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#+AUTHOR: Håkan Nilsson
#+AUTHOR: Henrik Rusche
#+AUTHOR: Martin Beaudoin
#+AUTHOR: Bernhard Gschaider
#+DATE: 8 June 2014
#+LINK: http://foam-extend.org
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** 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:
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.
OPENFOAM® is a registered trademark of ESI Group. OpenFOAM-extend and
foam-extend are a community effort not endorsed by ESI Group.
** Installation
foam-extend-3.1 can be compiled and runs on any linux system
* Main supported OSs:
- Ubuntu 14.04
- Fedora 20
- Mac OS X
* Compile from source:
Please refer to doc/buildInstructions/ for details. Further
installation instruction are available on the unofficial OpenFOAM
Wiki:
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux/foam-extend-3.0
If you have improvements or build instructions for a new system,
please share them with the community (see section "How to
contribute", below).
* Download binary packages:
Binary packages are available for download at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/ for the following
systems: Ubuntu 14.04, Fedora 20 and Mac OS X.
* Accompanying ThirdParty software:
- gcc compatibility up to 4.8.2
- Paraview 4.0.1
- qt 4.8.5
- openmpi 1.6.5
- cmake 2.8.12
- metis 5.1.0
- parmetis 4.0.3
- scotch 6.0.0
- ParMGridGen 1.0
- mesquite 2.1.2
- PyFoam 0.6.3
- swak4Foam 0.3.1
- zoltan 3.6
- bison 2.7
- hwloc 1.7.2
- libccmio 2.6.1
** Compatibility
Upstream features from the OpenFOAM® code base are merged into
foam-extend on regular basis. The interface format of
foam-extend-3.1 is largely compatible to OpenFOAM-1.6-ext and
OpenFOAM-1.7.x. In some cases, the differences are caused by bug
fixes and algorithmic improvements, considered more important than
inter-operability.
** Main differentiators between foam-extend and OpenFOAM
A large number of features have been lost within the release of
OpenFOAM since version 1.3, the code base has shrunk by more than
40%. While we understand the lack of technical ability of
supporting advanced CFD features, we feel that existing features and
specifically large-scale contributions should remain active and
developed further. Below is a list of main features of foam-extend
which are lacking, lost, deactivated or unusable in ESI releases:
* Turbomachinery features, including General Grid Interface (GGI),
partial overlap GGI, cyclic GGI, with improvements in parallel
scaling. First release of a mixing plane stage interface
* Dynamic mesh with topological changes Sliding interfaces, mesh
layering, attach-detach boundaries etc. In foam-extend, full
parallel support for topological changes is released for the first
time
* Finite Element Method with support for polyhedral meshes This is
mainly used in mesh deformation and over the last 15 years it has
proven vastly superior to all other dynamic mesh methods.
* Advanced mesh deformation technology Including tet FEM mesh
deformation, Radial Basis Function (RBF) mesh deformation,
tetrahedral remeshing dynamic mesh support and solid body motion
functions. All of the above include parallelisation support
* Library of dynamic meshes with topological changes with full
second order FVM discretisation support on moving meshes with
topological changes
* Internal combustion engine-specific dynamic mesh classes such as
two-stroke engine and various forms of 4-stroke and multi-valve
dynamic mesh classes
* Finite Area Method providing support for FVM-like discretisation
on a curved surface in 3-D, with examples of liquid film modelling
* Block-coupled matrix support, allowing fully implicit
multi-equation solution of NxN equation sets, with full
parallelisation support. First release of a block-AMG linear
equation solver
* Fully implicit conjugate-coupled solution framework, allowing
implicit solution fo multiple equations over multiple meshes, with
parallelism
* Proper Orthogonal Decomposition data analysis tools, with
applications to FOAM field classes
* Equation reader classes and tutorials
* Multi-solver solution framework, allowing multiple field models to
be solved in a coupled manner
* A major contribution is solid mechanics modelling, including
linear and non-linear materials, contact, self-contact and
friction, with updated Lagrangian or absolute Lagrangian
formulation. Solution of damage models and crack propagation in
complex materials via topological changes
* CUDA solver release, provided in full source and as an example of
coupling external linear equation solvers with FOAM
* Library-level support for Immersed Boundary Method and Overset
Mesh
* Major improvements in accuracy and stability of FVM discretisation
with options on convection and diffusion discretisation, deferred
correction or explicit schemes
* Algebraic multigrid solver framework
* 210 tutorials with automated run scripts
* Automatic test harness
** 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
thank them all.
