CHANGELOG

Changelog

This changelog is focused on changes related to our tagged releases. The intent is to document all notable changes, with most recent listed first.

Repository hosting shifted from bitbucket to github. The repository is now located at: https://github.com/gdtk-uq/gdtk

Default install location $HOME/dgdinst –> $HOME/gdtkinst
Specification of cfl_schedule in transient code is now of the form:
```
  config.cfl_schedule = {{0.0,0.5}, {0.5e-3,1.0}, {2.0e-3,10.0}}
```
In each pair, the first number is time and the second number is CFL value.
For specialist post-processing, class BlockFlow renamed to FluidBlockLite to better represent its intent. FluidBlockLite is used in post-processing to read, interact, manipulate fluid data at a block level. The “lite” refers to the fact that it is not a full-blown FluidBlock object as implemented in the code internals.
prep-gas now selects the CompositeGas when requesting a thermally perfect gas model. This uses the the unified gas model machinery built in 2021, and begins the deprecation of the special-purpose implementations.
Lua version embedded in code upgraded: 5.1.4 –> 5.4.3

Clean up on MPI exit paths to avoid hanging processes when the gas dynamics encounters adverse situations.
Fixed bug in computation of transport properties and update of sound speed at a boundary interface for the special user-defined boundary interface effect.

Control point form as option for algebraic grid generation on structured grids See technical note: https://gdtk.uqcloud.net/docs/eilmer/technical-notes/control-point-grid-gen/
Conical inflow as option to supersonic inflow, constant flux and shock-fitting boundary conditions. See example in: examples/eilmer/2D/nozzle-conical-ideal
GridArray class added to separate the role of grid division out from FBArray.
FBArray can now be constructed from an array of grid objects. See example: examples/eilmer/2D/shear-layer-periodic/psl-gridArray.lua
An option to compute mixture averaged diffusion coefficients from the binary diffusion coefficients of all interacting pairs in the mixture.
A more robust calculation of wall distances for use in the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model.

e4monitor program now has option to run in foreground mode to start a simulation:

  $ e4monitor --job=cone20 --startup=1 --period=1 --command="mpirun -np 8 --oversubscribe e4mpi --run --job=cone20"

CubePatch geometry object. CubePatch is like SpherePatch but produces a flat (square) surface with edge length 2a.
Meta-data at Eilmer start-up now include more information: Revision-date, Build-date and Profiling.
RuledSurface geometry object.