What's New - Developers

This document lists the change history for the developer-level Wind-US documentation. Note that access to the developer-level documentation is restricted to registered Wind-US users. Contact Dennis.A.Yoder@nasa.gov for more information.

9 Nov 2009

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.100. The call-tree diagrams still need to be updated, and some of the cross-links between individual routines may be broken.

4 Sep 2009

• Updated the URL for the NPARC Alliance Home Page.

21 Aug 2009

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.97. Additional changes still need to be made to the call-tree diagrams, but the documentation for individual routines should be properly cross-linked.

30 Jun 2009

• No updates needed for consistency with version 3.95, only changes to the WIND User's Guide.

26 Jun 2009

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.94.

27 May 2009

• Changed contact person for the Wind-US documentation.

6 Apr 2009

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.93.

9 Mar 2009

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.92.

5 Mar 2009

• Updated the Boundary Conditions section for consistency with version 3.91.

27 Feb 2009

• Updated the Solution Phases section for consistency with version 3.91.

18 Feb 2009

• Updated High-Level Structure for consistency with version 3.91.

17 Feb 2009

• Various updates for partial consistency with version 3.91. Additional changes still need to be made, including changes in the "Boundary Conditions", "High-Level Structure", and "Solution Phases" sections.

9 Feb 2009

• Various updates for partial consistency with version 3.84. Additional changes still need to be made, including changes in the "Boundary Conditions", "High-Level Structure", and "Solution Phases" sections.

15 Dec 2008

• Various updates for partial consistency with version 3.67. Additional changes still need to be made, including changes in the "Boundary Conditions", "High-Level Structure", and "Solution Phases" sections.

2 Sep 2008

• Added a Common File Headers section defining the global and zonal header variables (i.e., the ipar's, etc.) for all the common files used with Wind-US.

15 Aug 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.48.

23 July 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.44.

16 July 2008

• Modified each page to use server-side includes for adding the footer.

27 June 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.39.

24 June 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.38.

4 June 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.37.

2 June 2008

• Various updates related to chemistry routines and variables.

24 Apr 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.28.

20 Mar 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.25.

1 Feb 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.18.

16 Jan 2008

• Documented modules fomoco, gridqual, iosubs, ps_commons, and ps_pack_objs.
• Added a Module Variables section that defines, in one place, all the public variables and parameters declared in modules.

8 Jan 2008

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.17.

5 Dec 2007

• Added an "external link" symbol () to all links to non-NASA sites, per NASA policy.

14 Nov 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.15.

26 Oct 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.10.
• Subroutines plinit, tqinit, tskbeg, and tskidl are now fully documented.

29 Aug 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 3.5, especially for Boundary Conditions, parallel Process Initiation and Control, and subroutines zone_mem_alloc and zone_mem_dealloc.

22 June 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 2.210.

4 June 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 2.205.

1 May 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 2.198.

27 Mar 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 2.185.

15 Mar 2007

• Updated the Miscellaneous Scripts for consistency with the new Perl scripts.

12 Mar 2007

• Updated the Scripts section to be (mostly) consistent with the new Perl scripts that will become official by the time Wind-US 2.0 is released. Note, though, that the new scripts are not yet available via IVMS.

6 Mar 2007

• Updated the URL for the NPARC Alliance Home Page .

18 Jan 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 2.167.

8 Jan 2007

• Various updates for consistency with version 2.164.

21 Nov 2006

• Various updates for consistency with version 2.154.

20 Nov 2006

• Various updates for consistency with version 2.147 (HTML version only).

6 Oct 2006

• Updates for consistency with version 2.144 (current version, finally).

2 Oct 2006

• Updates for consistency with version 2.135.

27 Sep 2006

• More updates for consistency with version 2.129.

18 Sep 2006

• Various updates for (partial) consistency with version 2.129, including the High-Level Structure, Solution Phases, Calling Trees, Modules, Subprograms, Parameters, and Common Blocks. There's still more to do, though, especially in adding variable definitions.

8 Aug 2006

• Updated the Scripts section for consistency with the current versions.

18 July 2006

• Changes for consistency with Wind-US 2.126.

17 July 2006

• Changes for consistency with Wind-US 2.115.

25 Apr 2006

• Changes to Calling Trees, Parameters, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.110.

8 Mar 2006

• Changes to High-Level Structure and Solution Phases for consistency with Wind-US 2.102.

1 Mar 2006

• Changes to Calling Trees, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.102.

8 Feb 2006

• Changes to Keyword Processing, Calling Trees, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.96.

