Updated release notes for 0.4.2.

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Paul Romano 2012-07-01 17:15:35 -04:00
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Release Notes for OpenMC 0.4.2
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.. note::
These release notes are for an upcoming release of OpenMC and are still
subject to change.
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System Requirements
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New Features
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- Ability to specify void materials.
- Option to not reduce tallies across processors at end of each batch.
- Uniform fission site method for reducing variance on local tallies.
- Reading/writing binary source files.
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- Estimator for diffusion coefficient.
- Ability to specify 'point' source type.
- Ability to change random number seed.
- User's can now specify units='sum' on a <density> tag. This tells the code
that the total material density is the sum of the atom fractions listed for
each nuclide on the material.
- Users can now specify units='sum' on a <density> tag. This tells the code that
the total material density is the sum of the atom fractions listed for each
nuclide on the material.
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Bug Fixes
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- a27f8f_: Fixed runtime error bug when using Intel compiler with DEBUG on.
- afe121_: Fixed minor bug in fission bank algorithms.
- e0968e_: Force re-evaluation of cross-sections when each particle is born.
- 298db8_: Fixed bug in surface currents when using energy-in filter.
- 2f3bbe_: Fixed subtle bug in S(a,b) cross section calculation.
- 671f30_: Fixed surface currents on mesh not encompassing geometry.
- b2c40e_: Fixed bug in incoming energy filter for track-length tallies.
- 5524fd_: Mesh filter now works with track-length tallies.
- d050c7_: Added Bessel's correction to make estimate of variance unbiased.
- 2a5b9c_: Fixed regression in plotting.
.. _a27f8f: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/commit/a27f8f
.. _afe121: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/commit/afe121
.. _e0968e: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/commit/e0968e
.. _298db8: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/commit/298db8
.. _2f3bbe: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/commit/2f3bbe
.. _671f30: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/commit/671f30
.. _b2c40e: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/commit/b2c40e
.. _5524fd: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/commit/5524fd