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Stacked on #1058 (part 2/7 of the stack tracked in #1057). The reviewable content of this PR is its LAST commit — the earlier commits are the lower stack levels and will vanish from this diff as they merge and the stack rebases.

The multi-dimensional correction: -(1 - beta) T_in on the incoming
amplitude, where T_in carries the tangential convective and dilatational
terms in the outward frame (the ghost-cell transplantation of Motheau's
T1/T4 -- one expression for lo and hi faces). Tangential derivatives
come from the boundary cell's clamped neighbours; at a corner the
stencil collapses one-sided or to nothing, which is the measured
replacement for the AIAA corner-coupling machinery.

The beta blend is exact for a plane wave at incidence theta:
beta_opt = 1 - cos(theta)/(1 + cos(theta)) -- 0.5 head-on, toward 1 at
grazing -- and both measured optima in the COVO/pulse suite land on it.
The response is asymmetric (a wrong beta is worse than an absent one),
so the default stays 1: this PR is bit-inert until a problem opts in,
and every result of the previous PR is unchanged.

The clamp leaves a small measured seam residual where a characteristic
face meets a periodic direction, and that trade is guarded rather than
assumed: nscbc_check_periodic_wrap() measures the ghost-image mismatch
at startup, reports it beside the boundary-row spread (so a vacuous
pass is visible), and aborts above 1e-2 -- an order above the worst
known-good measurement and an order below what a broken stencil
produces.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01XU8M23nucKsu1do2WxXFeq

drummerdoc and others added 2 commits August 28, 2026 10:06
…LODI limit

The base characteristic treatment as a ghost-cell fill: one wave
decomposition in an outward-normal frame, two boundary types.  Outgoing
invariants extrapolate from the interior on a minmod-limited slope; the
incoming acoustic is modelled as a Poinsot-Lele relaxation written as a
gradient increment (a mesh-independent rate, so literature coefficients
transfer), sigma at outflows, relax_u/relax_t at inflows, with a
stateless feed-forward slot (Target::dudt) for problems that inject
signals.  Supersonic faces are exact.  Flow reversal at an outflow runs
the same closure with the material slopes upwinded off across a narrow
Mach band -- one code path on both sides of u_out = 0.

The fill is a pure function of pre-launch interior data: idempotent,
order-independent, bit-reproducible across restarts and decompositions,
GPU-resident (POD captures, counted fallbacks instead of device
aborts).  Every fallback increments a counter and the counters report by
default -- a silent fallback is indistinguishable from a healthy
boundary.  Problems opt in per boundary POINT through a
bcnormal_nscbc() hook returning a Target; a face may mix inflow,
outflow and wall.  EB requires eb_zero_body_state (fatal otherwise, the
fill detects covered cells by non-positive density); an AMR fine face
touching a characteristic boundary warns.

This PR is the 1-D-normal LODI limit on purpose: transverse terms and
the reacting-boundary closures arrive as the next two PRs in this
stack, each an additive, default-off correction to the modelled
incoming wave (some comments here forward-reference them).  Verification
driver and regression cases follow in the stack; headline number from
the case PR: an acoustic pulse leaves through this boundary with 0.8%
reflection against 97% for a hard-pressure fill.

Also removes the dead nscbc_adv/nscbc_diff keys of the deleted Fortran
implementation (aborting, not ignoring, when an inputs file still sets
them) and retires the 1 K default for eb_boundary_T in favour of 300 K.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XU8M23nucKsu1do2WxXFeq
The multi-dimensional correction: -(1 - beta) T_in on the incoming
amplitude, where T_in carries the tangential convective and dilatational
terms in the outward frame (the ghost-cell transplantation of Motheau's
T1/T4 -- one expression for lo and hi faces).  Tangential derivatives
come from the boundary cell's clamped neighbours; at a corner the
stencil collapses one-sided or to nothing, which is the measured
replacement for the AIAA corner-coupling machinery.

The beta blend is exact for a plane wave at incidence theta:
beta_opt = 1 - cos(theta)/(1 + cos(theta)) -- 0.5 head-on, toward 1 at
grazing -- and both measured optima in the COVO/pulse suite land on it.
The response is asymmetric (a wrong beta is worse than an absent one),
so the default stays 1: this PR is bit-inert until a problem opts in,
and every result of the previous PR is unchanged.

The clamp leaves a small measured seam residual where a characteristic
face meets a periodic direction, and that trade is guarded rather than
assumed: nscbc_check_periodic_wrap() measures the ghost-image mismatch
at startup, reports it beside the boundary-row spread (so a vacuous
pass is visible), and aborts above 1e-2 -- an order above the worst
known-good measurement and an order below what a broken stencil
produces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XU8M23nucKsu1do2WxXFeq
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drummerdoc force-pushed the nscbc-1b-transverse branch from e3e5182 to ece2d39 Compare August 28, 2026 08:07
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