OpenMC 0.13.2
This release of OpenMC includes several bug fixes, performance improvements for complex geometries and depletion simulations, and other general enhancements. Notably, a capability has been added to compute the photon spectra from decay of unstable nuclides. Alongside that, a new openmc.config configuration variable has been introduced that allows easier configuration of data sources. Additionally, users can now perform cell or material rejection when sampling external source distributions.
Compatability Notes and Deprecations
- If you are building against libMesh for unstructured mesh tally support, version 1.6 or higher is now required.
- The
openmc.stats.Muirclass has been replaced by aopenmc.stats.muirfunction that returns an instance ofopenmc.stats.Normal.
New Features
- The
openmc.Material.get_nuclide_atom_densitiesmethod now takes an optionalnuclideargument. - Functions/methods in the
openmc.depletemodule now accept times in Julian years ('a'). - The
openmc.Universe.plotmethod now allows a pre-existing axes object to be passed in. - Performance optimization for geometries with many complex regions.
- Performance optimization for depletion by avoiding deepcopies and caching reaction rates.
- The
openmc.RegularMeshclass now has afrom_domainclassmethod. - The
openmc.CylindricalMeshclass now has afrom_domainclassmethod. - Improved method to condense diffusion coefficients from the
openmc.mgxsmodule. - A new :data:
openmc.configconfiguration variable has been introduced that allows data sources to be specified at runtime or via environment variables. - The
openmc.EnergyFunctionFilterclass now supports multiple interpolation schemes, not just linear-linear interpolation. - The
openmc.DAGMCUniverseclass now hasmaterial_names,n_cells, andn_surfacesattributes. - A new
openmc.data.decay_photon_energyfunction has been added that returns the energy spectrum of photons emitted from the decay of an unstable nuclide. - The
openmc.Materialclass also has a newdecay_photon_energyattribute that gives the decay photon energy spectrum from the material based on its constituent nuclides. - The
openmc.deplete.StepResultnow has aget_materialmethod. - The
openmc.Sourceclass now takes adomainsargument that specifies a list of cells, materials, or universes that is used to reject source sites (i.e., if the sampled sites are not within the specified domain, they are rejected).
Bug Fixes
- Delay call to Tally::set_strides
- Fix reading reference direction from XML for angular distributions
- Fix erroneous behavior in Material.add_components
- Fix reading thermal elastic data from ACE
- Fix reading source file with time attribute
- Fix conversion of multiple thermal scattering data files from ACE
- Fix reading values from wwinp file
- Handle possibility of .ppm file in Universe.plot
- Update volume calc types to mitigate overflow issues