📒 Oceananigans v0.14.1

v0.14.1 (2019-10-25)

Diff since v0.14.0

Merged pull requests:

• Bump version 0.14.1 (#507) (ali-ramadhan)
• Even better docs (#488) (glwagner)

🧮 Oceananigans v0.14.0

v0.14.0 (2019-10-24)

Diff since v0.13.0

Main features:

• Support for abstract operations to define new diagnostics and equations!
• Support for β planes.
• Can specify domain for grids.

Closed issues:

• Output example for NetCDF errors (#499)
• Behavior of data is inconsistent with behavior of Base.parent (#454)
• Clean up legacy constructors (#429)
• Diagnostic for computing horizontal averages of fluxes (#428)
• Grids should allow us to specify the domain (#413)
• β-plane and full Coriolis (#28)

Merged pull requests:

• Version 0.14.0 (#504) (glwagner)
• Fixes netcdf example (#503) (suyashbire1)
• Nuke BasicModel legacy constructor and fix `NonDimensionalMode… (#496) (ali-ramadhan)
• Allow users to specify the domain when creating a `RegularCartes… (#464) (ali-ramadhan)
• AbstractOperations for diagnostics (and beyond...) (#463) (glwagner)
• More coriolis options (#438) (suyashbire1)

🔃 Oceananigans v0.13.0

v0.13.0 (2019-10-23)

Diff since v0.12.0

Main feature:

• The k index (used for indexing the vertical level in 3D arrays) now increases as you go up so that k=1 corresponds to the bottom of the domain.

Closed issues:

• Round-off error in RegularCartesianGrid produces ranges of wrong length (#480)
• Rename Pearson vortex test to Taylor-Green vortex (#468)
• Vertical index k increases as z coordinate decreases (#90)

Merged pull requests:

• Bump version to 0.13.0 (#494) (ali-ramadhan)
• FINALLY reverse the k index (#462) (ali-ramadhan)

🐾 Oceananigans v0.12.0

v0.12.0 (2019-10-22)

Diff since v0.11.1

Main features:

• Support for specifying 0-2 active tracers and an arbitrary number of passive tracers.
• Documentation overhaul.
• Faster and better NetCDF output writer using NCDatasets.jl

Closed issues:

• LES regression test (#473)
• Each tracer should have its own diffusivity (#430)
• Documentation, examples/tutorials, and cleanup for JOSS paper (#332)
• Numerical methods that need to be documented (#327)
• Reference or explanation of DCT-FFT translation used for GPU Poisson solver method (#240)
• Equations in documentation are not dimensionally consistent (#222)
• Arbitrary tracer fields. (#25)

Merged pull requests:

• Add compatiblity entries to Project.toml (#492) (ali-ramadhan)
• Bump v0.12.0 (#486) (ali-ramadhan)
• Regression tests for models with LES closures (round 2) (#484) (glwagner)
• All the documentation! (#474) (ali-ramadhan)
• Arbitrary tracers (#452) (glwagner)
• Purpose new README layout (#437) (kamontat)
• Add table of contents to README (#435) (MohanSha)
• A fast netcdf output writer (#433) (suyashbire1)

🗜️ Oceananigans v0.11.1

v0.11.1 (2019-10-15)

Diff since v0.11.0

Main features:

• Stratified Couette flow verification experiment.
• Much improved examples.

