SU2 version 8.5.0 "Harrier"

Version 8.5.0 has significant multi-grid improvements, a new grey area mitigation strategy for DES simulations, fully functional thermo-elasticity coupling, and many other improvements, small fixes, performance improvements, and updates of dependencies.

What's Changed

🚀 Experimental Features

• MSW"+" and vectorization by @pcarruscag in #2727
• option to duplicate markers, to simplify thermoelastic simulations by @pcarruscag in #2731
• Improved initial guess for Newton solver in data-driven fluid model by @EvertBunschoten in #2734
• Adjoint thermo elasticity by @pcarruscag in #2736
• Update mlpcpp by @EvertBunschoten in #2746
• Engine mass-flow rate coupling for zero-thrust simulation by @m-minervino in #2753
• Upgrade to PaStiX version 6 by @pcarruscag in #2759
• Feature: Add Iteration Wall-Clock Timing (ITER_TIME) by @Soumyadipta-Banerjee in #2774
• Use better compiler optimization options by default by @pcarruscag in #2779
• Optimization of multigrid settings by @bigfooted in #2772
• Use FGCRODR instead of GMRES for "Newton-Krylov" adjoint by @pcarruscag in #2782
• Stochastic Backscatter Model for Grey Area Mitigation in Hybrid RANS-LES Simulations by @AngPass in #2572
• Option to use level scheduling for OMP parallelization of ILU by @pcarruscag in #2793

💊 Bug Fixes

• fix eigen direct download url by @pcarruscag in #2708
• Flame initialization allowed when restarting by @bigfooted in #2710
• Fix MSW scheme with MUSCL by @pcarruscag in #2711
• fix for MUSCL ramp start iteration > 0 by @pcarruscag in #2714
• fix symmetry shared node by @bigfooted in #2719
• Fix use of DESTDIR with PREFIX in meson by @ThmsP in #2726
• Fixing relaxation factor for conserved turbulent variables in SST model by @C-Perron in #2728
• Iterate both heat and FEA solvers for thermoelastic simulations by @pcarruscag in #2732
• Fix: patch bundled Boost hash.hpp for C++17 std::unary_function removal by @Sahilll10 in #2750
• Fix multigrid agglomeration by @bigfooted in #2712
• Fix flame initialization by @bigfooted in #2784
• Fix: Build ADT for probes only if necessary by @pcarruscag in #2794
• Fix OMP issues in SBS by @pcarruscag in #2795

🔧 Maintenance

• New tutorial - python wrapper and User Defined Functions by @bigfooted in #2695
• Fix cli11 cstdint by @kanakaero in #2735
• Fix/replace optparse with argparse by @riddhi1228 in #2758
• Fix CUSTOM_OBJFUNC support in Python layer by @riddhi1228 in #2756
• fix(SU2_PY): replace Python 2 string.join() with str.join() in polarSweepLib.py by @riddhi1228 in #2760
• Simplify OMP min/max reductions, cleanup raw indexing into CSysVector by @pcarruscag in #2770
• upgrade ubuntu in docker containers by @pcarruscag in #2773
• Cleanup elasticity numerics by @pcarruscag in #2776
• omp instead of sequential release binaries by @pcarruscag in #2777
• Fix unsteady testcase configs and add regression tests by @Sahilll10 in #2755
• Update CoolProp to version 7.2.0 by @pcarruscag in #2780
• Make the Tracy integration functional by @pcarruscag in #2785
• Don't store/use secondary partial derivatives when it's not necessary by @pcarruscag in #2789
• Avoid communicating su2double/passivedouble when passivedouble/su2mixedfloat are enough by @pcarruscag in #2788
• Use Classical Gram–Schmidt twice instead of Modified G-S with conditional re-orthogonalization. by @pcarruscag in #2791
• fix arm builds for CI/CD by @pcarruscag in #2792
• try to make aeroelastic test more reliable by @pcarruscag in #2798
• Don't use --werror for ARM builds by @pcarruscag in #2799

Other Changes

• Add functionality for unsteady restart handling in CSinglezoneDriver … by @Soumyadipta-Banerjee in #2730
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #2743
• Bump actions/cache from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #2702
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 6 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #2742

New Contributors

• @ThmsP made their first contribution in #2726
• @C-Perron made their first contribution in #2728
• @kanakaero made their first contribution in #2735
• @Soumyadipta-Banerjee made their first contribution in #2730
• @Sahilll10 made their first contribution in #2750
• @riddhi1228 made their first contribution in #2758
• @m-minervino made their first contribution in #2753
• @AngPass made their first contribution in #2572

Full Changelog: v8.4.0...v8.5.0