version 0.18.0
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Added a lubrication correction offset to allow an option for keeping particles clear of plane walls. See https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inputs/colloid.html
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Added options for arranging 'first touch' on allocation of memory for LB data and field componenents. See https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inputs/parallel.html
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Various minor code improvements.
version 0.17.2
- Bug fix (issue #204) prevent crashes with s7_anchoring related to proximity of wall/colloid or colloid/colloid. Advice added to documentation on avoiding such close approaches.
version 0.17.1
- Bug fix (issue #197). The liquid crystal reduced field strength was reported incorrectly in the output (always zero). Thanks to Oliver H. for spotting.
version 0.17.0
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add liquid crystal anchoring "fd_gradient_calculation s7_anchoring"
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this is a replcement for "3d_7pt_fluid" and does a slightly better job at the edges and corners by using a consistent surface normal. The anchoring properties are now specifed in a slightly different way.
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For walls, see https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inputs/walls.html
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For colloids, see https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inputs/colloid.html
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The existing fd_gradient_calculation 3d_7pt_solid is retained, and existing input keys for anchoring will be recognised.
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add option for rectilinear grid format vtk output "extract -l"
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add option for 2d random nematic "lc_q_initialisation random_xy"
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A functional AMD GPU version is now available using HIP.
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Various minor improvements
version 0.16.1
- And get the version number right!
version 0.16.0
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Improved host halo swaps are available. The implementation of the reduced distribution halo has been replaced with one that will work in all circumstances for a single distribution. See https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inputs/index.html Parallelism for details. No user action is required if you are not interested.
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Reinstated the boundary (wall) - colloid soft sphere potential. See https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inputs/colloid.html Thanks to Rishish Mishra for spotting this problem.
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Various minor updates.
version 0.15.0
- Active stress implementation is updated to conform to the documented case; active emulsion stress is available.
- Add ability to rotate BPI and BPII liquid crystal initial conditions Thanks to Oliver H. for this. See Section 3 of web documentation.
- A diagnostic computation and output of the force breakdown on each colloid has been added. This is currently via a static switch in stats_colloid_force_split.c
- An option for a "lap timer" is now provided.
- Some simple open boundary conditions for fluid and binary composition are available. See the "Open boundaries" section at https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/
- Some refactoring of the lattice Boltzmann basis information has been performed in order to be able to move to a more flexible approach. This should have no practical impact at present.
version 0.14.0
- Add a ternary free energy. Thanks to Shan Chen and Sergios Granados Leyva.
- See https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inputs/fe.html
- Added various initial ternary configurations.
- Allowed uniform wetting from input via free energy parameters.
- Added various porous media style initialisations from input; input handling has changed slightly.
- Updated the util/capillary.c code to use the standard map structure, and standard output functionality.
- Add back an operational surfactant free energy. There is no dynamics available yet.
- Add unit tests for the the same.
- Add a description of how to add a free energy to free_energy.h
- Unified CPU/GPU short regression tests.
- Compilation of target HIP updated for AMD platform. See config/unix-hpcc.mk.
version 0.13.0
- Add report on compiler and start/end times.
- Add report on key/value pairs which appear in input but are not used at end of execution.
- Added compensated sums for binary order parameter sum statistic to improve robustness of result to round-off. Additional compensation in time evolution for Cahn-Hilliard update.
- Add pair_ss_cut_ij interaction: a cut-and-shoft soft sphere potential with pair-dependent parameters. Thanks to Qi Kai.
- Added subgrid offset parameter; this replaces ah in the computation of the drag force (typically aL >> ah).
version 0.12.0
- Allow user to specify a linear combination of slip and no-slip for plane walls. This was originally implementated by Katrin Wolff when at Edinburgh, and has been resurrected with the help of Ryan Keogh and Tyler Shendruk. See https://ludwig.epcc.ed.ac.uk/inputs/walls.html
- Various minor code quality improvements
- Extended target abstraction layer to include HIP (only tested via HIP_PLATFORM_NVCC so far). Thanks to Nikola Vasilev for this.
