- the default (uninitialised) value for edge connections of -1
  could be confused with a tagged finiteArea patch, which used
  (-patchid-1) encoding. This would lead to messages about erroneous
  processor-processor addressing, but is in fact an mismatched edge
  connection.

  Now tag the finiteArea patch as (-patchid-2) to avoid this ambiguity
  and correctly generate an "Undefined connection:" message instead.

  Properly flush the VTP writers before raising a FatalError
  to ensure that they are not prematurely truncated.

Open Point:

  The base problem of "Undefined connection:" is largely related to
  multiply-connected face edges (ie, from the underlying volume mesh).
  Not easily remedied in the finiteArea generation.

TUT: basic finiteArea setup on motorBike

- separate broadcast times from reduce/gather/scatter time
- separate wait times from all-to-all time
- support invocation counts, split off requests time/count
  from others to avoid flooding the counts

- support 'detail' switch to increase the output information.
  Format may change in the future

- functionality similar to that provided by foamToEnsight, foamToVTK
  which allows blocking out patches (eg, outer walls, inlet/outlet)
  that are not particularly interesting to visualize

- barycentric coordinates in interpolation (instead of x/y/z)

- ease U (velocity) requirement.
  Needn't be named in the sampled fields.

- default tracking direction is 'forward'

- simpler to write for sampled cutting planes etc.
  For example,

      slice
      {
          type        cuttingPlane;
          point       (0 0 0);
          normal      (0 0 1);
          interpolate true;
      }

  instead of

      slice
      {
          type        cuttingPlane;
          planeType   pointAndNormal;
          pointAndNormalDict
          {
              point   (0 0 0);
              normal  (0 0 1);
          }
          interpolate true;
      }

STYLE: add noexcept to some plane methods

Mark OLESEN authored 3 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 3 years ago

- the internal data are contiguous so can broadcast size and internals
  directly without an intermediate stream.

ENH: split out broadcast time for profilingPstream information

STYLE: minor Pstream cleanup

- UPstream::commsType_ from protected to private, since it already has
  inlined noexcept getters/setters that should be used.

- don't pass unused/unneed tag into low-level MPI reduction templates.
  Document where tags are not needed

- had Pstream::broadcast instead of UPstream::broadcast in internals

Minor clean-up

- use simpler decomposeParDict in tutorials, several had old
  'boilerplate' decomposeParDict

- use simpler libs () format

- update surface sampling to use dictionary format

Kutalmış Berçin authored 5 years ago and Andrew Heather committed 4 years ago

  ENH: update libs of etc/caseDicts/postProcess items
  ENH: ensure destructor=default
  ENH: ensure constness
  ENH: ensure no 'copy construct' and 'no copy assignment' exist
  TUT: add examples of function objects with full set
       of settings into a TUT if unavailable
  TUT: update pisoFoam/RAS/cavity tutorial in terms of usage

- useful for post-processing and data conversion tests

- no stderr redirect needed:
    * 'command -v'

- no stdout/stderr redirect needed:
    * 'rm -f'

STYLE: consistent spacing after redirects

- prevents accidental overwrite of runtime conversions.

- canonical parameter name changed from "minMedianAxisAngle" to
  "minMedialAxisAngle" (DEC-2013), but was never previously reported
  as having changed.

- improve doxygen entries for searchable surfaces.

- support selection of searchable surfaces with shorter names.
  Eg,
      type   box | cylinder | ...;
  vs  type   searchableBox | searchableCylinder | ...;

  Within decomposeParDict, it is now possible to specify a different
  decomposition method, methods coefficients or number of subdomains
  for each region individually.

  The top-level numberOfSubdomains remains mandatory, since this
  specifies the number of domains for the entire simulation.
  The individual regions may use the same number or fewer domains.

  Any optional method coefficients can be specified in a general
  "coeffs" entry or a method-specific one, eg "metisCoeffs".

  For multiLevel, only the method-specific "multiLevelCoeffs" dictionary
  is used, and is also mandatory.

----

ENH: shortcut specification for multiLevel.

  In addition to the longer dictionary form, it is also possible to
  use a shorter notation for multiLevel decomposition when the same
  decomposition method applies to each level.