diff --git a/ReleaseNotes-1.6 b/ReleaseNotes-1.6
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--- a/ReleaseNotes-1.6
+++ b/ReleaseNotes-1.6
@@ -73,19 +73,6 @@
+ Export *new* environment variable =FOAM_CASENAME= that contains the
name part of the =FOAM_CASE= environment variable.
-*** Numerics
- + *new* polynomial-fit higher-order interpolation schemes:
- - =biLinearFit=
- - =linearFit=
- - =quadraticLinearFit=
- - =quadraticFit=
- - =linearPureUpwindFit=
- - =quadraticLinearPureUpwindFit=
- - =quadraticLinearUpwindFit=
- - =quadraticUpwindFit=
- - =cubicUpwindFit=
- + *new* polynomial-fit higher-order Sn-Grad: =quadraticFitSnGrad=.
-
*** Turbulence modelling
+ Major development of turbulence model libraries to give extra flexibility
at the solver level. For solvers that can support either RAS/LES
@@ -188,6 +175,19 @@
+ Significant development of the libraries offering molecular dynamics
simulation functionality - see =mdFoam= and =mdEquilibrationFoam= below.
+*** Numerics
+ + *new* polynomial-fit higher-order interpolation schemes:
+ - =biLinearFit=
+ - =linearFit=
+ - =quadraticLinearFit=
+ - =quadraticFit=
+ - =linearPureUpwindFit=
+ - =quadraticLinearPureUpwindFit=
+ - =quadraticLinearUpwindFit=
+ - =quadraticUpwindFit=
+ - =cubicUpwindFit=
+ + *new* polynomial-fit higher-order Sn-Grad: =quadraticFitSnGrad=.
+
*** *New* surfMesh library
Provides a more efficient storage mechanism than possible with =triSurface=
without restrictions on the shape of the face (templated parameter).
@@ -196,112 +196,75 @@
=triSurface=).
+ =surfMesh= class - for reading/writing in native OpenFOAM format.
-* Solver restructuring
- The upgrade to the turbulence models means that the simulation type, i.e.
- laminar, RAS or LES can be selected at run time. This has allowed a reduction
- in the number of solvers, simplifying the overall code structure
- + Solvers which support laminar, RAS and LES:
- - =turbFoam=, =oodles= \rightarrow =pisoFoam=.
- - =turbDyMFoam= \rightarrow =pimpleDyMFoam=.
- - =rhoTurbFoam=, =coodles= \rightarrow =rhoPisoFoam=.
- - =xoodles= \rightarrow absorbed into =XiFoam=.
- - =buoyantFoam=, =lesBuoyantFoam= \rightarrow =buoyantPisoFoam=.
- - =interFoam=, =rasInterFoam=, =lesInterFoam= \rightarrow =interFoam=.
- - =lesCavitatingFoam=, =rasCavitatingFoam= \rightarrow =cavitatingFoam=.
- + Solvers which support LES only:
- - =channelOodles= \rightarrow =channelFoam= (LES).
-
-* General changes
- + =pd= replaced by static pressure =p=. All solvers in which buoyancy affects
- might be strong have been converted from using =pd= to =p= with improved
- numerics to give equally good accuracy and stability. This change is
- prompted by the need to remove the confusion surrounding the meaning and
- purpose of =pd=.
-
- + =g= (acceleration due to gravity) is now a *new*
- =uniformDimensionedVectorField= which has the behaviour of a field, is
- registered to an =objectRegistry=, but stores only a single value. Thus
- =g= and other =UniformDimensionedFields= can be created and looked-up
- elsewhere in the code, /e.g./ in =fvPatchFields=.
-
-** Solver control improvements
- Use dictionary entries instead of an =Istream= for the solver controls.
- + This Allows dictionary substitutions and regular expressions in
- /system/fvSolution/.
- + The old solver control syntax is still supported (warning emitted), but
- the *new* =foamUpgradeFvSolution= utility can be used to convert
- /system/fvSolution/ to the new format.
-
-* Tutorial restructuring
- to reflect solver application structure.
-
-* *New* Solvers
- + =buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam= Steady state heat transfer solver using a
- Boussinesq approximation for buoyancy, with laminar, RAS or LES turbulence
- modelling.
- + =buoyantBoussinesqPisoFoam= Transient heat transfer solver using a
- Boussinesq approximation for buoyancy, with laminar, RAS or LES turbulence
- modelling.
- + =coalChemistryFoam= Transient, reacting lagrangian solver, employing a coal
- cloud and a thermo cloud, with chemistry, and laminar, RAS or LES turbulence
- modelling.