Get a full log of the updates by (either):
#+BEGIN_SRC bash
user@machine> git log 3.0.. > commitLog
#+END_SRC
#+BEGIN_SRC bash
user@machine> git log 3.0.. --oneline > commitLog
#+END_SRC
#+BEGIN_SRC bash
user@machine> gitg 3.0..
#+END_SRC
* Major new features:
- Pressure-based compressible turbo functionalities
- Pressure-based coupled solver (block-coupling p and U)
* Licence: GPLv3
* Installation:
- Updated and bug-fixed installation procedures
- Removed need for gmake link in Ubuntu
- Scripts for minimizing installation after compilation
- ThirdParty/Allclean alsoPackage - new option
- wcleanAllButLibBinLnInclude
- Fixed problem with ParaView reader for Ubuntu 14.04
- foamToTecplot360: building tecio doesn't require X.org
development files
* Solvers:
- compressible/dbnsFoam
- compressible/dbnsTurbFoam
- compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam
- compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam
- compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam
- coupled/pUCoupledFoam (incl. core library changes)
- Update and cleanup of solvers/solidMechanics
- Update for segregated FEM matrix,
solvers/solidMechanics/stressFemFoam
* Utilities:
- convertPhi (for steadyCompressible solvers)
- foamMeshToElmer, fluent3DMeshToElmer
- transformPoints -cylToCart "origin axis direction" - new option
- blockMesh syntax update (see commit a78b12074)
* Libraries:
- General:
- Added Gauss-Seidel as asymmetric solver
- Block matrix agglomeration (for pUCoupledFoam)
- Block AMG solver
- dbns library (src/dbns)
- Boundary conditions:
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFFlowRateInletVelocity
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFSurfaceNormalVelocity
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFTotalPressure
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFTotalTemperature
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/pulseFixedValue
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/waveTransmissiveInlet
- thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/isentropicTotalTemperature
- thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/temperatureDirectedInletOutletVelocity
- fvMesh/fvPatches/constraint/mixingPlane
- Turbulence modeling:
- Removed kOmegaSST_lowRe - USE WHAT INSTEAD???
- Tutorial updates (settings, initial conditions, bug fixes etc.):
- incompressible/icoDyMFoam/mixerGgi
- incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeMotion
- incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeTopo
- solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/largeStrainCantileverBeam
- solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/nonLinBlock
- solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/rotateSphereTL
- solidMechanics/elasticThermalSolidFoam/hotCylinder
- solidMechanics/stressFemFoam/plateHole
- Many other updates due to blockMesh syntax update
* New tutorials:
- compressible/dbnsFoam/forwardStep
- compressible/dbnsFoam/shockTube
- compressible/dbnsTurbFoam/naca0012
- compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/2bump
- compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/bumpBlockMesh
- compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/bumpFine05
- compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam/bentRotorStator
- compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam/simpleRotorStator
- compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam/bentBlade
- compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam/simpleBlade
- coupled/pUCoupledFoam/cavity
- incompressible/MRFSimpleFoam/axialTurbine_ggi
- incompressible/MRFSimpleFoam/axialTurbine_mixingPlane
- incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/axialTurbine
- incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/movingCylinders
- incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/backwardFacingStepLaminar
- incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/backwardFacingStepTurbulent
- incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/cavity
- incompressible/simpleSRFFoam/axialTurbine
- mesh/moveDynamicMesh/movingCylinders
* Bug fixes:
LinearUpwind no longer hangs in parallel execution on empty patches
