Release 24.11

24.11

• a new well-balanced method was added to the CTU PPM solver. This
  does the characteristic projection only on the perturbed pressure
  and then adds back in the hydrostatic pressure. It can be enabled
  via castro.ppm_well_balanced (#2945)

• fixed a bug in the div{U} calculation for artificial viscosity on
  symmetry boundaries (#2983)

• more development on 2D spherical geometry (#2973, #2975, #2981)

• updates to the massive star plotting scripts (#2979)

• add some new checks to prevent running unsupported combinations
  of solvers (#2978)

• documentation updates (#2977)

• flame_wave can now be run in 1D (#2976)

Release 24.10

24.10

• update initial model for subchandra when doing ASE NSE (#2970)

• massive_star plot tweaks (#2968)

• start of work on 2D spherical geometry (#2953, #2954, #2955,
  #2957, #2958, #2959, #2961, #2962, #2964, #2965)

• the gresho problem now takes Mach number instead of p0 as input
  (#2951, #2963)

• the PPM geometric source terms in the normal predictor are now
  traced to the interfaces (#2473)

• subch_planar now works in 1D (#2952)

• remove old get_const_grav() function (#2956)

• clang-tidy fixes to radiation (#2950)

Release 24.09

24.09

• Code clean-ups / clang-tidy (#2942, #2949)

• update the hse_convergence readme to reflect current convergence
  (#2946)

• update the bubble_convergence plotting script (#2947)

• new Frontier scaling numbers (#2948)

• more GPU error printing (#2944)

• science problem updates: flame_wave (#2943)

• documentation updates (#2939)

Release 24.08

24.08

• lazy QueueReduction has been enabled for the timing diagnostics
  (#2926)

• The job_info file output now correctly labels the compute time
  as GPU-hours instead of CPU-hours when running on GPUs (#2930)

• We can now output warnings when running on GPUs if you build
  with USE_GPU_PRINTF=TRUE(#2923, #2928)

• Code clean-ups / sync with Microphysics (#2900, #2901, #2905,
  #2906, #2909, #2912, #2919, #2922, #2932, #2933, #2936, #2938,
  #2940)

• The area weighting in the diagnostics in subch_planar was fixed
  (#2885)

• A script to produce a resolution study for the circular_det
  problem was added (#2857)

• science problem updates: xrb_layered (#2917), nova (#2913),
  wdmerger (#2907, #2918, #2931), Detonation (#2902)

• updated scaling results on Frontier (#2904, #2914, #2915)

• more exact Riemann solver clean-up (#2896, #2897, #2898)
  and clean-ups to the two shock solvers (#2895)

• fix issues with eigenvectors and clang-tidy in the MHD solver
  (#2880)

Release 24.07

24.07

• Reorganizing of the existing 2-shock and HLL Riemann solvers
  (#2887, #2888, #2889, #2890)

• Some clean-up, accuracy improvements, and optimization of the
  exact Riemann solver in preparation for coupling it to simulations
  (#2868, #2869, #2875)

• a new problem setup, subch_planar, for exploring He detonations
  (#2870, #2873, #2881, #2883, #2886, #2877, #2878)

• clean-up the computation of the shock variable for hybrid Riemann
  solves (#2865)

• code clean-ups (#2852, #2871, #2891)

• documentation improvements (#2843, #2879)

• add an EditorConfig (#2872)

• add the circular detonation problem to test multidimensional shock
  algorithms (#2858)

Release 24.06

24.06

• Doc updates (#2839, #2842, #2846, #2851, #2854, #2860)

• Sync problem and Castro runtime parameters to recent Microphysics
  changes (#2838, #2845, #2861)

• fix parsing in the check_params.py script (#2850)

• code cleaning (#2840, #2842, #2843)

Release 24.05

24.05

• Changed how the shock flag is computed. It is now computed once,
  at the start of a timestep. It also takes into account sources
  such that the pressure jump is only the pressure that is available
  to drive a shock. (#2726, #2728)

• Fixed a boundary condition check in gravity (#2833)

• Some coverity and clang-tidy fixes (#2810, #2811, #2835, #2831,
  #2832)

• Fix the wdmerger initialization when the two stars are overlapping
  (#2829)

• Fixed the Castro retry mechanism when amr.subcycling_mode = None
  (#2821, #2824, #2826)

• Added more amr parameters to the job_info file (#2828)

• Added OpenMP to the SDC burn loop (#2770)

Release 24.04

24.04

• Some clang-tidy fixes (#2779, #2780, #2781, #2784, #2786, #2787, #2790,
  #2791, #2792, #2793, #2797, #2798, #2799, #2800, #2801, #2804)

• Fix species initialization in the Detonation problem (#2806)
  and let it work with NSE (#2765)

• Sync up with AMReX changes (#2794)

• wdmerger now reports composition of initial stars (#2767)

• flame_wave now checks if the atm_delta is too small (#2782)
  and stores X(ash) (#2773)

• a bounds issue in the true SDC integration was fixed (#2775)

Release 24.03

24.03

• Documentation updates (#2742, #2752, #2753)

• Fix some code warnings (#2737)

• Fixed the exact Riemann solver compilation (#2745)

• Fix an issue with large kernel sizes with ROCm in the reduction code
  in the reactions (#2749)

Release 24.02

24.02

• Lot's of code fixes from coverity and clang-tidy (#2736, #2734,
  #2735, #2731, #2732, #2733)

• Fix the boundary condition logic at a wall for Detonation (#2722)

• Reimplement the shock detection algorithm to account for sources
  and do a better job in multidimensions (#2711, #2710, #2709, #2704)

• Start the process of moving the runtime parameters to structs (#2688)