GridFire can now support unity builds. This is useful for python
bindings. The main limitation is that openssl (a dependency of
libplugin) does not support unity builds. Therefore when building in a
unity build libplugin must be disabled. This is done with the
-Dunity-safe=ture flag at setup time
Neutrino loss is essential for neutrino cooling. Started adding
framework to track this. Reaclib reactions use a simple heuristic where
electron capture reactions loss 100% of their energy to neutrinos
whereas beta decay reactions loose 50% of their energy to neutrinos
Python bindings have now been brought back up to feature pairity with
C++. Further, stubs have been added for all python features so that code
completion will work
one major issue was that QSE solving was only running at each partition. This was creating effectivley infinite sources of partitioned species. Now we partition when engine updates are triggered, however, solveQSEAbundance is called every timestep. This has major performance implications and so has required a lot of optimization to make it even somewhat viable. For now construction is much slower. Time per iteration is still slower than it was before; however, it is tractable. There is also currently too much stiffness in the network. This is likeley a bug that was introduced in this refactoring which will be addressed soon.
This entailed a major rewrite of the composition handling from each engine and engine view along with the solver and primer. The intent here is to let Compositions be constructed from the same extensive property which the solver tracks internally. This addressed C0 discontinuity issues in the tracked molar abundances of species which were introduced by repeadidly swaping from molar abundance space to mass fraction space and back. This also allowed for a simplification of the primeNetwork method. Specifically the mass borrowing system was dramatically simplified as molar abundances are extensive.
Mirroring what was done in fourdst (see fourdst/tree/v0.8.5) we have added a temporary patch to let python bindings work on mac while the meson-python folks resolve the duplicate rpath issue in the shared object file
Added new ways to select exactly what types of reactions (strong, beta+, beta-, electron capture, positron capture, or any combination thereof) can be turned on at network construction time. There are a few quality of life masks added as well such as weak which addes all weak type reactions, and all which adds weak + strong reactions. The default is to just add strong reactions for now.
Major weak rate progress which includes: A refactor of many of the public interfaces for GridFire Engines to use composition objects as opposed to raw abundance vectors. This helps prevent index mismatch errors. Further, the weak reaction class has been expanded with the majority of an implimentation, including an atomic_base derived class to allow for proper auto diff tracking of the interpolated table results. Some additional changes are that the version of fourdst and libcomposition have been bumped to versions with smarter caching of intermediate vectors and a few bug fixes.
