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    thermophysicalModels: Changed specie thermodynamics from mole to mass basis · c52e4b58
    Henry Weller authored
    The fundamental properties provided by the specie class hierarchy were
    mole-based, i.e. provide the properties per mole whereas the fundamental
    properties provided by the liquidProperties and solidProperties classes are
    mass-based, i.e. per unit mass.  This inconsistency made it impossible to
    instantiate the thermodynamics packages (rhoThermo, psiThermo) used by the FV
    transport solvers on liquidProperties.  In order to combine VoF with film and/or
    Lagrangian models it is essential that the physical propertied of the three
    representations of the liquid are consistent which means that it is necessary to
    instantiate the thermodynamics packages on liquidProperties.  This requires
    either liquidProperties to be rewritten mole-based or the specie classes to be
    rewritten mass-based.  Given that most of OpenFOAM solvers operate
    mass-based (solve for mass-fractions and provide mass-fractions to sub-models it
    is more consistent and efficien...
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