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New Aria Features

Improved conservation errors for complex advective bar geometries. A new advection velocity model has been added advection velocity = bar. This model computes the velocity field directly at each integration point while ensuring proper alignment with the bar flow direction. The previous user field model interpolated a nodal velocity field to the integration points, which could result in large conservation errors for non-collinear bars. This previous model advection velocity = user_field name = bar_velocity has been deprecated and will error in the 5.8 release.

New Chaparral Features

Added memory estimates and suggestions for enclosures to the chaparral log file. Also added a command line keyword to terminate the simulation early after outputting these estimates/suggestions to the chaparral log file. This can be done by adding --estimate_viewfactor_proc after the aria executable.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue with heartbeat output on simulation end. Aria will now always output the final step of a simulation e.g. if Termination Time = 5 and the heartbeat interval is at time 0 interval is 2, time=5 will still appear in all output. This is now true of all output (i.e. the heartbeat, exodus output, restart database, etc)
Fixed an issue in the advective bar where the velocity was computed using a density based on the temperature at the previous time step as opposed to the iterated temperature field available from the nonlinear iteration.

New Deprecations (will error in 5.4)

The getGlobalVariable(name) interface for user subroutines is deprecated use getGlobalVariableValue(name) instead. The old method returned the current global variable reference, which allowed unsafe editing and potential bugs.
The use of USE BLOCK within the bulk element block to specify a block in the mesh to be used in lieu of creating bulk node parts has been deprecated. If a mesh already contains a bulk node block with the same name (e.g. from a previous simulation) this will be used automatically.
Output to file support for dataprobes has been deprecated. Please add the data probe global variable to a heartbeat output block instead.