v0.3.0

Upcoming API Changes: The next major release of TORAX will include significant API updates including: changes to the config structure/nesting, improved output naming and structure and improved module loading. This release (v0.3.0) provides a stable version with significant changes from v0.2.0 for users to pick up improvements with a stable API.

TORAX improvements since v0.2.0 (highlights)

• Changes to interacting with TORAX programatically

  • Moved the config to Pydantic improving validation and readability
  • Replaced sim.Sim with torax.run_simulation which takes a torax.ToraxConfig

• Physics features

  • Average charge state equilibria added
  • QLKNN_7_11 transport model
  • qualikiz transport model
  • Improved simple models for pedestal boundary condition
  • Can split main ion and impurity into mixtures of ion species. DT ratio now impacts fusion power. Radiation for each separate impurity can be calculated
  • Improved radiation models including Mavrin polynomial fits to ADAS data
  • Cyclotron radiation
  • New Vloop boundary condition option for current diffusion equation

• **Miscellaneous and bugfixes

  • Fixes for q_face and s_face being stale
  • Fix in He3 tail temperature calculation
  • P_LH_minimum bugfix
  • Extra post-processed outputs added
  • Improved on-axis treatment of pprime and plasma current
  • Minor performance optimizations (~5% in compilation time and runtime)
  • Refactors: various restructuring and cleanups

New Contributors

• @hassec made their first contribution in #599
• @anteplu made their first contribution in #617
• @emmanuel-ferdman made their first contribution in #740
• @shreyans413 made their first contribution in #773
• @harshtech123 made their first contribution in #827
• @demoncoder-crypto made their first contribution in #869

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0