Upgrades/Release Notes

Release Notes for GASP v5.0.1

Date of Release: August 2009

New Features Added

• Unstructured changes
  • (1) Re-write of grid import in order to reduce memory usage
  • (2) Pt2Pt ZBs now sorted and placed in pt2pt folders
  • (3) True boundary value output supported (flag in grid range)
  • (4) Import grids are now check for face ordering consistency and corrected if needed.
  • (5) Changed call to LoadFaceBounIndex in order to reduce memory for output/vtk
  • (6) Added grid import option for VGrid
  • (7) Added more variables to the unstructured output
• Added x0,y0 loc for scalarBar, text, and logo widgets
• Added a new dt limiting algorithm
• Pop-up warning if user tries to cut zone nodes
• Updated dialog box in dbasemgr to inform how to properly copy and paste a specie
• Added useBCNames flag for cgnsGrid import. Note that GridPro does not set the name on a BC for cgns, so we must set the BC SurfGroupNode based upon unique bcType, not unique name. Added flag to dialog as well
• Added special bc for setting bcVel=0 for fixed frame wall

Bug Fixes

• In limiting Spalart-Allmaras for unstructured, a limiting value was not defined.
• Pt2Pt surfaces drop into File Output corrected.
• Rendering of unstructured surfaces in File Output corrected.
• Ivac (wall accuracy) set to first order in solver for unstructured (since only 1 ghost cell is used)
• Remove the reading of zipper nodes in Sequence (a legacy conversion from 4.3, which did not work correctly). This prevents a crash, when converting a 4.3 deck which contained zipper grids.
• Read in 4.3 PlotNode's and then discard. This prevents an error of unrecognized node type, when 4.3 deck contains plots.
• Integrated quantites would unset itself (logic error in code).
• Correction to FV-UNS ASCII grid reader (applies to version 2.3 and 2.4)
• Updated the check for changes with gauge pressure (checks against an old value since changing the unit system would pop up a warning before).
• Changing to the Weiss-Smith flux from precondition Roe caused an error.
• Fix made for ENO and axi-symmetric
• Fixed bug in number of zones-per-proc decomp feature
• Fixed bug to new bc list update
• Zones without viscous walls were not computing the delta correction term in DES.
• Fixed bc list updates for cases with more than 1 physMod type and for when you add surfaces to empty bc folder
• Fixed transform grids dialog close x lock up issue
• Exiting GUI bugs were fixed
• Changed how Gordon/McBride curve fit range checking was done. Before the temperature was changed globally. This was changed to be local instead.
• Added alpha parameter to surfaces display in GUI
• Partial clean-up of line plotting. Restore functionality, and clean up presentation
• Bug fixed for reading basic ASIColor (not ASIColorMKF)
• Pointwise fix for solid physMods. Changing a zone over to solid physMod needed to have soln[SENSITIVITY] set to NULL
• MPI_Comm_free issue with OpenMPI for multiple sweeps
• Removed misc memory leaks for flow solver
• Bug fix for ASINode. FindNextGlobalNodeIsA caused a crash when changing name of a speciesNode
• Changed default movie file extension from mpg to avi
• Remove error message about unimplemented PopFront. This only triggered in the database manager, and removed it to avoid customer confusion.
• There are issues with reading in vGrid files in binary format due to big and little endian. Older g77 compilers do not have easy support for convert, so compile with _G77_ FFLAG
• Added a dialog title for error handling in run definition
• Dbasemgr bug fixes (throw not being handled properly)
• Slash direction corrected for hostID file on windows platform
• Selection of run defn in GUI updated with better logic
• Make vector's scale to proper length upon initialization
• Chimera fixes (mostly to override feature).
• Changed the vector's to render solid vectors, using vtkVectorSource, instead of vtkGlyph2D
• Changed updated dq for pressure. Before, only limited to 50% change toward zero. Now limited in both directions.
• If an output node was empty but set to integrated quantities, it would crash.
• Bug fix concerning output settings (output type) changing due to grid range related issue.
• Unstructured bug fix for importing grids. Surface info not set fully which would cause problems if trying to decomp and use vtk in initial GUI session.
• Corrected an update issue with the number of partitions reported in the decomposition tab
• Updated entropy output to use local gamma value and not freestream
• Bug fix for qSpec xml output. The local value was not being written to file for some values (rho, tvib). Bug only when input deck not metric.
• F1 output bug fixed (it was not being computed). DES/SST output bug fix as well (order of metrics corrected)
• Fixed error in cutting certain nodes due to gridRange tied in two different ways
• Memory leak fixes and disable cut/copy/paste for vtkNodes
• Fixed bugs in blanking when incrementing i,j,k values for vtkNodes
• Updated keyFrame red coloring stuff. Small fix/change to new size decomp method. Small bug fix to hole cutting algorithm
• Minor fixes to view so that zone and surface lists will update better and not flash
• Fixed cut holes bug for new cutGroup numbering. New folders that are made into cut groups would not work until saved.
• Updated the about box for new logos
• Bug in saving USER_DEFINED flag for autoScaleNode scalar ranges
• Potential division by zero fix for SST model. Memory bug fix for unstructured with SST model.
• Bug fixes to cutHolesView for override cutting and to speed up selectL update
• Split KeyFrame/Mergeable base classes to base class without KeyFrame/Merge, and a derived class which contains above. In this way we can remove the overhead of KeyFrame/Merge from data structures that don't require it. In particular, this merge is an attempt to reduce memory requirements. Also add SOLVER_ONLY directives to remove some signals and overhead therein from solver.
• Bug fix for ReReadCellType (using v5 to re-read a v4.3 cell type in grid file would fail)
• Fixed updates for variable list filters when gridRange type changes
• Bug fix on save as with database gui
• Corrected some loopholes in the CGNS unstructured reader (if bc info not given, it would fail before)
• Prevent a crash after deleting a selected movie keyframe

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