18 Jan 2006

• Added a Keyword Processing section, describing the methods used to read and parse input keywords in the .dat file.

5 Jan 2006

• Because of its size, the PDF form of the Wind-US Developer's Reference has been split into four volumes, as follows:
  • "Volume 1 - General", containing everything not in the other three volumes
  • "Volume 2 - Code Structure", containing the high-level structure diagrams, the description of the solution phases, and the detailed calling trees
  • "Volume 3 - Parameters and Variables", containing lists and definitions of Fortran parameters and common block variables
  • "Volume 4 - Program Units", containing lists and descriptions of modules, statement functions, and subprograms

21 Dec 2005

• Updated all links to the NASA Privacy and Accessibility Policies to conform with the latest NASA requirement.

20 Dec 2005

• Changes to Calling Trees, Common Blocks, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.95.

22 Nov 2005

• Eliminated most usage of images and "words" for equation elements throughout the HTML version of the Wind-US Developer's Reference, in favor of the appropriate HTML character entities. E.g., instead of using a GIF image or the word "rho" to represent the Greek letter rho, the character entity ρ is used instead. Images were originally used because HTML browsers typically didn't support character entities for many of the symbols that were used. Current-generation browsers, however, are much better. Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 supports all the character entities used in the CGNS documentation, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 supports all but a couple. See the list of standard HTML 4.0 character entities for Symbols and Greek Letters to see how they are displayed in your browser.

17 Oct 2005

• Changes for consistency with Wind-US 2.93.

31 May 2005

• Changes to Development Environment, Code Structure, Common Blocks, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.81.

10 May 2005

• Changes to Development Environment, Code Structure, Boundary Conditions, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.71.

10 Feb 2005

• Changes to Calling Trees, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.58.

31 Jan 2005

• Updated Memory Management section for consistency with Wind-US, eliminating the old information about work arrays.
• Changes to Parameters, Calling Trees, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.52.

21 Jan 2005

• Changes to Statement Functions and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.44.

14 Dec 2004

• Changes to Calling Trees, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.35.

2 Dec 2004

• Changes to Calling Trees and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.27.

30 Nov 2004

• Changes to Parameters, Calling Trees, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.15.

19 Nov 2004

• Changes to Parameters, Calling Trees, Equation Sets and Groups, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.13.

15 Nov 2004

• Changes to Code Structure, Equation Sets and Groups, Common Blocks, Modules, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.10.

3 Nov 2004

• Changes to Boundary Conditions, Development Environment, Calling Trees, Common Blocks, and Subprograms for consistency with Wind-US 2.8.

19 Oct 2004

• Changes to detailed calling trees and detailed subroutine descriptions for consistency with Wind-US 1.98.

27 Sept 2004

• Minor changes to the Makefile descriptions in the Development Environment section for consistency with Wind-US 1.94.

16 Sept 2004

• Split the HTML version of the list of subprograms into separate files, organized alphabetically, for faster downloading.

11 Aug 2004

• Changes to detailed calling trees, detailed subroutine descriptions, and module descriptions, for consistency with Wind-US 1.84.

10 Aug 2004

• Added a Naming Rules subsection under Development Environment, listing the naming rules for files, modules, and interfaces.

9 Aug 2004

• Changes to common block variables, detailed calling trees, detailed subroutine descriptions, and module descriptions, for consistency with Wind-US 1.83.

23 July 2004

• Changes to common block variables, detailed calling trees, detailed subroutine descriptions, and module descriptions, for consistency with Wind-US 1.75.

24 June 2004

• Changes to common block variables, detailed calling trees, detailed subroutine descriptions, and module descriptions, for consistency with Wind-US 1.61.

22 June 2004

• Changes to common block variables, detailed calling trees, detailed subroutine descriptions, and module descriptions, for consistency with Wind-US 1.55.

17 June 2004

• Updated the list of common block variables, deleting many that are no longer used, and adding variable types for those defined using kind parameters.

16 June 2004

• Modified several of the detailed subroutine descriptions, for consistency with Wind-US 1.49.

14 June 2004

• Updated the Development Environment and Code Structure sections for consistency with Wind-US 1.49.

7 June 2004

• Updates to the detailed calling trees, module descriptions, and several of the detailed subroutine descriptions, for consistency with Wind-US 1.49. This includes the new generic routines added in the update to version 1.47, which incorporated many Fortran 90 features into the code. Several more updates still remain to be done, however, including the Development Environment, Code Structure, and Memory Management sections.
• Removed the separate Subprogram Basics document. This was becoming more and more difficult to maintain, especially with the recent addition of the new Fortran 90 features. If anyone especially misses this document, let me know.

