Gerris release notes/12-05-09

A lot has happened since the last (18-09-07) release notes! I will try to give an overview below.

Meanwhile the following JCP paper has been recently accepted for publication:

Journal of Computational Physics , 2009

See also the updated bibliography for other recent publications.

Gerris

Major improvements include:

Moving solid boundaries: this is an initial release, more will follow.
New axisymmetric version.
New non-linear shallow-water solver.
The reference dimension of the GfsBox can be set.
"2D3" ocean model has been replaced with a generalised 3D ocean code.
New Map module for cartographic projections.
New Terrain module for large height-field databases.
New Tide module for FES2004 tidal atlas database.
Major improvements to the VOF and surface tension code (as described in the JCP paper above).
New Cook Strait tides example.
New ship wave example.
New object GfsOutputDropletSums for VOF droplets statistics.
Vim dictionary and utilities.
Overall improvements to code portability (including Mac OSX).
Improvements to the Poisson and Crank-Nicholson diffusion coupling.
Both GfsRefineSolid and GfsRefineSurface now work with implicit surfaces.
Examples and tests are automatically cross-linked with the syntax reference.
Numerous bug fixes.

Have a look at the changelog for details.

In 2D Linear and Isoline objects can display 3D surfaces. See an example here.
New "Append" mode for gfsview-batch: This allows for example a single instance of gfsview-batch to generate several movies through named unix pipes.
Fix for crash when computing isosurface for "marginal" values.
Other bug fixes.

Have a look at the changelog for details.