** Recent sucessful compilations and tests
* Ubuntu 14.04:
http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=736
* Ubuntu 12.04:
http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=738
* CentOS 6.4:
http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=734
* Mac OX X & CLang:
http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=733
* Mac OX X & gcc
http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=737
** Reporting bugs
To report bugs, please use the MantisBT bugtracker at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/openfoam-extend
** How to contribute
All your contributions are highly welcome: New solvers, utilities and
models; bug fixes; documentation. The many ways of contributing and the
contribution process are described in detail in the file "HowToContribute"
and at http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-extend/wiki/Home/
** List of Contributors:
See file ListOfContributors

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# -*- mode: org; -*-
#
#+TITLE: *Release notes for foam-extend-3.1*
#+AUTHOR: foam-extend administrators:
#+AUTHOR: Hrvoje Jasak
#+AUTHOR: Håkan Nilsson
#+AUTHOR: Henrik Rusche
#+AUTHOR: Martin Beaudoin
#+AUTHOR: Bernhard Gschaider
#+DATE: 8 June 2014
#+LINK: http://foam-extend.org
#+OPTIONS: author:nil
################################################################################
Contents:
* Overview
* Installation
* Compatibility
* Main differentiators compared to OpenFOAM
* New features in foam-extend-3.1, since foam-extend-3.0
* Reporting bugs
* How to contribute
* List of Contributors
################################################################################
* 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:
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.
OPENFOAM® is a registered trademark of ESI Group. OpenFOAM-extend and
foam-extend are a community effort not endorsed by ESI Group.
* Installation
foam-extend-3.1 can be compiled and runs on any linux system
Main supported OSs:
Ubuntu 14.04
Mac OS X
** Compile from source:
Please refer to doc/buildInstructions/ for details. Further
installation instruction are available on the unofficial OpenFOAM Wiki:
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux/foam-extend-3.0
If you have improvements or build instructions for a new system, please
share them with the community (see section "How to contribute", below).
** Download binary packages:
Binary packages are available for download at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/
for the following systems: Ubuntu 14.04 and Fedora 20.
** Accompanying ThirdParty software:
gcc compatibility up to 4.8.2
Paraview 4.0.1
qt 4.8.5
openmpi 1.6.5
cmake 2.8.12
metis 5.1.0
parmetis 4.0.3
scotch 6.0.0
ParMGridGen 1.0
mesquite 2.1.2
PyFoam 0.6.3
swak4Foam 0.3.1
zoltan 3.6
bison 2.7
hwloc 1.7.2
libccmio 2.6.1
* Compatibility
Upstream features from the OpenFOAM® code base are merged into foam-extend
on regular basis. The interface format of foam-extend-3.1 is largely
compatible to OpenFOAM-1.6-ext and OpenFOAM-1.7.x. In some cases,
the differences are caused by bug fixes and algorithmic improvements,
considered more important than inter-operability.
* Main differentiators compared to OpenFOAM
A large number of features have been lost within the release of OpenFOAM
since version 1.3, the code base has shrunk by more than 40%. While
we understand the lack of technical ability of supporting advanced
CFD features, we feel that existing features and specifically large-scale
contributions should remain active and developed further. Below is a list
of main features of foam-extend which are lacking, lost, deactivated or
unusable in ESI releases:
** Turbomachinery features, including General Grid Interface (GGI),
partial overlap GGI, cyclic GGI, with improvements in parallel scaling.
First release of a mixing plane stage interface
** Dynamic mesh with topological changes
Sliding interfaces, mesh layering, attach-detach boundaries etc.
In foam-extend, full parallel support for topological changes
is released for the first time
** Finite Element Method with support for polyhedral meshes
This is mainly used in mesh deformation and over the last 15 years
it has proven vastly superior to all other dynamic mesh methods.
