Release 0.3.0

Release 0.3.0

New Features

• Refactor internal dissipation as external addon damping module by @bhosale2 in #114
  • New AnalyticalDamper
  • Update timestep values for the new damping module by @bhosale2 in #120
• Filter Damper class by @bhosale2 in #123
• Adding ConfigurableFixedConstraint boundary condition class by @mstoelzle in #143

What's Changed

• Adds significant digits to shear coefficient (Alpha) (#79) by @bhosale2 in #82
• Dissipation constant fix (#81) by @bhosale2 in #87
  • Scale dissipation constant by mass instead of length.
• Update FixedJoints: restoring spring-damped-torques, initial rotation offset by @mstoelzle in #135
• Update: Damping values for rod-rigid body contact cases (#171) by @bhosale2 in #172
• Fix damping force direction by @bhosale2 in #170
• Refactor: wrappers -> modules by @skim0119 in #177

Minor Fixes

• Fix compute shear energy function typo by @bhosale2 in #88
• Track velocity norms as dynamic proxies in Axial stretching and Timoshenko examples by @tp5uiuc in #97
• Node to element interpolation fix by @bhosale2 in #98
• Update: numba disable jit flag in poetry command by @bhosale2 in #146
• Adjusting data structure of fixed_positions and fixed_directors by @mstoelzle in #147
• Docs: correct endpoint forces docstring by @bhosale2 in #157
• Update: remove sys append calls in examples by @bhosale2 in #162

New Experimental Features

• Enabling joints to connect rods and rigid bodies by @mstoelzle in #149

Repository Updates

• Codeowners setup by @bhosale2 in #115
• Remove _elastica_numba folder while keeping _elastica_numba.py by @bhosale2 in #138
• Update CI: Add sphinx build by @skim0119 in #139
• Poetry setup for PyElastica (#101) by @bhosale2 in #141
• Add pre commit to pyelastica by @bhosale2 in #151
• Update makefile commands: test by @skim0119 in #156

Full Changelog: v0.2.4...v0.3.0