2 Mar 2004

• Updates for consistency with Wind-US 1.44.
• Updated the descriptions of the directory structure and makefiles in the Development Environment section for consistency with the new makefile structure.

28 Jan 2004

• Updates for consistency with Wind-US 1.37. Note that the Wind-US code is now almost entirely free-form Fortran 90. (The main exceptions are the ADF, PVM, and libcfd library routines.)

  Developers need to be aware of this change, in particular for comment lines and multi-line statements. Comment lines must start with "!", not "c". Put "&" at the end of lines being continued, and no "continuation character" in column 6 of the next line. (Exception - if a keyword or character string is being split between lines, an "&" is needed at the start of the next line. But try hard to avoid this.)

22 Jan 2004

• Updates for consistency (mostly) with Wind-US 1.29, including:
  • A new Modules section, with descriptions of the new modules used in Wind-US
  • Updated Memory Management section, reflecting the use of the new generic alloc and dealloc routines.
  • Detailed documentation of the new subroutines used for memory allocation, deallocation, and tracking

17 Nov 2003

• Updates for consistency with Wind-US 1.24.

12 Nov 2003

• Updates for consistency with Wind-US 1.23.

30 Oct 2003

• Updates for consistency with Wind-US 1.17.

27 Oct 2003

• Updated Introduction, Development Environment, Code Structure, Memory Management, Parameters, Common Blocks, and Subprograms sections for Wind-US 1.16.

29 Apr 2003

• Added a site map for the WIND Developer's Reference.

17 Apr 2003

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.39.

31 Mar 2003

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.35.

19 Mar 2003

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.33.

17 Mar 2003

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.31.

14 Mar 2003

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.30.

7 Mar 2003

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.25.
• Added a paragraph in the Boundary Conditions section, noting that the Wilcox boundary condition is used in the SST model in bleed/blowing regions.

3 Mar 2003

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.22.

29 Jan 2003

• Documented subroutines visp and transp, and added definitions for several common block variables.

24 Jan 2003

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.18.

13 Jan 2003

• Added documentation for the windrun, runtest, and runtestsuite scripts.
• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.15.

20 Dec 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 6.13.

4 Dec 2002

• Brought the WIND Developer's Reference back on line, on a different server. Changed links to/from the Developer's Reference from relative to absolute URLs.

21 Nov 2002

• Documented subroutine fixer.

15 Nov 2002

• Updated the Development Environment section for consistency with the WIND 5 release.

31 Oct 2002

• Added definitions of common block variables associated with the LOADS keyword.

23 Oct 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.191.

10 Oct 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.186.

7 Oct 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.185.

19 Aug 2002

• Added a section describing the statement functions used in WIND.

16 Aug 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.175.

9 July 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.166.

3 July 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.161.

24 June 2002

• Added a list defining the System-Dependent Makefile Variables used when building the WIND executable.

6 June 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.154.

15 May 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.152.

14 May 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.150.

13 May 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.149.

10 May 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.146.
• Expanded and clarified(?) the description of the Boundary Data Structure (the bcdat and ibcdt arrays)

25 Apr 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.138.

23 Apr 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.136.

17 Apr 2002

• Documented subroutine getzone and function utmtch.

12 Apr 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.131.

26 Mar 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.125.
• Split Physical Models section into subsections, and added a subsection describing the vortex generator model.

11 Mar 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.122.

17 Jan 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.115.

9 Jan 2002

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.111.

12 Dec 2001

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.109.

30 Nov 2001

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.107.

20 Nov 2001

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.106.

15 Nov 2001

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.103.

25 Oct 2001

• Changed the High-Level Structure section to show separate high-level calling trees for serial mode, the master process in parallel mode, and a worker process in parallel mode.
• Modified the Solution Phases and Memory Management sections for consistency with the new memory allocation procedure in the flow solution phase added in version 5.87.
• Modified the descriptions of lpcycl, lpzone, mpsolv, spsolv, and wind, for consistency with the new memory allocation procedure in the flow solution phase added in version 5.87.
• Added definitions for several common block variables.

18 Sept 2001

• Updated for consistency with WIND 5.76.

5 Sept 2001

• Updated the Code Structure, Parameters, Memory Management, Common Blocks, and Subprograms sections, consistent with WIND 5.76. However, some of the detailed subroutine descriptions (of the few that exist at all) are out of date, and need updating.

14 Aug 2001

• Added and updated definitions for several common block variables.

