUBROUTINE create_new_node