- + =porousExplicitSourceReactingParcelFoam= Transient, reacting lagrangian
- solver, employing a single phase reacting cloud, with porous media, explicit
- mass sources, and laminar, RAS or LES turbulence modelling.
- + =rhoReactingFoam= Density-based thermodynamics variant of the reactingFoam
- solver, i.e. now applicable to liquid systems.
- + =dsmcFoam= DSMC (Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo) solver for rarefied gas
- dynamics simulations, able to simulate mixtures of an arbitrary number of
- gas species. The variable hard sphere collision model with Larsen-Borgnakke
- internal energy redistribution (see "Molecular Gas Dynamics and the Direct
- Simulation of Gas Flows" G.A. Bird, 1994) is available; other run-time
- selectable collision models can be easily added.
-
-* Updated solvers
- + =mdFoam= Molecular Dynamics (MD) solver able to simulate a mixture of an
- arbitrary number of mono-atomic and small, rigid polyatomic (i.e. H2O, N2)
- molecular species, with 6 degree of freedom motion, in complex geometries. A
- molecule of any species can be built by specifying its sites of mass and
- charge. All molecules interact with short-range dispersion forces and
- pairwise electrostatic interactions using methods described in: Fennell and
- Gezelter, J. Chem. Phys. 124, 234104 (2006).
- + =mdEquilibrationFoam= Similar to mdFoam, but employs velocity scaling to
- adjust the simulation temperature to a target value. Useful to equilibrate a
- case before simulation.
- + =chtMultiRegionFoam= New boundary condition allows independent decomposition
- of coupled regions without any constraint on the decomposition.
-
-* Post-processing
- + Sampling on iso-surfaces, interpolated or non-interpolated.
- + Sampling on surface defined by distance to surface (=distanceSurface=).
- + Cutting planes for arbitrary meshes.
- + Output to any surface geometry format supported by the =surfMesh= library.
-
-*** Function objects
-
-***** Improvements for function objects and time-looping
- + The =functionObjectList= retains the order of the =functionObject=
- order, which allows a chaining of operations. It is thus internally more
- efficient when /system/controlDict/ uses =functions {..}= instead of
- =functions (..)=, but both forms are supported.
- + The =functionObject= now has an additional =end()= method that is called
- when =Time::loop()= or =Time::run()= determine that the time-loop exits.
- Accordingly, one of these two idioms should be used in solver code:
- 1. =while (runTime.loop() { ... }=,
- 2. =while (runTime.run()) { runTime++; ... }=.
- + *New* =functionObjectList= now tracks the SHA1 message digest of the
- sub-directories. This avoids reloading a =functionObject= when
- something unrelated in /system/controlDict/ changed.
-
-***** *New* function objects:
- + =systemCall= - executes a list of system instructions.
- + =fieldMinMax= - computes the min/max of a <field>.
- + =staticPressure= - converts kinematic pressure to static pressure.
- + =dsmcFields= - calculates intensive fields (velocity and temperature)
- from averaged extensive fields (i.e. momentum and energy).
-
-***** Usage
- + Improved output control: =timeStep= or =outputTime=.
+* Solvers
+*** Solver restructuring
+ The upgrade to the turbulence models means that the simulation type, i.e.
+ laminar, RAS or LES can be selected at run time. This has allowed a reduction
+ in the number of solvers, simplifying the overall code structure
+ + Solvers which support laminar, RAS and LES:
+ - =turbFoam=, =oodles= \rightarrow =pisoFoam=.
+ - =turbDyMFoam= \rightarrow =pimpleDyMFoam=.
+ - =rhoTurbFoam=, =coodles= \rightarrow =rhoPisoFoam=.
+ - =xoodles= \rightarrow absorbed into =XiFoam=.
+ - =buoyantFoam=, =lesBuoyantFoam= \rightarrow =buoyantPisoFoam=.
+ - =interFoam=, =rasInterFoam=, =lesInterFoam= \rightarrow =interFoam=.
+ - =lesCavitatingFoam=, =rasCavitatingFoam= \rightarrow =cavitatingFoam=.
+ + Solvers which support LES only:
+ - =channelOodles= \rightarrow =channelFoam= (LES).
+ + =pd= replaced by static pressure =p=. All solvers in which buoyancy affects
+ might be strong have been converted from using =pd= to =p= with improved
+ numerics to give equally good accuracy and stability. This change is
+ prompted by the need to remove the confusion surrounding the meaning and
+ purpose of =pd=.
+ + =g= (acceleration due to gravity) is now a *new*
+ =uniformDimensionedVectorField= which has the behaviour of a field, is
+ registered to an =objectRegistry=, but stores only a single value. Thus
+ =g= and other =UniformDimensionedFields= can be created and looked-up
+ elsewhere in the code, /e.g./ in =fvPatchFields=.
