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-What:
-
-    Library, solver and utilities for avalanche modelling using finiteArea.
-
-Author:
-
-    Matthias Rauter <matthias@rauter.it>
-
-    who kindly supplied and ported the code from the original
-    implementation using foam-extend to OpenFOAM-1712.
-
-License:
-
-    Same terms as OpenFOAM.
-    Licensed under GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
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 **The OpenFOAM user guide can be found on https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/user-guide/**
 
-**Author: Matthias Rauter**
-**Mail: matthias (@) rauter (.) it**
-**Twitter: igt_matti**
+- **Author: Matthias Rauter**
+- **Mail: matthias (@) rauter (.) it**
+- **Twitter: igt_matti**
 
 
 ## Introduction
@@ -16,13 +16,7 @@ This module provides a model and tools for the simulation of **dense snow avalan
 
 ##### Source code
 
-Same as OpenFOAM:
-
-All code is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
-This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with OpenFOAM. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+Licence: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 ##### Real case example
 
@@ -434,10 +428,10 @@ with **unknown flow fields**
 * the density ration between sediment and water $R$ and
 * the gravitational acceleration $\mathbf{g} = \mathbf{g}_{\mathrm{s}}+\mathbf{g}_{\mathrm{n}}$.
 
-**Non-user-selectedable models** are used for 
+**Non-user-selectedable models** are used for
 * the water entrainment rate $e^{(w)}$:
 $e^{(w)} = \dfrac{0.00153}{0.0204+Ri}|\mathbf{\overline{u}}|$
-with 
+with
 $Ri = \dfrac{R\,g_{\mathrm{n}}\,\overline{c}\,h}{|\mathbf{\overline{u}}|^2}$
 * the sediment deposition rate $d^{(s)}$:
 $d^{(s)} = v_{\mathrm{s}}\,r_0\,\overline{c}$
@@ -500,7 +494,7 @@ with the depth-averaged kinetic energy $\overline{k}$, calculated with the PDE
 
 $\dfrac{\partial\,\overline{k}\,h}{\partial t}  + \nabla\cdot\left(\overline{k}\,h\,\mathbf{\overline{u}}\right) = \boldsymbol{\tau}_{\mathrm{b}}\cdot\mathbf{\overline{u}}+\dfrac{1}{2}|\mathbf{\overline{u}}|^2\,e^{(w)}-\epsilon\,h-R\,g_{\mathrm{n}}\,v_{\mathrm{s}}\,\overline{c}\,h-\dfrac{1}{2}R\,g_{\mathrm{n}}\,h\left(e^{(s)}-d^{(s)}\right)$
 
-with 
+with
 
 $\epsilon = \beta\dfrac{\overline{k}^{3/2}}{h}$
 
@@ -652,7 +646,7 @@ Parameters:
 * ```xmax```: extend in x-direction (optional)
 * ```ymin```: extend in y-direction (optional)
 * ```ymax```: extend in y-direction (optional)
-*  ```postfix```: The postfix of the files. 
+*  ```postfix```: The postfix of the files.
 *  ```offset```: Mapping back to world coordinates from simulation coordinates (see gridToSTL/releaseAreaMapping)