Closed issues:

• Error when trying the hot bubble with GPU (#451)
• First example (hot bubble) fails when defining the model (#449)
• We should use CI to test that examples and verification tests run without errors (#415)
• Stratified plane Couette flow test (#310)

Merged pull requests:

• Use coverage job from earlier GitLab CI yaml (#472) (ali-ramadhan)
• Allow v1.3 GPU tests to fail on GitLab CI (#467) (ali-ramadhan)
• Update rising thermal bubble example in README (#450) (ali-ramadhan)
• Forcing API refactor (#444) (glwagner)
• Add contributing section to README and contributor's guide (#436) (ali-ramadhan)
• Get rid of docs replacement warnings on CPU (#426) (ali-ramadhan)
• Examples: more, better, tested (#425) (glwagner)
• Fix example test (#424) (ali-ramadhan)
• Wrapping up changes to buoyancy abstraction (#423) (glwagner)
• Search and replace testing for example scripts (#418) (ali-ramadhan)
• Stratified Couette flow verification (#381) (ali-ramadhan)

⚓ Oceananigans v0.11.0

v0.11.0 (2019-09-19)

Diff since v0.10.1

Main feature:

• Massive API cleanup and stabilization!

Closed issues:

• New abstraction for buoyancy and equation of state? (#403)
• Convenience 'parameters' field in Model for user-defined functions (#394)
• User-defined forcing function signature (#390)
• Model constructor not general enough + different model constructors for different use cases (#372)
• Too many exported names (#364)
• Use dictionaries rather than arrays to store output writers and diagnostics? (#362)
• Purpose of Diagnostic abstract type? (#361)
• Utilities for diagnosing diffusive CFL numbers. (#360)
• Use Literate.jl for examples? (#358)
• Generalize JLD2OutputWriter (#357)
• We should only import what we need from packages (#351)
• ardata and ardata_view (#313)
• The future of the Field abstraction (#298)
• Manual conversions in Grid constructor are not necessary (#285)
• Different model constructors for different common use cases (#258)
• Better organization of rotation-related and buoyancy-related constants and parameters (#217)
• Tidal sloshing forcing function (#212)
• Idealized nonlinear equation of state (#191)
• Revise physical constants (#190)
• Do not install/load CUDA packages if no GPU is detected. (#178)
• Physics tests with analytic solutions for the statistics (#159)
• Physics tests for channel or box models with analytic solutions (#158)
• Physics tests for doubly-periodic domains with analytic solutions (#157)
• Validation and performance benchmarks. (#136)
• Ability to turn off/on certain terms in the momentum equations. (#36)

Merged pull requests:

• Bump version to v0.11.0 (#422) (ali-ramadhan)
• New abstractions for buoyancy and rotation (#412) (glwagner)
• Put Diagnostics and OutputWriters into OrderedDicts, plus code f… (#411) (glwagner)
• Docstrings everywhere! (#410) (ali-ramadhan)
• More general and compact Field implementation (#409) (glwagner)
• Simplify AbstractModel, fixes show for RegularCartesianGrid (#408) (glwagner)
• Timeseries diagnostic and CFL utilities (#407) (glwagner)
• Pre-documentation cleanup (#406) (ali-ramadhan)
• Refactor boundary conditions container (#405) (glwagner)
• Update packages (#404) (ali-ramadhan)
• Use {Flux, Nothing} for default boundary condition type rather than {Flux, 0} (#402) (glwagner)
• Increase tolerance for tracer conservation test (#400) (ali-ramadhan)
• More well-defined export statement / user API (#399) (glwagner)
• Add warning if GPU model grid Nx, Ny are not multiple of 16 (#398) (ali-ramadhan)
• Update README: installation instructions and development team (#396) (ali-ramadhan)
• Parameters field in Model for user convenience (#395) (glwagner)
• Updates Julia requirements mentioned in README.md (#393) (navidcy)

🧭 Oceananigans v0.10.1

v0.10.1 (2019-09-09)

Diff since v0.10.0

Main feature:

• Bug fixes for diffusivisty halo regions and Value/Gradient boundary conditions to play nice with LES models.