** Advanced mesh deformation technology
Including tet FEM mesh deformation, Radial Basis Function (RBF) mesh
deformation, tetrahedral remeshing dynamic mesh support and solid body
motion functions. All of the above include parallelisation support
** Library of dynamic meshes with topological changes with full
second order FVM discretisation support on moving meshes with
topological changes
** Internal combustion engine-specific dynamic mesh classes such as
two-stroke engine and various forms of 4-stroke and multi-valve
dynamic mesh classes
** Finite Area Method providing support for FVM-like discretisation on
a curved surface in 3-D, with examples of liquid film modelling
** Block-coupled matrix support, allowing fully implicit multi-equation
solution of NxN equation sets, with full parallelisation support.
First release of a block-AMG linear equation solver
** Fully implicit conjugate-coupled solution framework, allowing implicit
solution fo multiple equations over multiple meshes, with parallelism
** Proper Orthogonal Decomposition data analysis tools, with applications
to FOAM field classes
** Equation reader classes and tutorials
** Multi-solver solution framework, allowing multiple field models to be
solved in a coupled manner
** A major contribution is solid mechanics modelling, including linear
and non-linear materials, contact, self-contact and friction, with
updated Lagrangian or absolute Lagrangian formulation. Solution of
damage models and crack propagation in complex materials via
topological changes
** CUDA solver release, provided in full source and as an example of
coupling external linear equation solvers with FOAM
** Library-level support for Immersed Boundary Method and Overset Mesh
** Major improvements in accuracy and stability of FVM discretisation
with options on convection and diffusion discretisation, deferred
correction or explicit schemes
** Algebraic multigrid solver framework
** 210 tutorials with automated run scripts
** Automatic test harness
* 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 thank them all.
Get a full log of the updates by (either):
git log 3.0.. > commitLog
git log 3.0.. --oneline > commitLog
gitg 3.0..
Major new features:
Pressure-based compressible turbo functionalities
Pressure-based coupled solver (block-coupling p and U)
Licence:
Bumped to GPLv3
Installation:
Updated and bug-fixed installation procedures
Removed need for gmake link in Ubuntu
Scripts for minimizing installation after compilation
ThirdParty/Allclean alsoPackage - new option
wcleanAllButLibBinLnInclude
Fixed problem with ParaView reader for Ubuntu 14.04
foamToTecplot360: building tecio doesn't require X.org development files
Solvers:
compressible/dbnsFoam
compressible/dbnsTurbFoam
compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam
compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam
compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam
coupled/pUCoupledFoam (incl. core library changes)
---
Update and cleanup of solvers/solidMechanics
Update for segregated FEM matrix, solvers/solidMechanics/stressFemFoam
Utilities:
convertPhi (for steadyCompressible solvers)
fluent3DMeshToElmer
foamMeshToElmer
transformPoints -cylToCart "origin axis direction" - new option
blockMesh syntax backport (see commit a78b12074)
Libraries:
General:
Added Gauss-Seidel as asymmetric solver
Block matrix agglomeration (for pUCoupledFoam)
Block AMG solver
dbns library (src/dbns)
Boundary conditions:
cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFFlowRateInletVelocity
cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFSurfaceNormalVelocity*
cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFTotalPressure
cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFTotalTemperature
cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/pulseFixedValue
cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/waveTransmissiveInlet
thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/isentropicTotalTemperature
thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/temperatureDirectedInletOutletVelocity
Turbulence modeling:
Removed kOmegaSST_lowRe - USE WHAT INSTEAD???
Tutorial updates (settings, initial conditions, bug fixes etc.):
incompressible/icoDyMFoam/mixerGgi
incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeMotion
incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeTopo
solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/largeStrainCantileverBeam
solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/nonLinBlock
solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/rotateSphereTL
solidMechanics/elasticThermalSolidFoam/hotCylinder
solidMechanics/stressFemFoam/plateHole
Many other updates due to blockMesh backport
New tutorials:
compressible/dbnsFoam/forwardStep
compressible/dbnsFoam/shockTube
compressible/dbnsTurbFoam/naca0012
compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/2bump
compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/bumpBlockMesh
compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/bumpFine05
compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam/bentRotorStator
compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam/simpleRotorStator
compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam/bentBlade
compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam/simpleBlade
coupled/pUCoupledFoam/cavity
incompressible/MRFSimpleFoam/axialTurbine_ggi
incompressible/MRFSimpleFoam/axialTurbine_mixingPlane
incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/axialTurbine
incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/movingCylinders
incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/backwardFacingStepLaminar
incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/backwardFacingStepTurbulent
incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/cavity
incompressible/simpleSRFFoam/axialTurbine
mesh/moveDynamicMesh/movingCylinders
Bug fixes:
LinearUpwind no longer hangs in parallel execution on empty patches
* Reporting bugs
To report bugs, please use the MantisBT bugtracker at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/openfoam-extend
* How to contribute
All your contributions are highly welcome: New solvers, utilities and
models; bug fixes; documentation. The many ways of contributing and the
contribution process are described in detail in the file "HowToContribute"
and at http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-extend/wiki/Home/
* List of Contributors:
See file ListOfContributors

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<h1 class="title"><b>Release notes for foam-extend-3.1</b></h1>
<div id="table-of-contents">
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<div id="text-table-of-contents">
<ul>
<li><a href="#sec-1">1. Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-2">2. Installation</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-3">3. Compatibility</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-4">4. Main differentiators between foam-extend and OpenFOAM</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-5">5. New features in foam-extend-3.1, since foam-extend-3.0</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-6">6. Recent sucessful compilations and tests</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-7">7. Reporting bugs</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-8">8. How to contribute</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-9">9. List of Contributors:</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<p>
################################################################################
</p>
<div id="outline-container-sec-1" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Overview</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
<p>
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:
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-extend/wiki/Home/">http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-extend/wiki/Home/</a>
</p>
<p>
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 <a href="http://foam-extend.org">http://foam-extend.org</a> for more information.
</p>
<p>
OPENFOAM® is a registered trademark of ESI Group. OpenFOAM-extend and
foam-extend are a community effort not endorsed by ESI Group.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-sec-2" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Installation</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
<p>
foam-extend-3.1 can be compiled and runs on any linux system
</p>
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Main supported OSs:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Ubuntu 14.04
</li>
<li>Fedora 20
</li>
<li>Mac OS X
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Compile from source:
<p>
Please refer to doc/buildInstructions/ for details. Further
installation instruction are available on the unofficial OpenFOAM
Wiki:
<a href="http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux/foam-extend-3.0">http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux/foam-extend-3.0</a>
If you have improvements or build instructions for a new system,
please share them with the community (see section "How to
contribute", below).
</p>
</li>
<li>Download binary packages:
<p>
Binary packages are available for download at
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/</a> for the following
systems: Ubuntu 14.04, Fedora 20 and Mac OS X.
</p>
</li>
<li>Accompanying ThirdParty software:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>gcc compatibility up to 4.8.2
</li>
<li>Paraview 4.0.1
</li>
<li>qt 4.8.5
</li>
<li>openmpi 1.6.5
</li>
<li>cmake 2.8.12
</li>
<li>metis 5.1.0
</li>
<li>parmetis 4.0.3
</li>
<li>scotch 6.0.0
</li>
<li>ParMGridGen 1.0
</li>
<li>mesquite 2.1.2
</li>
<li>PyFoam 0.6.3
</li>
<li>swak4Foam 0.3.1
</li>
<li>zoltan 3.6
</li>
<li>bison 2.7
</li>
<li>hwloc 1.7.2
</li>
<li>libccmio 2.6.1
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-sec-3" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Compatibility</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
<p>
Upstream features from the OpenFOAM® code base are merged into
foam-extend on regular basis. The interface format of
foam-extend-3.1 is largely compatible to OpenFOAM-1.6-ext and
OpenFOAM-1.7.x. In some cases, the differences are caused by bug
fixes and algorithmic improvements, considered more important than
inter-operability.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-sec-4" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-4"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Main differentiators between foam-extend and OpenFOAM</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
<p>
A large number of features have been lost within the release of
OpenFOAM since version 1.3, the code base has shrunk by more than
40%. While we understand the lack of technical ability of
supporting advanced CFD features, we feel that existing features and
specifically large-scale contributions should remain active and
developed further. Below is a list of main features of foam-extend
which are lacking, lost, deactivated or unusable in ESI releases:
</p>
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Turbomachinery features, including General Grid Interface (GGI),
partial overlap GGI, cyclic GGI, with improvements in parallel
scaling. First release of a mixing plane stage interface
</li>
<li>Dynamic mesh with topological changes Sliding interfaces, mesh
layering, attach-detach boundaries etc. In foam-extend, full
parallel support for topological changes is released for the first
time
</li>
<li>Finite Element Method with support for polyhedral meshes This is
mainly used in mesh deformation and over the last 15 years it has
proven vastly superior to all other dynamic mesh methods.
</li>
<li>Advanced mesh deformation technology Including tet FEM mesh
deformation, Radial Basis Function (RBF) mesh deformation,
tetrahedral remeshing dynamic mesh support and solid body motion
functions. All of the above include parallelisation support
</li>
<li>Library of dynamic meshes with topological changes with full
second order FVM discretisation support on moving meshes with
topological changes
</li>
<li>Internal combustion engine-specific dynamic mesh classes such as
two-stroke engine and various forms of 4-stroke and multi-valve
dynamic mesh classes
</li>
<li>Finite Area Method providing support for FVM-like discretisation
on a curved surface in 3-D, with examples of liquid film modelling
</li>
<li>Block-coupled matrix support, allowing fully implicit
multi-equation solution of NxN equation sets, with full
parallelisation support. First release of a block-AMG linear
equation solver
</li>
<li>Fully implicit conjugate-coupled solution framework, allowing
implicit solution fo multiple equations over multiple meshes, with
parallelism
</li>
<li>Proper Orthogonal Decomposition data analysis tools, with
applications to FOAM field classes
</li>
<li>Equation reader classes and tutorials
</li>
<li>Multi-solver solution framework, allowing multiple field models to
be solved in a coupled manner
</li>
<li>A major contribution is solid mechanics modelling, including
linear and non-linear materials, contact, self-contact and
friction, with updated Lagrangian or absolute Lagrangian
formulation. Solution of damage models and crack propagation in
complex materials via topological changes
</li>
<li>CUDA solver release, provided in full source and as an example of
coupling external linear equation solvers with FOAM
</li>
<li>Library-level support for Immersed Boundary Method and Overset
Mesh
</li>
<li>Major improvements in accuracy and stability of FVM discretisation
with options on convection and diffusion discretisation, deferred
correction or explicit schemes
</li>
<li>Algebraic multigrid solver framework
</li>
<li>210 tutorials with automated run scripts
</li>
<li>Automatic test harness
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-sec-5" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-5"><span class="section-number-2">5</span> New features in foam-extend-3.1, since foam-extend-3.0</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-5">
<p>
The list of features is a result of the work of numerous
contributors. The maintainers of foam-extend would formally like to
thank them all.
</p>
<p>
Get a full log of the updates by (either):
</p>
<div class="org-src-container">
<pre class="src src-bash">user@machine&gt; git log 3.0.. &gt; commitLog
</pre>
</div>
<div class="org-src-container">
<pre class="src src-bash">user@machine&gt; git log 3.0.. --oneline &gt; commitLog
</pre>
</div>
<div class="org-src-container">
<pre class="src src-bash">user@machine&gt; gitg 3.0..
</pre>
</div>
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Major new features:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Pressure-based compressible turbo functionalities
</li>
<li>Pressure-based coupled solver (block-coupling p and U)
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Licence: GPLv3
</li>
<li>Installation:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Updated and bug-fixed installation procedures
</li>
<li>Removed need for gmake link in Ubuntu
</li>
<li>Scripts for minimizing installation after compilation
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>ThirdParty/Allclean alsoPackage - new option
</li>
<li>wcleanAllButLibBinLnInclude
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Fixed problem with ParaView reader for Ubuntu 14.04
</li>
<li>foamToTecplot360: building tecio doesn't require X.org
development files
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Solvers:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>compressible/dbnsFoam
</li>
<li>compressible/dbnsTurbFoam
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam
</li>
<li>coupled/pUCoupledFoam (incl. core library changes)
</li>
<li>Update and cleanup of solvers/solidMechanics
</li>
<li>Update for segregated FEM matrix,
solvers/solidMechanics/stressFemFoam
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Utilities:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>convertPhi (for steadyCompressible solvers)
</li>
<li>foamMeshToElmer, fluent3DMeshToElmer
</li>
<li>transformPoints -cylToCart "origin axis direction" - new option
</li>
<li>blockMesh syntax update (see commit a78b12074)
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Libraries:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>General:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Added Gauss-Seidel as asymmetric solver
</li>
<li>Block matrix agglomeration (for pUCoupledFoam)
</li>
<li>Block AMG solver
</li>
<li>dbns library (src/dbns)
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Boundary conditions:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFFlowRateInletVelocity
</li>
<li>cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFSurfaceNormalVelocity
</li>
<li>cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFTotalPressure
</li>
<li>cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFTotalTemperature
</li>
<li>cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/pulseFixedValue
</li>
<li>cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/waveTransmissiveInlet
</li>
<li>thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/isentropicTotalTemperature
</li>
<li>thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/temperatureDirectedInletOutletVelocity
</li>
<li>fvMesh/fvPatches/constraint/mixingPlane
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Turbulence modeling:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Removed kOmegaSST_lowRe - USE WHAT INSTEAD???
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Tutorial updates (settings, initial conditions, bug fixes etc.):
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>incompressible/icoDyMFoam/mixerGgi
</li>
<li>incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeMotion
</li>
<li>incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeTopo
</li>
<li>solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/largeStrainCantileverBeam
</li>
<li>solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/nonLinBlock
</li>
<li>solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/rotateSphereTL
</li>
<li>solidMechanics/elasticThermalSolidFoam/hotCylinder
</li>
<li>solidMechanics/stressFemFoam/plateHole
</li>
<li>Many other updates due to blockMesh syntax update
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>New tutorials:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>compressible/dbnsFoam/forwardStep
</li>
<li>compressible/dbnsFoam/shockTube
</li>
<li>compressible/dbnsTurbFoam/naca0012
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/2bump
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/bumpBlockMesh
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/bumpFine05
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam/bentRotorStator
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam/simpleRotorStator
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam/bentBlade
</li>
<li>compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam/simpleBlade
</li>
<li>coupled/pUCoupledFoam/cavity
</li>
<li>incompressible/MRFSimpleFoam/axialTurbine_ggi
</li>
<li>incompressible/MRFSimpleFoam/axialTurbine_mixingPlane
</li>
<li>incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/axialTurbine
</li>
<li>incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/movingCylinders
</li>
<li>incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/backwardFacingStepLaminar
</li>
<li>incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/backwardFacingStepTurbulent
</li>
<li>incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/cavity
</li>
<li>incompressible/simpleSRFFoam/axialTurbine
</li>
<li>mesh/moveDynamicMesh/movingCylinders
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Bug fixes:
LinearUpwind no longer hangs in parallel execution on empty patches
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-sec-6" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-6"><span class="section-number-2">6</span> Recent sucessful compilations and tests</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-6">
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Ubuntu 14.04:
<p>
<a href="http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=736">http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=736</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>Ubuntu 12.04:
<p>
<a href="http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=738">http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=738</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>CentOS 6.4:
<p>
<a href="http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=734">http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=734</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>Mac OX X &amp; CLang:
<p>
<a href="http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=733">http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=733</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>Mac OX X &amp; gcc
<p>
<a href="http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=737">http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=737</a>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-sec-7" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-7"><span class="section-number-2">7</span> Reporting bugs</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-7">
<p>
To report bugs, please use the MantisBT bugtracker at
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/openfoam-extend">http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/openfoam-extend</a>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-sec-8" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-8"><span class="section-number-2">8</span> How to contribute</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-8">
<p>
All your contributions are highly welcome: New solvers, utilities and
models; bug fixes; documentation. The many ways of contributing and the
contribution process are described in detail in the file "HowToContribute"
and at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-extend/wiki/Home/">http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-extend/wiki/Home/</a>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-sec-9" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="sec-9"><span class="section-number-2">9</span> List of Contributors:</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-9">
<p>
See file ListOfContributors
</p>
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_____________________________________
*RELEASE NOTES FOR FOAM-EXTEND-3.1*
_____________________________________
8 June 2014
Table of Contents
_________________
1 Overview
2 Installation
3 Compatibility
4 Main differentiators between foam-extend and OpenFOAM
5 New features in foam-extend-3.1, since foam-extend-3.0
6 Recent sucessful compilations and tests
7 Reporting bugs
8 How to contribute
9 List of Contributors:
################################################################################
1 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:
[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.
