v2.6.2

🚀 WinCalc v2.6.2 — Effective Thermal Values Update

🔍 Overview

This release focuses on improved thermal calculations, performance optimizations, and alignment with the new EffectiveThermalValues branch of the Window Calculation Engine (WCE).

✨ Highlights

• Integration with EffectiveThermalValues (WCE):
  Updated to use the EffectiveThermalValues version of the WCE core for more accurate and consistent thermal computations.
• New Effective Thermal Multipliers:
  Adopted the latest effective thermal multiplier models to improve precision in layer-by-layer analysis.
• Simplified effective layer calculations:
  Replaced inheritance-based design with lightweight functional implementations, improving readability and performance.
• Specular layer speed-ups:
  Major performance improvements for specular optical layers; calculations are now significantly faster.
• Memory optimizations:
  Reduced overall memory usage across multi-pane and optical calculations.
• Multi-pane improvements:
  create_multi_pane now uses is_specular_only from n_band_material, simplifying logic and improving consistency.
• Airflow updates:
  Refined thermal airflow modeling for louvered shutters.
• Validation enhancements:
  Products with diffuse measured data now require a BSDF hemisphere for calculations; related tests have been updated.
• Version bump:
  CMake project version incremented to 2.6.2.
• Miscellaneous updates:
  Minor fixes to chart outputs and references to the correct release branches.