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    ENH: improve/verify atmBoundaryLayerInlet conditions · 336fb3bd
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      ENH: add generalised log-law type ground-normal inflow boundary conditions for
      wind velocity and turbulence quantities for homogeneous, two-dimensional,
      dry-air, equilibrium and neutral atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) modelling
    
      ENH: remove `zGround` entry, which is now automatically computed
    
      ENH: add `displacement height` entry, `d`
    
      ENH: add generalised atmBoundaryLayerInletOmega boundary condition
    
      ENH: add a verification case for atmBoundaryLayerInlet BCs
    
      DOC: improve atmBoundaryLayerInlet header documentation
    
      BUG: fix value-entry behaviour in atmBoundaryLayerInlet (fixes #1578)
      Without this change:
      - for serial-parallel computations, if `value` entry is available in
        an `atmBoundaryLayerInlet` BC, the theoretical ABL profile expressions
        are not computed, and the `value` entry content is used as a profile data
      - for parallel computations, if `value` entry is not available, `decomposePar`
        could not be executed.
      With this change:
      - assuming `value` entry is always be present, the use of `value` entry for
        the ABL profile specification is determined by a flag `initABL`
      - the default value of the optional flag `initABL` is `true`, but whenever
        `initABL=true` is executed, `initABL` is overwritten as `false` for the
        subsequent runs, so that `value` entry can be safely used.
      Thanks Per Jørgensen for the bug report.
    
      BUG: ensure atmBoundaryInlet conditions are Galilean-invariant (fixes #1692)
    
      Related references:
    
          The ground-normal profile expressions (tag:RH):
            Richards, P. J., & Hoxey, R. P. (1993).
            Appropriate boundary conditions for computational wind
            engineering models using the k-ε turbulence model.
            In Computational Wind Engineering 1 (pp. 145-153).
            DOI:10.1016/B978-0-444-81688-7.50018-8
    
        Modifications to preserve the profiles downstream (tag:HW):
            Hargreaves, D. M., & Wright, N. G. (2007).
            On the use of the k–ε model in commercial CFD software
            to model the neutral atmospheric boundary layer.
            Journal of wind engineering and
            industrial aerodynamics, 95(5), 355-369.
            DOI:10.1016/j.jweia.2006.08.002
    
        Expression generalisations to allow height
        variation for turbulence quantities (tag:YGCJ):
            Yang, Y., Gu, M., Chen, S., & Jin, X. (2009).
            New inflow boundary conditions for modelling the neutral equilibrium
            atmospheric boundary layer in computational wind engineering.
            J. of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 97(2), 88-95.
            DOI:10.1016/j.jweia.2008.12.001
    
        The generalised ground-normal profile expression for omega (tag:YGJ):
            Yang, Y., Gu, M., & Jin, X., (2009).
            New inflow boundary conditions for modelling the
            neutral equilibrium atmospheric boundary layer in SST k-ω model.
            In: The Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering,
            November 8-12, Taipei, Taiwan.
    
      Reproduced benchmark:
          Rectangular prism shown in FIG 1 of
            Hargreaves, D. M., & Wright, N. G. (2007).
            On the use of the k–ε model in commercial CFD software
            to model the neutral atmospheric boundary layer.
            Journal of wind engineering and
            industrial aerodynamics, 95(5), 355-369.
            DOI:10.1016/j.jweia.2006.08.002
      Benchmark data:
          HW, 2007 FIG 6
    
      TUT: update simpleFoam/turbineSiting tutorial accordingly
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