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 toarmi.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
andgetFileSHA1Hash
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 toCompareCases
CLI. PR#1842 - Exposing skip inspection options for
armi.init
anddb.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
andgetMcc3Id()
return IDs consistent with ENDF/B-VII.1. PR#1982- Moving
settingsValidation
fromoperators
tosettings
. PR#1895 - Allowing for unknown Flags when opening a DB. PR#1844
- Renaming
Reactor.moveList
toReactor.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 toTrue
. PR#1968 - Removing
Assembly.rotatePins
andBlock.rotatePins
. PreferAssembly.rotate
andBlock.rotate
. PR#1846 - Removing broken plot
buVsTime
. PR#1994 - Removing class
AssemblyList
andassemblyLists.py
. PR#1891 - Removing class
globalFluxInterface.DoseResultsMapper
. PR#1952 - Removing class
SmartList
. PR#1992 - Removing flags
CORE
andREACTOR
. 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 renamingnumProcessors
tonTasks
. 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
andgetOptimalAssemblyOrientation
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
forcold=True
. PR#1831 - Fixed error parsing command line integers in
ReportsEntryPoint
. PR#1824 - Fixed
PermissionError
when usingsyncDbAfterWrite
. PR#1857 - Fixed
MpiDirectoryChanger
. PR#1853 - Changed data type of
thKernel
setting frombool
tostr
inThermalHydraulicsPlugin
. 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