Closed issues:

• Register Oceananigans v0.10.0 (#384)
• Better Value and Gradient boundary condition implementation (#371)

Merged pull requests:

• Bump version to 0.10.1 (#392) (ali-ramadhan)
• Use halo regions to enforce Value and Gradient boundary conditions (#389) (glwagner)
• Update CUDA packages (attempt 2) (#388) (ali-ramadhan)
• Revert "Update CUDA packages to get rid of CUDA errors on CPU and use CUDAapi.has_cuda()" (#387) (ali-ramadhan)
• Improve HorizontalAverage and time to write function (#386) (glwagner)
• Fill halo regions for diffusivity (#385) (glwagner)
• Verbose flag for checkpointer (#382) (ali-ramadhan)
• Clean up benchmark scripts (#380) (ali-ramadhan)

📼 Oceananigans v0.10.0

v0.10.0 (2019-08-29)

Diff since v0.9.5

Main feature:

• New and more correct turbulence closures.

Closed issues:

• Switch from HAVE_CUDA to new CUDAapi.has_cuda() (#376)
• Register Oceananigans v0.9.5 (#374)
• Register Oceananigans v0.9.4 (#373)
• Clearer Model instantiation error when HAVE_CUDA=false (#295)

Merged pull requests:

• New and more correct turbulence closures (#383) (glwagner)
• Fix diagnostics test problem size (#379) (ali-ramadhan)
• Update CUDA packages to get rid of CUDA errors on CPU and use CUDAapi.has_cuda() (#378) (ali-ramadhan)
• Checkpointer needs a previous field (#375) (ali-ramadhan)

🏺 Oceananigans v0.9.5

v0.9.5 (2019-08-28)

Diff since v0.9.4

Main feature:

• Horizontal average diagnostic and we kind of decided on what diagnostics should look like.

Closed issues:

• Fast vertical profile diagnostic (#186)
• Allow forcing to be an array. (#110)
• Use @propagate_inbounds (#58)

Merged pull requests:

• Fast on-the-fly vertical profiles (#352) (ali-ramadhan)

🛂 Oceananigans v0.9.4

v0.9.4 (2019-08-28)

Diff since v0.9.3

Main features:

• Model checkpointing via the Checkpointer output writer.
• Verbose and maximum filesize options for the JLD2 output writer.
• Much cleanup.

Closed issues:

• Upgrade TimeStepWizard to support model spinup? (#356)
• Register Oceananigans v0.9.3 (#345)
• Split JLD2 output files by size (#344)
• Possibly incorrect halo region filling and missing boundary condition (#328)
• Barebones checkpointing (#324)
• Halo regions filling functions are not general (#307)
• What is the purpose of the 'dim' property of RegularCartesianGrid? (#287)
• HDF5 and plotting utilities are heavy dependencies (#284)
• More tuples! (#262)
• Constant Smagorinsky halo size (#260)
• Types of kernel arguments do not seem to be inferred (#251)
• Eliminate dichotomy between GPU and CPU tests (#242)
• Deep convection example and golden master test should switch to BCs. (#220)
• Dynamically install packages like Plots.jl and ArgParse.jl for examples. (#195)
• Better user API for interacting with fields (#174)
• isbits Fields and FieldSets (#163)
• Change AB-2 parameter to 0.5 + χ to offer first order forward time stepping (#160)
• Elegant unpacking (#155)
• set!(u::Field{G}, f::Function) should use xC, yC, zC (or xF, yF, zF) depending on Field. (#23)
• Using Reqiures.jl for optional GPU usage (#14)

Merged pull requests:

• Benchmarking forcing functions (#370) (ali-ramadhan)
• Nuke broken tests (#368) (ali-ramadhan)
• Nuke sandbox (#367) (ali-ramadhan)
• Cleanup README and Documentation building (#359) (ali-ramadhan)
• Dirchlet and Neumann aliases for Value and Gradient boundary conditions (#355) (ali-ramadhan)
• Verbose and maximum filesize options for JLD2 output writer (#350) (ali-ramadhan)
• Clean trailing whitespace and convert tabs to spaces. (#349) (ali-ramadhan)
• Checkpointer revival (#326) (ali-ramadhan)