OpenMC 0.13.0
This release of OpenMC includes several noteworthy and unique features. Most importantly, mesh-based weight windows have been added and work with all supported mesh types (regular, rectilinear, cylindrical, spherical, and unstructured). Other additions include torus surfaces, an ability to place CAD-based geometries in universes, a feature to export/import physical properties, and a filter for particle time.
There is one breaking changing in the Python API. The openmc.deplete.Operator
class used to accept Geometry
and Settings
objects as its first two arguments; users now need to pass a Model
class instead.
The minimum supported Python version is now 3.6.
New Features
- Variance reduction using mesh-based weight windows is now possible with the
WeightWindows
class. - Users can now model axis-aligned tori using the
XTorus
,YTorus
, andZTorus
classes. - DAGMC CAD-based geometries can now be placed in a universe using
DAGMCUniverse
, allowing users to combine CSG and CAD-based geometry in a single model. - The C/C++ API has two new functions
openmc_properties_export
andopenmc_properties_import
with corresponding Python API bindings,openmc.lib.export_properties
andopenmc.lib.import_properties
. These functions allow physical properties (temperatures, densities, material compositions) to be written to an HDF5 file and re-used for subsequent simulations. - A new
openmc.stats.PowerLaw
univariate distribution - The capabilities of the
Model
class have been substantially expanded (e.g., theModel.deplete
,Model.plot_geometry
, andModel.rotate_cells
methods). - A new
TimeFilter
class that allows tallies to be filtered by the particle's time, which is now tracked. - The
Source
class now allows you to specify a time distribution. - The new
CylindricalMesh
andSphericalMesh
classes can be used for mesh tallies over cylidrical and spherical meshes, respectively. - Geometry plotting, which used to produce the files in the unusual .ppm format, now produces .png files by default.
Bug Fixes
- Fix for shared fission bank memory errors
- Make sure properties export only happens from root process
- Fix pathlib use error in openmc-ace-to-hdf5
- Fix DAGMC and libMesh variable in CMake config
- Fix bug associated with volume calc in MG mode
- Add missing Settings.write_initial_source property
- Bug fixes for specifying Materials.cross_sections
- Removing Legendre filter in diffusion coefficient results
- Ensure particles lost during event_calculate_xs are terminated
- Fixed parsing of xsdir entries with a continuation line
- openmc.RegularMesh attribute consistency
- Ensure secondary particles below energy cutoff are not created
- Allow compilation with g++ 11
- Depletion-related bug fixes
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Fixes for various bugs
- Reset triggers in openmc_reset
Contributors
This release contains new contributions from the following people: