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Turbulence

The omegaWallFunction was updated to replicate v1606+ behaviour via the blended keyword. For more information, see commit ef0361f7

Heat transfer

The nMoles entry is no longer required in the thermophysicalProperties dictionary

Heat flux field names have been updated to use a lower case q, e.g. radiative heat flux field name Qr to qr

The externalWallHeatFluxTemperature boundary condition now requires a mode entry to state the mode of operation

Function objects

ALL: the evaluateControl entry was renamed executeControl

runTimePostProcessing: camera input changed (bug fix to the clipBox entry)

Utilities

noise

Inputs in the $FOAM_CASE/noiseDict dictionary were updated:

• change in syntax for input specification
• inputFiles entry renamed to files
• inputFile entry renamed to file
• for the pointNoise model the csvFileData sub-dictionary was removed

See source documentation in $FOAM_SRC/randomProcesses/noise/noiseModels