OpenMC version 0.9.0

Announcements
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Hi all,

The OpenMC development team is proud to announce the release of version 0.9.0. Some of the exciting new features in this release include:

  • Stochastic volume calculations
  • Multi-delayed group cross section generation
  • Ability to calculate multi-group cross sections over meshes
  • Temperature interpolation on cross section data
  • Nuclear data interface in Python API
  • Ability to define fuel by enrichment
  • Random sphere packing for TRISO particle generation
  • Critical eigenvalue search
  • Energy function tally filters
  • New XML parser, pugixml
  • Differential tallies
  • Consistent multi-group scattering matrices
    Our documentation has also improved substantially and includes a number of new example Jupyter notebooks.

I’d like to thank Will Boyd, Sterling Harper, Colin Josey, Jingang Liang, Adam Nelson, Sam Shaner, Jon Walsh, and especially first-time contributors Amanda Lund and Qingming He for their contributions to this release. The source code can be downloaded at https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/releases or the master branch on the GitHub Repository.

Best regards,
Paul

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Awesome. Thanks to all the developers :slight_smile:

3

Hi Paul,

Once again thank you and all the developers very much>

Is it possible that you put a PDF for documentation on the releases page like you did for version 0.8.0.

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Just added a PDF of the documentation on the releases page. Thanks for suggesting!

5

Well done! Thank you for your work!

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Hi Paul,

You said the PDF doucumentation could found on the releases page, but I could found the release page in any web.

Could you tell me which is the websites? Thanks

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Here it is: https://github.com/mit-crpg/openmc/releases/download/v0.9.0/OpenMC_0.9.0.pdf

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Thank you developers.

I am getting the follwing error while installing it.

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PLease Help.

REgards,
Archana Sharma

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Hi Archana,

Apparently, this is caused by a bug in a very recent release of Anaconda. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/46457813/1572453.

Best,
Paul

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thanks to all the developers. great work