Feature Roadmap

The following features are planned for future versions, but there are no fixed plans about when they will be implemented, if at all.

• other forms of advection term: convection form, divergence form, skew-symmetric form
• more flexible vertical boundary conditions: periodic, spatially variable, …
• support more combinations of boundary conditions and processes
• additional smooth- and rough-wall models
• additional subgrid-scale models: dynamic, Lagrangian, scale-dependent…
• vegetation drag model
• immersed-boundary method
• transport of passive scalars
• thermal/gravity effects with Boussinesq approximation
• Coriolis effects
• hurricane boundary-layer model
• additional time-integration methods (including automatic/dynamic step size)
• automatic tuning of pressure-solver batch size
• scaling to more than one process/thread per layer
• better handling of errors during MPI testing
• optional use of GPU computing

Small Tasks & Checks

• better handling of noise intensity
• move checkpoints in time integration from number of steps to moments in time
• name node sets consistently (I & C)
• name velocities and coordinates consistently (u1/u2/u3 & x1/x2/x3 rather than u/v/w & x/y/z)
• write “developer documentation“ with more information about the structure of the code
• support wall time for output frequency, especially for diagnostics
• add ascii plots to the diagnostics output
• only specify nodeset of logged variables once
• split into sub-modules
• allow choosing powers of 2 for 3/2N