v2.0.0

Added

• Add libm dep for reproducible trig functions
  • Rust std/core defers to libc or other platform-dependent math libraries for trig functions, which can cause platform-dependent results
  • libm is a pure rust implementation of most functions from MUSL libm, and is platform-independent to the extent that the processor's implementation of floating point math conforms to IEEE-754
• Add scalar calculations of vector potential, magnetic field, and poloidal flux of a circular filament extracted from vector loop
  • Scalar calculations now used as the inner function in the vector loops
  • This produces no performance regression, and some improvements in a few cases, while improving readability by separating physics from array handling
• Add mutual_inductance_circular_to_linear family of functions for calculating mutual inductance between circular filaments and piecewise-linear paths
• Add flux_density_circular_filament_cartesian family of functions for calculating B-field from circular filaments to points in cartesian coordinates
• Add cartesian_to_cylindrical and cylindrical_to_cartesian conversion functions
• Add decompose_filament function for converting the start and end points of a filament to the midpoint and length vector
• Add body_force_density_linear_filament and body_force_density_circular_filament_cartesian families of functions for calculating JxB force density
• Add mesh_filament module and mesh_edge_inductance function for calculating full inductance matrix over a collection of disjoint segments
  • Same throughput perf as linear filament inductance for a given input geometry, but allocates for the full NxM output matrix
  • doc(hidden) for now, as the API is likely to change in the near future to avoid reallocating input data
• Add point_source module with dipole field
• Add (internal) testing module with array-handling utilities for tests
• Add (internal) macros for checking slice lengths

Changed

• Use Slice::fill(0.0) instead of manually zeroing output arrays
• Use macro for checking array lengths to reduce repeated code
• !Consolidate function signatures of circular filament calcs to reduce number of args and group args by physical association

v1.1.0

Added

• Add vector potential calcs for linear and circular filaments w/ parallel variants
• Add parallel variants of circular filament flux and flux density calcs
• Add tests of serial and parallel variants to make sure they produce the same result
• Add tests of equivalence between flux/inductance, flux density, and vector potential calcs

Changed

• Move Biot-Savart calcs to linear filament module and rename appropriately
  • Leave use-as references to prevent breaking change to API
• Eliminate small allocations from parallel variant of Biot-Savart to reduce overhead when running with a large number of cores
  • 40%-100% speedup for small numbers of observation points
• Defensively zero-out output slices
• Convert some #[inline(always)] directives to plain #[inline]

v1.0.0

Added

• Initial release