Release 23.11

[Acoular-users]

We are happy to announce  a new release!

Supports Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 on Linux, MacOS, Windows

• New class MetricEvaluator to evaluate the performance of source mapping methods according to Herold and Sarradj (2017)
• New class PointSourceConvolve to blockwise convolve an arbitrary source signal with a spatial room impulse response
• All filter classes derived from Filter use SOS filters now
• No more version restrictions for scikit-learn
• Speedups for numba jitted functions by enforcing C-contiguous arguments and the efficient use SIMD processor instructions
• Class BeamformerOrth now reimplements orthogonal deconvolution to be even faster and has a slightly different interface
• Simple benchmark suite to compare the performance of Acoular core routines on different computers
• Some internal rework in grid and sector classes
• Test coverage is improved
• Bugfixes:
  • minor bugfix for convective amplification in BeamformerCleantTraj and BeamformerCleantTrajSq
  • bugfix in some attributes of ImportGrid