4.1. SCR for ARMI 0.6.1

This is a listing of all the Software Change Request (SCR) changes in the ARMI repository, as part of release number 0.6.1.

Below, this SCR is organized into the individual changes that comprise the net SCR for this release. Each SCR below explicitly lists its impact on ARMI requirements, if any. It is also important to note ARMI and all its requirements are tested entirely by the automated testing that happens during the ARMI build. None of the SCRs below will be allowed to happen if any single test fails, so it can be guaranteed that all SCRs below have fully passed all testing.

4.1.1. SCR Listing

The following lists display all the SCRs in this release of the ARMI framework.

List of SCRs of type: Code Changes, Features

  • PR #2303: Encapsulating global nuclide data in classes

    • Change: Making classes to contain the global data in nuclideBases.py and elements.py.

    • Impact on Requirements: The code related to nuclideBases and elements is being refactored to be more contained: I_ARMI_ND_ELEMENTS0, I_ARMI_ND_ELEMENTS1, I_ARMI_ND_DATA0, I_ARMI_ND_DATA1, I_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES0, I_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES1, I_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES2, I_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES3, I_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES4, I_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES5, I_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES6, and I_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES7 for R_ARMI_ND_ELEMENTS, R_ARMI_ND_DATA, and R_ARMI_ND_ISOTOPES.

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer(s): Drew Johnson, Arrielle Opotowsky

  • PR #2317: Simplify thermal scattering

    • Change: Simplifying the API and architecture for the old thermal scattering laws.

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Drew Johnson

  • PR #2320: Providing interface method interactRestart for managing restarts

    • Change: Provide interactRestart interface method for managing restarts

    • Impact on Requirements: R_ARMI_SNAPSHOT_RESTART implementation is modified to use this new behavior

    • Author: Drew Johnson

    • Reviewer: John Stilley

  • PR #2321: Adding Core.hasLib to check if there is a XS library

    • Change: Provide Core.hasLib to check if there is a cross section library

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: Drew Johnson

    • Reviewer: John Stilley

  • PR #2324: Adding orientationBOL to full core modifier

    • Change: Ensure beginning of life orientations are expanded to full core by the FullCoreModifier.

    • Impact on Requirements: None

    • Author: Alex James

    • Reviewer: John Stilley

  • PR #2325: Creating a new setting to specify memory requirement for cross section calculation

    • Change: Add a setting to the crossSectionControl dictionary to mark the memory requirements for each cross section type.

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: Michael Jarrett

    • Reviewer(s): John Stilley, Arrielle Opotowsky

List of SCRs of type: Code Changes, Bugs and Fixes

  • PR #2328: Ensuring that users define isotopics for custom materials

    • Change: Ensuring that users define isotopics for custom materials

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Chris Keckler

  • PR #2331: Resolve TEST_ROOT path

    • Change: TBD

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: Arrielle Opotowsky

    • Reviewer(s): crswong888, John Stilley

List of SCRs of type: Code Changes, Maintenance, or Trivial

  • PR #2306: Removing volume from getMgFlux()

    • Change: Removing volume from getMgFlux()

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Arrielle Opotowsky

  • PR #2309: Moving plotting functions into utils module

    • Change: Moving all the remaining plotting functions into the utils module.

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Arrielle Opotowsky

  • PR #2310: Removing unnecessary code from Assembly.getBlocksBetweenElevations

    • Change: Removing unnecessary code from Assembly.getBlocksBetweenElevations.

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Chris Keckler

  • PR #2315: Moving some testing utils to testing module

    • Change: Refactor some testing utils to use testing module

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Arrielle Opotowsky

  • PR #2327: Adding a unit test to HexGrid.generateSortedHexLocationList

    • Change: Adding a unit test to HexGrid.generateSortedHexLocationList.

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Arrielle Opotowsky

List of SCRs of type: Documentation-Only Changes

  • PR #2250: Logging redundant material modifications

    • Change: Logging redundant material modifications.

    • Impact on Requirements: Trivial logging change to I_ARMI_BP_COMP for R_ARMI_BP_COMP.

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Chris Keckler

  • PR #2311: Starting the ARMI 0.6.1 release cycle

    • Change: Starting the ARMI 0.6.1 release cycle.

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer(s): Drew Johnson, Arrielle Opotowsky

  • PR #2312: Updating XS group manager requirements

    • Change: Update requirements and test tags for cross section group manager.

    • Impact on Requirements: Update description for R_ARMI_XSGM_CREATE_REPR_BLOCKS and R_ARMI_XSGM_CREATE_XS_GROUPS.

    • Author: Michael Jarrett

    • Reviewer(s): Tony Alberti, John Stilley

  • PR #2314: Documenting ARMI’s testing tools for devs

    • Change: Documenting ARMI’s testing tools for devs

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Arrielle Opotowsky

  • PR #2332: Adding settings header to the settings YAML

    • Change: Adding settings header to the settings YAML.

    • Impact on Requirements: NA

    • Author: John Stilley

    • Reviewer: Arrielle Opotowsky