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@john-science john-science released this 17 Dec 23:03
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ARMI v0.5.0

Release Date: 2024-12-14

New Features

  • Supporting Python 3.12. PR#1813
  • Supporting Python 3.13. PR#1996
  • Adding data models for ex-core structures in ARMI. PR#1891
  • Opening some DBs without the App that created them. PR#1917
  • Adding support for ENDF/B-VII.1-based MC2-3 libraries. PR#1982
  • Adding setting mcnpLibraryVersion to chosen ENDF library for MCNP. PR#1989
  • Removing the tabulate dependency by ingesting it to armi.utils.tabulate. PR#1811
  • HexBlock.rotate updates the spatial locator for children of that block. PR#1943
  • Provide Block.getInputHeight for determining the height of a block from blueprints. PR#1927
  • Provide Parameter.hasCategory for quickly checking if a parameter is defined with a given category. PR#1899
  • Provide ParameterCollection.where for efficient iteration over parameters who's definition matches a given condition. PR#1899
  • Flags can now be defined with letters and numbers. PR#1966
  • Provide utilities for determining location of a rotated object in a hexagonal lattice (getIndexOfRotatedCell). PR#1846
  • Allow merging a component with zero area into another component. PR#1858
  • New plugin hook getAxialExpansionChanger to customize axial expansion. PR#1870
  • New plugin hook beforeReactorConstruction to process settings before reactor init. PR#1945
  • Improving performance in the lattice physics interface by not updating cross sections at everyNode during coupled calculations. PR#1963
  • Allow merging a component with zero area into another component. PR#1858
  • Updating copyOrWarn and getFileSHA1Hash to support directories. PR#1984
  • Improve efficiency of reaction rate calculations. PR#1887
  • Adding new options for simplifying 1D cross section modeling. PR#1949
  • Adding --skip-inspection flag to CompareCases CLI. PR#1842
  • Exposing skip inspection options for armi.init and db.loadOperator. PR#2005
  • Exposing detailedNDens to components. PR#1954
  • Adding a method getPinMgFluxes to get pin-wise multigroup fluxes from a Block. PR#1990

API Changes

  • nuclideBases.byMcc3ID and getMcc3Id() return IDs consistent with ENDF/B-VII.1. PR#1982
  • Moving settingsValidation from operators to settings. PR#1895
  • Allowing for unknown Flags when opening a DB. PR#1844
  • Renaming Reactor.moveList to Reactor.moves. PR#1881
  • Transposing pinMgFluxes parameters so that leading dimension is pin index. PR#1937
  • Block.getPinCoordinates returns an (N, 3) array, rather than a list of arrays. PR#1943
  • Alphabetizing Flags.toString() results. PR#1912
  • copyInterfaceInputs no longer requires a valid setting object. PR#1934
  • Changing synDbAfterWrite default to True. PR#1968
  • Removing Assembly.rotatePins and Block.rotatePins. Prefer Assembly.rotate and Block.rotate. PR#1846
  • Removing broken plot buVsTime. PR#1994
  • Removing class AssemblyList and assemblyLists.py. PR#1891
  • Removing class globalFluxInterface.DoseResultsMapper. PR#1952
  • Removing class SmartList. PR#1992
  • Removing flags CORE and REACTOR. PR#1835
  • Removing method Assembly.doubleResolution(). PR#1951
  • Removing method buildEqRingSchedule. PR#1928
  • Removing method prepSearch. PR#1845
  • Removing method SkippingXsGen_BuChangedLessThanTolerance. PR#1845
  • Removing setting autoGenerateBlockGrids. PR#1947
  • Removing setting mpiTasksPerNode and renaming numProcessors to nTasks. PR#1958
  • History Tracker: "detail assemblies" are now fuel and control assemblies. PR#1990
  • Removing Block.breakFuelComponentsIntoIndividuals(). PR#1990
  • Moving getPuMoles from blocks.py up to composites.py. PR#1990
  • Requiring buReducingAssemblyRotation and getOptimalAssemblyOrientation to have pin-level burnup. PR#2019

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed spatial grids of pins in Blocks on flats-up grids. PR#1947
  • Fixed DerivedShape.getArea for cold=True. PR#1831
  • Fixed error parsing command line integers in ReportsEntryPoint. PR#1824
  • Fixed PermissionError when using syncDbAfterWrite. PR#1857
  • Fixed MpiDirectoryChanger. PR#1853
  • Changed data type of thKernel setting from bool to str in ThermalHydraulicsPlugin. PR#1855
  • Update height of fluid components after axial expansion. PR#1828
  • Rotate hexagonal assembly patches correctly on facemap plots. PR#1883
  • Material theoretical density is serialized to and read from database. PR#1852
  • Removed broken and unused column in summarizeMaterialData. PR#1925
  • Fixed hex block rotation in plotBlockDiagram. PR#1926
  • Fixed edge case in assemblyBlueprint._checkParamConsistency(). PR#1928
  • Fixed wetted perimeter for hex inner ducts. PR#1985
  • Fixing number densities when custom isotopics and material properties are combined. PR#1822

Quality Work

  • Removing deprecated code axialUnitGrid. PR#1809
  • Refactoring axialExpansionChanger. PR#1861
  • Raising a ValueError when Database.load() fails. PR#1940
  • Making axial expansion-related classes more extensible. PR#1920