- Various minor code quality improvements
version 0.11.0
- Add external chemical potential gradient in Cahn Hilliard for free energy symmetric. Thanks to Jurij Sablic ([email protected]).
- Add Arrhenius viscosity model for compositional order parameter
- Add the ability to run both subgrid and fully resolved particles at the same time. Thanks to Qi Kai ([email protected]) for this.
- Various code quality updates
version 0.10.0
- Added an option to fix colloid position or velocity on a per-direction basis, e.g. colloid_isfixedrxyz 1_1_0 allows movement in z-direction only. Any value is overridden by colloid_isfixedr. An analogous option colloid_isfixedvxyz is available.
- Added target thread model information to output
- Refactored d_ij and e_ijk from char to int8_t to avoid potential pitfalls with default unsigned char.
version 0.9.3
- Allow stress relaxation option in bare liquid crystal free energy
version 0.9.2
- Moved input section in porous media docs to online version only
version 0.9.1
- Disallow porous media files using "status_with_h" as erroneous. Use "status_with_c_h" instead.
- Bug fix: allow colloid wetting by default.
version 0.9.0
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The build process has changed to try to move all the configuration to the config.mk file. Please see updated examples in the ./config directory. The configs are either serial or parallel (not both). The build process should now be from the top level and is via "make && make test". Serial builds should do "make serial" first.
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You should be able to type "make" in any directory and the local default target will be built.
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Executables in utils are built via "make" to be consistent with other source directories
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Added input colloid_rebuild_freq (with default 1) to allow discrete rebuild to be done less often than every time step
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Regression tests have been re-organised into different directories and are run on a per-directory basis (see tests/Makefile)
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The default test is regression/d3q19-short
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A link to new build and test instructions has been made available from the README
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Added travis .travis.yml and relevant config file
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Fixed gcc -Wformat-overflow and a number of other warnings
version 0.8.16
- add option for uniform composition via "phi_initialisation uniform"
- fix composition replacement bug (was dependent on charge psi)
version 0.8.15
- fix "weight = 0" problem in replacement of fluid for binary order parameter and add test (issue 30)
version 0.8.14
- add html placeholder
version 0.8.13
- add option for density output via "rho" commands in input
version 0.8.12
- allow force divergence method to see porous media
version 0.8.11
- updated util/length_from_sk.c to take double input to be consistent with extract output
version 0.8.10
- Add vtk format output for composition, velocity, in extract; automatically detect input format
- Replace dubious assertion in stats_symmetric_length()
version 0.8.09
- Avoid zero-sized allocations in wall.c
version 0.8.08
- Repaired util/colloid_init.c
- Separate vtk scalar order / director / biaxial order files
version 0.8.07
- Updated the extract program to include vtk headers
- Added some Bond number test examples regression/d3q19/serial-bond-c01.inp
Version 0.8.05
- Added the option to specify fixed liquid crystal anchoring orientation from the input.
Version 0.8.04
- Fixed bug in device halo swap.
Version 0.8.0
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The constraint that the number of MPI tasks divide exactly the system size in each direction has been relaxed. Logically rectangular, but uneven decompositions are computed automatically if required.
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Output format in parallel. Files for a given I/O group now appear with data in a format which is independent of parallel decomposition. This means an 'extract' step is no longer required. It also means files generated with previous versions will no longer work as input.
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Different collision relaxation time schemes are now available by using the 'lb_relaxation_scheme' input either ('bgk', 'trt', or 'm10'). The default is unchanged ('m10').
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An option for a 'split' treatment of symmetric and antisymmetric stress arising from the thermodynamic sector has been introduced. This is via the input key 'fe_use_stress_relaxation yes'. This introduces the symmetric part of the stress as a relaxation in the collision, while the anti-symmetric part is via the force (via divergence). The default is still to treat the whole stress via the divergence.
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A 'second active stress' is now available for active liquid crystals.