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Community contribution from Johan Roenby, DHI

IsoAdvector is a geometric Volume-of-Fluid method for advection of a
sharp interface between two incompressible fluids. It works on both
structured and unstructured meshes with no requirements on cell shapes.
IsoAdvector is as an alternative choice for the interface compression
treatment with the MULES limiter implemented in the interFoam family
of solvers.

The isoAdvector concept and code was developed at DHI and was funded
by a Sapere Aude postdoc grant to Johan Roenby from The Danish Council
for Independent Research | Technology and Production Sciences (Grant-ID:
DFF - 1337-00118B - FTP).
Co-funding is also provided by the GTS grant to DHI from the Danish
Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.

The ideas behind and performance of the isoAdvector scheme is
documented in:

    Roenby J, Bredmose H, Jasak H. 2016 A computational method for sharp
    interface  advection. R. Soc. open sci. 3: 160405.
    [http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160405](http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160405)

Videos showing isoAdvector's performance with a number of standard
test cases can be found in this youtube channel:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6Idpv4C8TTgz1iUX0prAA

Project contributors:

* Johan Roenby <jro@dhigroup.com> (Inventor and main developer)
* Hrvoje Jasak <hrvoje.jasak@fsb.hr> (Consistent treatment of
  boundary faces including processor boundaries, parallelisation,
  code clean up
* Henrik Bredmose <hbre@dtu.dk> (Assisted in the conceptual
  development)
* Vuko Vukcevic <vuko.vukcevic@fsb.hr> (Code review, profiling,
  porting to foam-extend, bug fixing, testing)
* Tomislav Maric <tomislav@sourceflux.de> (Source file
  rearrangement)
* Andy Heather <a.heather@opencfd.co.uk> (Integration into OpenFOAM
  for v1706 release)

See the integration repository below to see the full set of changes
implemented for release into OpenFOAM v1706

    https://develop.openfoam.com/Community/Integration-isoAdvector
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