Recent changes and improvements

This page lists recent updates to the code, including important bug-fixes, and improved capabilities. It’s divided into:

• Features which are considered reasonably stable which are in BOUT-dev master
• Complete but experimental features which are in BOUT-dev next
• Features which are currently under development in their own separate branches

Features in BOUT-dev master branch

MUMPS interface for Laplacian inversion

Author: J.Omotani

Date:

Contact: john.omotani@york.ac.uk

Available as of commit:

Adds a laplace solver type “mumps”

PETSc interface for Laplacian inversion

Authors: J.Omotani, J.Buchanan

Date:

Contact: john.omotani@york.ac.uk

Available as of commit:

Physics-based preconditioning

Author: B.Dudson

Date:

Contact: benjamin.dudson@york.ac.uk

Available as of commit:

Features in BOUT-dev next branch

| Name    | Short Description |  Author(s) |   Commit   |
| ------- | ----------------- | ---------- |            |
| netcdf4 | NetCDF C API      | Ben Dudson | 2c8508cfad |

Feature branches under development

|    Name    |           Short Description          |  Author(s)  |
| ---------- |:------------------------------------:|:-----------:|
| python3    | Python 3 compatibility               | Ben Dudson  |
| runscripts | bout-config scripts for build config | Ben Dudson  |