12 July 2001

• Updated the detailed subroutine descriptions (those that exist) for consistency with the current version of WIND.

14 May 2001

• Updated the Code Structure, Parameters, Common Blocks, and Subprograms sections, consistent with WIND 4.0.151. However, some of the detailed subroutine descriptions (of the few that exist at all) are out of date, and need updating.

28 Nov 2000

• Added info to the Equation Sets and Groups section for the MFD equation sets.

1 May 2000

• Updated for consistency with WIND 3.0.42.
• Replaced the PostScript version of the WIND Developer's Reference with a PDF version.

18 Apr 2000

• Added list of Preferred Developer Options, to help test features being considered as the default mode of operation.

23 Mar 2000

• Updated the Development Environment, section for consistentency with WIND 3.0.

10 Jan 2000

• Updated the Code Structure, Parameters, Common Blocks, and Subprograms sections, consistent with WIND beta 3.0.4.
• Added normalization information for the MFD variables, from the old "NASTD Technical Development Manual", to the Normalizations section

2 Dec 1999

• Added Scripts section, documenting the WIND run scripts.

18 Nov 1999

• Small changes to several sections related to the new procedure (i.e., keyword TTSPEC) for reading point-by-point wall temperature and boundary layer transition information.

4 Nov 1999

• Modified the Boundary Conditions section, plus some variable definitions in the Common Blocks section and in subroutines kwbndcon and kwinflow, for the new generalized solid-body rotation capability, and the new time-varying bleed capability.

19 Aug 1999

• Expanded the Boundary Conditions section, and updated it for WIND 2.0.
• Split HTML version of Common Blocks section into separate files, organized alphabetically, for faster downloading when variable names are selected.

26 May 1999

• Updated the Development Environment section for consistency with current procedures.

11 May 1999

• Updated the Equation Sets and Groups section for WIND 2.0.

10 May 1999

• Updated the Subprograms section for WIND 2.0.

3 May 1999

• Updated the PostScript Subprogram Basics document for WIND 2.0.

29 Apr 1999

• Updated Common Blocks section for WIND 2.0.

28 Apr 1999

• Updated Parallel Implementation and Fortran Parameters sections for WIND 2.0.

2 Apr 1999

• Updated Code Structure and Memory Management sections for WIND 2.0.

16 Nov 1998

• Some additional Fortran Parameters and Common Block variables have been defined.
• Subroutines memget, memptr, mpsolv, psinit, psinpt, spsolv, teinit, and the wind main program have been documented.

20 Oct 1998

• Updated Memory Management section to add new integer working arrays.

8 Oct 1998

• Added Memory Management section.
• Added menus at the top of each WWW page for easier selection of other sections and documents.

28 Sept 1998

• Corrected the Numerical Models section, to say that the default explicit operator is the Roe second-order upwind scheme, modified for stretched grids.

16 Sept 1998

• Added argument list, file name, and purpose in Subprograms section for several routines normally distributed in object code libraries.

15 June 1998

• Modified (and changed the name) of Equation Sets and Groups section, adding info about equation groups.

8 June 1998

• Added Solution Phases section to the Developer's Reference, and modified High-Level Structure section.

21 May 1998

• In Developer's Reference: added info about equation sets used with Global Newton iteration; updated list of turbulence models under ivis; added point Jacobi to ischmi list; updated Actuator Disk subsection in Boundary Conditions section; added info on body force flag irotat to the Physical Models section.

7 May 1998

• Added Introduction, Development Environment, and Parallel Implementation sections to the Developer's Reference.
• Changed final directory name in the URL for the Developer's Reference from "prog" to "devel".

17 Mar 1998

• Changed the name of the WIND Programmer's Reference to WIND Developer's Reference, and updated the call trees and lists of parameters, common variables, and subprograms to be consistent with WIND 1.0.

4 Feb 1998

• Moved description of chemistry files from WIND Programmer's Reference to WIND User's Guide

15 Oct 1997

• Added remaining sections from "NASTD Technical Development Manual" to the WIND Programmer's Reference
• Split PostScript form of WIND Programmer's Reference into two files, (one with Subprogram Details, and one with everything else), instead of one file per section

23 Sept 1997

• Split "Subprogram Details" section of WIND Programmer's Reference into separate files for faster downloading when individual routines are referenced

22 Sept 1997

• Minor changes/corrections to "Files" section of WIND Programmer's Reference

16 Sept 1997

• Added description of chemistry files to WIND Programmer's Reference

19 Aug 1997

• First release