Release 3.0.0

Breaking/Parameter changes

• AppImage distribution of Linux binaries via GitHub Assets for piclasDSMC, piclasLeapfrogHDG, piclas2vtk and superB [546975d]
• Parameters for the linear temperature gradient have been chagend from TemperatureGradientStart and TemperatureGradientEnd to TempGradStart and TempGradEnd

Documentation/Tools/Regression testing

• Update environment modules script InstallHOPR.sh [e2022f5]
• Updated PETSc install script and fixed utilized PETSc version to avoid using unsupported versions [6e7b7ce,a7632428]
• Installation script for AOTUS within the environment modules [a6de162]
• Updated the plasma wave tutorial [34423be]
• Added weekly reggie that
  • downloads and compiles the hopr source code via LIBS_BUILD_HOPR=ON [fc5c599]
  • downloads and tests the hopr AppImage executable from GitHub [546975d]
• Added unit test that initializes the Mortar 1D interpolation operators and tests them [c75b4fa]
• Added new section to the developer guide Troubleshooting for quick reference when debugging very cumbersome bugs, see Section Troubleshooting [fe37889]
• Updated environment modules to GCC 13.1.0 + OpenMPI 4.1.5 + HDF5 1.14.0 + PETSc 3.19.3 + HOPR [86a3879]
• Updated hopr version tag for installation or download to v1.2.0 [c3346b5]
• Gitlab CI: Fixed duplicate template definition in .gitlab-ci.yml, download of reggie as a separate job, removed old if clause for DO_NIGHTLY, added a DSMC build job [1db1c3e]

Features

• Added reflective BCs to BPO (boundary particle output) for measuring the impacts of specific species IDs on specific BC IDs, see Section Surface Variables in the user guide [cf6ebf8]
• Species-specific time step for PIC-MCC, see Section Variable Time Step in the user guide [ec56fb8]
• Output of electric displacement current for each BC to .csv, see Section Field Solver and PIC in the user guide [a5ededc]
• Floating Boundary Condition (FPC) for the HDG solver to models perfectly conducting surfaces, see Section Floating boundary condition (FPC) in the user guide [0b1e3ba]
• Electric Potential Condition (EPC) for the HDG solver that models resistive surfaces, see Section Electric potential condition (EPC) in the user guide [88a3522]
• Bias voltage model for PIC Poisson HDG boundaries (AC or DC), see Section Boundary Conditions - Field Solver in the user guide [1290e40]
• Control of AC boundary condition based on power input, see Section Boundary Conditions - Field Solver in the user guide [9860da2]
• Added PIC analysis output to measure the percentage of all elements that fulfill the Debye length and time step criteria, see Section Element-constant field/particle properties in the user guide [3961c97]
• Mixing planes for rotational periodic BCs, allowing to connect non-conformal meshes in combination with rotationally periodic BCs [fea50b3]

Improvements

• Output ETA (status line) during dt_analyze but with new line instead of carriage return [309d2df]
• Removed old vMPF routines (doParticleMerge), ExcludeRegion and AuxBC [9f550e0]
• Added sanity check in WriteArrayToHDF5() to avoid integer overflows in case of KIND=4 [9d011d3]
• Updated HOPR library version in CMake compilation to v1.1.1 [0032eb3]
• Surface analyze output: Avoid output of zero arrays for Porous BC sensor [f438f0d]
• Restructured particle mesh and normal mesh to allow compilation of certain element/node containers when PARTICLES=OFF is used [b981c48]
• Added a cycle statement in loop for symmetry BC sides in TriaTracking in case of 2D simulations [ae216e6]
• Multi-core operations on shared memory (SHM) arrays should never overlap + moved some CN-local mapping arrays into SHM [d7654da]
• Added shared memory window name, calling file and line number to DEBUG_MEMORY compile option [8a912f2]

Fixes

• Fixes for photon emission and SF adaptive output to std.out [68fad44]
• Fixed inquiry when compiling on HLRS: always use fully qualified domain name (FQDN) [77beb27]
• Fixed bug in REAL format file version [2b4ae0d]
• Changed PETSc error handling to work with v3.18 [18ff4c0]
• CORE_SPLIT gives the number of cores per (virtual) node [3602178]
• Only deallocate PartIntGlob if it was allocated [58eb787]
• Fixed bug in SurfFlux mass flow output, when using a Part-AnalyzeStep [be83024,e275b6d2]
• Fixed bug in CreateParticle routine [d418a2f]
• Fixed MPI=OFF compilation for HDG and removed warnings [5632b3c]
• Remove large unwanted file [b14d943]
• Fixed bug in index usage for output of electric potential via "boundary field output" (BFO) on specific BCs over time to FieldAnalyze.csv [fc239c2]
• Fix in cmake for compilation with externally built HDF5 1.14.0 [20ce793]
• Bugfix and extension of temperature gradient calculation [713f044]
• Adaptive Surface Flux BCs: corrected the average over BC feature and improved the treatment of the Type=4 surface flux BC during init, restart and load balance [012e2bf]
• Resolved ASSOCIATE construct that might redefine the input variable [433cc92]
• Adjust MERGE(PRESENT) for GCC13.1+ [ffd30e9]
• Fixed electron velocity emission angle for photon ionization in the volume [4495983]
• Added missing LIBS_ variables to the userblock via the configuration.cmake file output in cmake [a357a1c]
• Fixed the cell volume weighted mean (CVWM) deposition method in combination with periodic BCs [2334dad]