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January 2021. CryoSoft version 8.2 released in beta-version. The CryoSoft
codes have undergone extensive testing and many features have been improved
to match expected performance. New features include:
- The 1-, 2- and 3-D Finite Element solver that is a part of the standard
release has been improved to increase the numerical stability when treating
problems with bad conditioning, such as in the case of several coupled parallel
cooling channels in THEA;
- The time step adaptivity based on error control has been improved based on
the research of D.K. Oh at KBSI, improving the ability of TEHA to track rapid
changes in the solution as the simulation proceeds;
- Limit cases for current sharing and electro-thermal coupling in THEA 2.3
have been included to avoid instabilities;
- The new solid properties, rematched to reference data, are now linked to
THEA, HEATER, MAC, ZERODEE.
- Following many years of good service, GANDALF is now deprecated and will
no longer be part of new releases. Documnetation and examples will remain
on-line, but the code functionalities are now fully substituted by THEA.
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December 2016. CryoSoft version 8.1 released. This is the result of
two years of optimization, benchmarking, and development based on the
CryoSoft release 8.0, in close collaboration with ITER-IO (Cadarache, F)
and EPFL/SPC (Villigen, CH). The new release is now made available to the
end users. New features include:
- THEA 2.3, mesh adaptivity and front tracking capabilities are
shared through SUPERMAGNET, now including heat convection to the coolant
channels (hydraulics) as external source (user's defined) as well as to
couple to other codes;
- FLOWER 4.5, includes heat convection in the coolant channels (junctions)
that can be couopled to other codes;
- HEATER 2.1, has now additional heat source input possibilty including
volumetric heat sources, variable in time, surface convection heat transfer
and line convection heat transfer. Convective heat transfer can be used to
couple to other codes;
- SUPERMAGNET 2.1, coupling the main simulation codes in the CryoSoft suite,
now including mesh adaptivity and convection heat transfer.
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July 2016. Thermo-physical properties of solid materials. CryoSoft is
compiling a public version of the material properties database used in
the suite of codes. The material properties source and fortran routines
can be downloaded under the GNU General Public License conditions,
consult our software page.
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