Re: Respin Fluka2008.3.7

Dear Shahid,
I think that it's better to download the latest version.
Andrea

> Dear All,
>
> We have an older version of fluka fluka2006.3b-linuxAA at Bartol; it has
> expired. I was wondering how can we renew the licence? We want to use this
> same old version for a study. Thanks! Shahid
>> Dear FLUKA users
>>
>> a respin, Fluka2008.3.7, has been just pushed to the web sites.
>>
>> It contains corrections for a couple of rare PEANUT crashes, as
>> well as a (partial) protection for inputs which redefine a standard
>> material with a very different density, without defining or
>> undefining through MAT-PROP the relevant gas pressure.
>>
>> E.g., if the input is redefining Helium, which is predefined at its 1
>> atm
>> density/pressure, and the density is changed to the one of liquid
>> helium,
>> of course the input should also undefine the default gas pressure (1
>> atm).
>>
>> If this is not done (and apparently many users forgot about) crazy dE/dx
>> results can occur. Now a (partial) protection is built in the code.
>> It would be anyway better to define (or undefine) with care the pressure
>> when required.
>>
>> As usual, assistance and bug correction will be done only on the latest
>> respin
>>
>> Ciao
>> Alfredo
>> for the FLUKA developers
>>
>>
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>
Received on Sun Feb 22 2009 - 19:33:21 CET