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sergio authored Feb 04, 2020 and Mattijs Janssens committed Feb 19, 2020

1) Adding interfaceHeight FO
2) Adding interfaceHeatResistance mass transfer model to
   interCondensatingEvaporatingFoam with spread source approach
3) Reworking framework for icoReactingMultiphaseInterFoam

Modified revert of commit 6c6f777b.

- The "alphaContactAngleFvPatchScalarField" occurs in several
  places in the code base:

    - as abstract class for two-phase properties
    - in various multiphase solvers

  To resolve potential linking conflicts, renamed the abstract class
  as "alphaContactAngleTwoPhaseFvPatchScalarField" instead.

  This permits potential linking of two-phase and multi-phase
  libraries without symbol conflicts and has no effect on concrete
  uses of two-phase alphaContactAngle boudary conditions.

- Eg, with surface writers now in surfMesh, there are fewer libraries
  depending on conversion and sampling.

COMP: regularize linkage ordering and avoid some implicit linkage (#1238)

- avoids unnecessary cyclic dependency

fvOptions are transferred to the database on construction using
fv::options::New which returns a reference.  The same function can be
use for construction and lookup so that fvOptions are now entirely
demand-driven.

The abstract base-classes for fvOptions now reside in the finiteVolume
library simplifying compilation and linkage.  The concrete
implementations of fvOptions are still in the single monolithic
fvOptions library but in the future this will be separated into smaller
libraries based on application area which may be linked at run-time in
the same manner as functionObjects.

The old separate incompressible and compressible libraries have been removed.

Most of the commonly used RANS and LES models have been upgraded to the
new framework but there are a few missing which will be added over the
next few days, in particular the realizable k-epsilon model.  Some of
the less common incompressible RANS models have been introduced into the
new library instantiated for incompressible flow only.  If they prove to
be generally useful they can be templated for compressible and
multiphase application.

The Spalart-Allmaras DDES and IDDES models have been thoroughly
debugged, removing serious errors concerning the use of S rather than
Omega.

The compressible instances of the models have been augmented by a simple
backward-compatible eddyDiffusivity model for thermal transport based on
alphat and alphaEff.  This will be replaced with a separate run-time
selectable thermal transport model framework in a few weeks.

For simplicity and ease of maintenance and further development the
turbulent transport and wall modeling is based on nut/nuEff rather than
mut/muEff for compressible models so that all forms of turbulence models
can use the same wall-functions and other BCs.

All turbulence model selection made in the constant/turbulenceProperties
dictionary with RAS and LES as sub-dictionaries rather than in separate
files which added huge complexity for multiphase.

All tutorials have been updated so study the changes and update your own
cases by comparison with similar cases provided.

Sorry for the inconvenience in the break in backward-compatibility but
this update to the turbulence modeling is an essential step in the
future of OpenFOAM to allow more models to be added and maintained for a
wider range of cases and physics.  Over the next weeks and months more
turbulence models will be added of single and multiphase flow, more
additional sub-models and further development and testing of existing
models.  I hope this brings benefits to all OpenFOAM users.

Henry G. Weller

interPhaseChangeFoam: corrected handling of alpha1 for transport and updated for consistency with interFoam

Multiphase: Update all solvers to accommodate the split between twoPhaseMixture and incompressibleTwoPhaseMixture