+
+*** Solver control improvements
+ Now uses consistent dictionary entries for the solver controls.
+ + This Allows dictionary substitutions and regular expressions in
+ /system/fvSolution/.
+ + The old solver control syntax is still supported (warning emitted), but
+ the *new* =foamUpgradeFvSolution= utility can be used to convert
+ /system/fvSolution/ to the new format.
+
+*** *New* Solvers
+ + =buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam= Steady state heat transfer solver using a
+ Boussinesq approximation for buoyancy, with laminar, RAS or LES turbulence
+ modelling.
+ + =buoyantBoussinesqPisoFoam= Transient heat transfer solver using a
+ Boussinesq approximation for buoyancy, with laminar, RAS or LES turbulence
+ modelling.
+ + =coalChemistryFoam= Transient, reacting lagrangian solver, employing a coal
+ cloud and a thermo cloud, with chemistry, and laminar, RAS or LES turbulence
+ modelling.
+ + =porousExplicitSourceReactingParcelFoam= Transient, reacting lagrangian
+ solver, employing a single phase reacting cloud, with porous media, explicit
+ mass sources, and laminar, RAS or LES turbulence modelling.
+ + =rhoReactingFoam= Density-based thermodynamics variant of the reactingFoam
+ solver, i.e. now applicable to liquid systems.
+ + =dsmcFoam= DSMC (Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo) solver for rarefied gas
+ dynamics simulations, able to simulate mixtures of an arbitrary number of
+ gas species. The variable hard sphere collision model with Larsen-Borgnakke
+ internal energy redistribution (see "Molecular Gas Dynamics and the Direct
+ Simulation of Gas Flows" G.A. Bird, 1994) is available; other run-time
+ selectable collision models can be easily added.
+
+*** Updated solvers
+ + =mdFoam= Molecular Dynamics (MD) solver able to simulate a mixture of an
+ arbitrary number of mono-atomic and small, rigid polyatomic (i.e. H2O, N2)
+ molecular species, with 6 degree of freedom motion, in complex geometries. A
+ molecule of any species can be built by specifying its sites of mass and
+ charge. All molecules interact with short-range dispersion forces and
+ pairwise electrostatic interactions using methods described in: Fennell and
+ Gezelter, J. Chem. Phys. 124, 234104 (2006).
+ + =mdEquilibrationFoam= Similar to mdFoam, but employs velocity scaling to
+ adjust the simulation temperature to a target value. Useful to equilibrate a
+ case before simulation.
+ + =chtMultiRegionFoam= New boundary condition allows independent decomposition
+ of coupled regions without any constraint on the decomposition.
* Boundary conditions
+ Improved set of direct mapped boundary conditions.
@@ -356,6 +319,41 @@
Only creates (and removes) /.OpenFOAM/ files if they didn't already
exist, which is useful in connection with the =-touch= option.
+* Post-processing
+ + Sampling on iso-surfaces, interpolated or non-interpolated.
+ + Sampling on surface defined by distance to surface (=distanceSurface=).
+ + Cutting planes for arbitrary meshes.
+ + Output to any surface geometry format supported by the =surfMesh= library.
+
+*** Function objects
+
+***** Improvements for function objects and time-looping
+ + The =functionObjectList= retains the order of the =functionObject=
+ order, which allows a chaining of operations. It is thus internally more
+ efficient when /system/controlDict/ uses =functions {..}= instead of
+ =functions (..)=, but both forms are supported.
+ + The =functionObject= now has an additional =end()= method that is called
+ when =Time::loop()= or =Time::run()= determine that the time-loop exits.
+ Accordingly, one of these two idioms should be used in solver code:
+ 1. =while (runTime.loop() { ... }=,
+ 2. =while (runTime.run()) { runTime++; ... }=.
+ + *New* =functionObjectList= now tracks the SHA1 message digest of the
+ sub-directories. This avoids reloading a =functionObject= when
+ something unrelated in /system/controlDict/ changed.
+
+***** *New* function objects:
+ + =systemCall= - executes a list of system instructions.
+ + =fieldMinMax= - computes the min/max of a <field>.
+ + =staticPressure= - converts kinematic pressure to static pressure.
+ + =dsmcFields= - calculates intensive fields (velocity and temperature)
+ from averaged extensive fields (i.e. momentum and energy).
+
+***** Usage
+ + Improved output control: =timeStep= or =outputTime=.
+
+* Tutorial restructuring
+ to reflect solver application structure.
+
* Third-party Software
+ =gcc= upgraded to version 4.3.3.
+ =OpenMPI= upgraded to version 1.3.3.