Capytaine v2.1

Version 2.1 includes the following major changes:

• New feature: approximate forward speed, based on the work of Donatini et al., 2022.
• Nicer terminal displays using the rich library (new mandatory dependency).
• More accurate tabulation of the Green function. The tabulation is now saved on disk.
• Optional new direct Boundary Integral Equation ("potential" formulation) instead of the default indirect BIE ("source" formulation).

This release also includes several bug fixes and minor usability improvements. See docs/changelog.rst for details.
It is also the first release to be compatible with Numpy 2.0.

Capytaine v2.0

• New features, such as
  • Setting directly the wavelength or wavenumber of a problem
  • Reconstructing the fluid velocity in post-processing
• Bug fixes and performance improvements
• Major update of the build toolchain, including release of precompiled binaries on PyPI (pip)

See the changelog in the documentation for more details.

Capytaine v1.5

New tools for the definition of the floating body and new options to customize the evaluation of the Green function.
See docs/changelog.rst for details.

(Replace the earlier release from today, which was broken.)

Capytaine v1.4.2

A few bug fixes and improvements of the documentation.
See docs/changelog.rst for details.

Note: the zip and tar.gz archives automatically created by Github are incomplete, they do not include the content of the git submodule. The archive annotated full is the same archive including the content of the submodule.

Capytaine v1.4.1

Bug fixes, including a major bug in the computation of hydrostatics.
See docs/changelog.rst for details.

Capytaine v1.4

This new release fixes some major bugs (high frequency asymptotics, sign of the diffusion in the RAO) and introduces new features such as the computation of the hydrostatics and a new parallelization strategy using Joblib.
See docs/changelog.rst for details.

Capytaine v1.3

Some minor changes and new features, mostly related to mesh generation and import.
See docs/changelog.rst for details.

Capytaine v1.2.1

Minor release with a few bug fixes.

Capytaine v1.2

Main changes in version 1.2:

• Remove some mandatory dependencies of the code.
• Experimental handling of higher order quadratures for integration.

See the changelog for more details.

Capytaine v1.1

Main changes in version 1.1:

• Refactoring of the internals of the solver for a more modular structure.
• Add Xie's variant of the Green function evaluation method.

See the changelog for more details.