1.9

New in this release

Thanks to the work by @phigas this version has multiple improvements, including:

• New hole types that can be easily defined via coordinates
• Much improved profiles, maps and thermal conductivity calculations
• Improved phonon sources
• Improved documentation
• Improved plots
• Fixed parabolic hole
• Fixed holes in the holes bugs
• Refactoring of the code related to scattering, holes, sources, and materials
• Added various warnings
• and many other fixes...

Breaking changes

• Heat capacity is no longer defined in the input file, but is determined automatically. #9
• Added new parameters NUMBER_OF_VIRTUAL_TIMESTEPS and NUMBER_OF_STABILIZATION_TIMEFRAMES, see documentation.
• Angle distribution is sources are changed. See documentation.

1.8

New in this version

• Improved thermal conductivity calculation
• Implemented output of heat flux maps, thanks to the work by @fbarbierchebbah
• Minor plotting improvements
• Improving examples

1.7

New in this release

• Multiprocessing. Thanks to the efforts of @phigas, FreePATHS can now use multiple cores which speeds up the simulations many times. To enable it, add NUMBER_OF_PROCESSES = N to your config, where N is the desired number of processes to use.
• Added Graphene/Graphite material and the ability to simulate 2D materials. See this example.
• Implemented cumulative thermal conductivity calculations.
• Colorized output.
• Minor improvements

1.6

New in this release

• The ability to create multiple phonon sources
• Reimplementation of the holes
• Implementation of semicircles by Felix Barbier
• Calculation of heat flux projections
• Various small improvements

1.4

New in this release

• The ability to create more than one hot or cold sides
• Improving behavior of the hot side
• Minor fixes

1.3

New in this version

• Added ability to create thermal gradients in any direction by placing the cold and hot sides at any boundary.
• Minor bug fixes

1.2

New in this version

• Complete rewrite of the simulator using more OOP oriented approach and better architecture.
• Implementing animations of phonon paths
• Switching to using input files from the user
• Providing examples of typical input files
• Improving phonon path storage, so that only scattering points are saved
• Implementing parabolic boundaries (Thanks to work of Dhanishtha Singh)