v24.1rc0

Features

• The pybamm_install_odes command now includes support for macOS systems and can be used to set up SUNDIALS and install the scikits.odes solver on macOS (#3417)
• Added support for Python 3.12 (#3531)
• Added method to get QuickPlot axes by variable (#3596)
• Added custom experiment terminations (#3596)
• Mechanical parameters are now a function of stoichiometry and temperature (#3576)
• Added a new unary operator, EvaluateAt, that evaluates a spatial variable at a given position (#3573)
• Added a method, insert_reference_electrode, to pybamm.lithium_ion.BaseModel that insert a reference electrode to measure the electrolyte potential at a given position in space and adds new variables that mimic a 3E cell setup. (#3573)
• Serialisation added so models can be written to/read from JSON (#3397)
• Added a get_parameter_info method for models and modified "print_parameter_info" functionality to extract all parameters and their type in a tabular and readable format (#3584)
• Mechanical parameters are now a function of stoichiometry and temperature (#3576)

Bug fixes

• Reverted a change to the coupled degradation example notebook that caused it to be unstable for large numbers of cycles (#3691)
• Fixed a bug where simulations using the CasADi-based solvers would fail randomly with the half-cell model (#3494)
• Fixed bug that made identical Experiment steps with different end times crash (#3516)
• Fixed bug in calculation of theoretical energy that made it very slow (#3506)
• The irreversible plating model now increments f"{Domain} dead lithium concentration [mol.m-3]", not f"{Domain} lithium plating concentration [mol.m-3]" as it did previously. (#3485)

Optimizations

• Updated jax and jaxlib to the latest available versions and added Windows (Python 3.9+) support for the Jax solver (#3550)

Breaking changes

• Dropped support for the [jax] extra, i.e., the Jax solver when running on Python 3.8. The Jax solver is now available on Python 3.9 and above (#3550)