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  <title>SpectraSim release notes</title>
  <subtitle>What changed in each SpectraSim version.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-10-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
  <author>
    <name>Ahmad Abosrea</name>
    <uri>https://spectrasimulations.com/about/</uri>
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    <title>SpectraSim 0.6.0a1 — First release</title>
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    <published>2026-10-29T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>First release of SpectraSim — acoustics, flow and heat transfer in one guided workflow, licensing with a 30-day trial, and the .spsim project file.</summary>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;First release of SpectraSim — acoustics, flow and heat transfer in one guided workflow, licensing with a 30-day trial, and the .spsim project file.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Acoustics, flow and heat transfer in one guided workflow.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Licensing with a 30-day trial requested from inside the program.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;One .spsim project file holds the settings, the CAD and the results.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Experimental (results not verified yet):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Compressible flow with the transonic SIMPLE solver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Compressible flow with the pseudo-transient (local time-step) solver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Inlet velocity given as a vector&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Insertion loss with a radiation domain at the outlet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mean-flow convection in the acoustic solve&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;JCA / JCAL absorbing-material models&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Parameter sweeps&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Temperature-dependent heat capacity of the gas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Known issues: &lt;a href=&quot;https://spectrasimulations.com/docs/known-limitations/&quot;&gt;Known limitations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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