[Ncep.list.wwatch3.discussion-group] WW3 updated to version 6.04: Implicit scheme with domain decomposition

[Arun Chawla - NOAA Federal]

Huzzah !

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On Jun 8, 2018, 12:40 PM, at 12:40 PM, Jessica Meixner - NOAA Federal <jessica.meixner at noaa.gov> wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>WAVEWATCH III is now at version 6.04 with the inclusion of the ugdev2
>branch! A quick list of the updates are:
>
>   - Implicit time integration was added for unstructured grids
>   - Domain decomposition was added for unstructured implicit/explicit
>   schemes using PDLIB (Parallel Domain Decomposition Library) based on
>   ParMetis
>   - The SHRD/DIST ISEA/JSEA process was updated with GET_ISEA_INIT and
>   GET_JSEA_INIT
>   - Improved preprocessing of unstructured grid arrays was developed
>- New and more efficient wetting/drying was added for unstructured
>grids
>   - A new switch pre-processor WW3_switch_process
>   - MEMCHECK options was added to trace memory usage during runtime
>   constructing a new interface to MALLOC and system msg.
>   - SETUP switch - implicit unstructured computation of wave setup
>   (experimental)
>   - Added various debug switches
>
>More details can be found on the Vlab Issue at
>https://vlab.ncep.noaa.gov/redmine/issues/51370.
>
>Please note that there were lots of changes made including various bug
>fixes.  The changes in the structured regtests if any, were small in
>magnitude. Due to the large amounts of changes, I would be a recommend
>making a test of your applications to insure there are no issues*.* If
>you
>do have problems, please create an issue describing it on Vlab (
>https://vlab.ncep.noaa.gov/redmine/projects/emc-ww3/issues/new) adding
>Aron, Ali and me as watchers or send an email (emails:
>aaronroland at gmx.de,
>ali.abdolali at noaa.gov, jessica.meixner at noaa.gov).
>
>The next commit will be from the nml branch, and then we will be making
>an
>alpha release.
>
>Best,
>Jessica
>
>-- 
>Jessica Meixner
>NCEP/EMC
>NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction
>
>
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