diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 0d75117ff..1e5b40ee8 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -17,26 +17,30 @@ ################################################################################ ** Overview - The foam-extend project is a fork of the OpenFOAM® open source library for - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It is an open project welcoming and - integrating contributions from all users and developers. Previously known as - OpenFOAM®-dev and OpenFOAM®-extend, it contains bug fixes and performance - improvements, as well as extensions and additional features provided - by community contributors (see file ListOfContributors), such as dynamic mesh - and topological change support, turbomachinery extensions including general - grid interpolation (GGI), cyclic GGI and mixing plane, block-coupled matrix - support, finite area method, comprehensive mesh motion capability and GPU - support. For a full list, see below and previous release notes at: + The foam-extend project is a fork of the OpenFOAM® open source + library for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It is an open + project welcoming and integrating contributions from all users and + developers. Previously known as OpenFOAM®-dev and OpenFOAM®-extend, + it contains bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as + extensions and additional features provided by community + contributors (see file ListOfContributors), such as dynamic mesh and + topological change support, turbomachinery extensions including + general grid interpolation (GGI), cyclic GGI and mixing plane, + block-coupled matrix support, implicitly coupled conjugate heat + transfer and other pyshics coupling, finite area method, + comprehensive dynamic mesh (motion and topological changes) + capability and GPU support. For a full list, see below and previous + release notes at: http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-extend/wiki/Home/ - Version 3.1, nicknamed "Zagreb", is the current version of foam-extend. The - release continues the tradition and spirit of the original FOAM code - developed by prof. Jasak and Mr. Weller during their time at - Imperial College and released as the general purpose CFD/CCM package by - Nabla Ltd. in 2000. In this spirit, we reverted 18 December 2013 to the - original numbering scheme (foam-2.3.2, 13 December 2004) as release - number 3.0. - Visit http://foam-extend.org for more information. + Version 3.1, nicknamed "Zagreb", is the current version of + foam-extend. The release continues the tradition and spirit of the + original FOAM code developed by prof. Jasak and Mr. Weller during + their time at Imperial College and released as the general purpose + CFD/CCM package by Nabla Ltd. in 2000. In this spirit, we reverted + 18 December 2013 to the original numbering scheme (foam-2.3.2, 13 + December 2004) as release number 3.0. Visit http://foam-extend.org + for more information. OPENFOAM® is a registered trademark of ESI Group. OpenFOAM-extend and foam-extend are a community effort not endorsed by ESI Group. @@ -168,6 +172,9 @@ * Automatic test harness + * Approximately 6000 bug fixes in fundamental level libraries and + discretisation techniques + ** New features in foam-extend-3.1, since foam-extend-3.0 The list of features is a result of the work of numerous contributors. The maintainers of foam-extend would formally like to @@ -187,6 +194,13 @@ user@machine> git log 3.0.. > commitLog * Major new features: - Pressure-based compressible turbo functionalities - Pressure-based coupled solver (block-coupling p and U) + - Density-based coupled Roe flux solver dbnsFoam and dbnsTurbFoam + - major update and validation of mixing plane boundary + - full deploymenr of block matrix, including block-AMG solverse + - further parallel dynamic mesh capability: all topological changes + supported in parallel execution + - major upgrade of solid mechanics solvers + - support for CLang-based compilers * Licence: GPLv3 @@ -235,9 +249,9 @@ user@machine> git log 3.0.. > commitLog - thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/temperatureDirectedInletOutletVelocity - fvMesh/fvPatches/constraint/mixingPlane - Turbulence modeling: - - Removed kOmegaSST_lowRe - USE WHAT INSTEAD??? + - Removed kOmegaSST_lowRe - use standard kOmegaSST - - Tutorial updates (settings, initial conditions, bug fixes etc.): + * Tutorial updates (settings, initial conditions, bug fixes etc.): - incompressible/icoDyMFoam/mixerGgi - incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeMotion - incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeTopo @@ -271,7 +285,14 @@ user@machine> git log 3.0.. > commitLog - mesh/moveDynamicMesh/movingCylinders * Bug fixes: - LinearUpwind no longer hangs in parallel execution on empty patches + - Correct snGrad on coupled boundaries + - handling of static null pointers: safe to dereference + - LinearUpwind no longer hangs in parallel execution on empty patches + - mesh update on parallel topo changes: zones before boundaries + - GGI interpolation updates on topologically changing meshes + - cell layering issues off complex surfaces + - template depth for block matrix support + - parallel efficiency improvements ** Recent sucessful compilations and tests * Ubuntu 14.04: @@ -286,14 +307,22 @@ user@machine> git log 3.0.. > commitLog http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=734 - * Mac OX X & CLang: + * Mac OX X 10.9.3 Maverick & CLang (XCode compiler): http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=733 - * Mac OX X & gcc + * Mac OX X & gcc (Macports) http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=737 + * Linux PPC ppc64 (Blue Gene) + + http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=742 + + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga), Intel CC 11.1 + + http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=743 + ** Reporting bugs To report bugs, please use the MantisBT bugtracker at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/openfoam-extend diff --git a/ReleaseNotes.html b/ReleaseNotes.html index aa8148775..9f4647a40 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@