OPENFOAM® is a registered trademark of ESI Group. OpenFOAM-extend and
foam-extend are a community effort not endorsed by ESI Group.
2 Installation
==============
foam-extend-3.1 can be compiled and runs on any linux system
* Main supported OSs:
- Ubuntu 14.04
- Fedora 20
- Mac OS X
* Compile from source:
Please refer to doc/buildInstructions/ for details. Further
installation instruction are available on the unofficial OpenFOAM
Wiki:
[http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux/foam-extend-3.0]
If you have improvements or build instructions for a new system,
please share them with the community (see section "How to
contribute", below).
* Download binary packages:
Binary packages are available for download at
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam-extend/] for the following
systems: Ubuntu 14.04, Fedora 20 and Mac OS X.
* Accompanying ThirdParty software:
- gcc compatibility up to 4.8.2
- Paraview 4.0.1
- qt 4.8.5
- openmpi 1.6.5
- cmake 2.8.12
- metis 5.1.0
- parmetis 4.0.3
- scotch 6.0.0
- ParMGridGen 1.0
- mesquite 2.1.2
- PyFoam 0.6.3
- swak4Foam 0.3.1
- zoltan 3.6
- bison 2.7
- hwloc 1.7.2
- libccmio 2.6.1
3 Compatibility
===============
Upstream features from the OpenFOAM® code base are merged into
foam-extend on regular basis. The interface format of foam-extend-3.1
is largely compatible to OpenFOAM-1.6-ext and OpenFOAM-1.7.x. In some
cases, the differences are caused by bug fixes and algorithmic
improvements, considered more important than inter-operability.
4 Main differentiators between foam-extend and OpenFOAM
=======================================================
A large number of features have been lost within the release of
OpenFOAM since version 1.3, the code base has shrunk by more than 40%.
While we understand the lack of technical ability of supporting
advanced CFD features, we feel that existing features and specifically
large-scale contributions should remain active and developed
further. Below is a list of main features of foam-extend which are
lacking, lost, deactivated or unusable in ESI releases:
* Turbomachinery features, including General Grid Interface (GGI),
partial overlap GGI, cyclic GGI, with improvements in parallel
scaling. First release of a mixing plane stage interface
* Dynamic mesh with topological changes Sliding interfaces, mesh
layering, attach-detach boundaries etc. In foam-extend, full
parallel support for topological changes is released for the first
time
* Finite Element Method with support for polyhedral meshes This is
mainly used in mesh deformation and over the last 15 years it has
proven vastly superior to all other dynamic mesh methods.
* Advanced mesh deformation technology Including tet FEM mesh
deformation, Radial Basis Function (RBF) mesh deformation,
tetrahedral remeshing dynamic mesh support and solid body motion
functions. All of the above include parallelisation support
* Library of dynamic meshes with topological changes with full second
order FVM discretisation support on moving meshes with topological
changes
* Internal combustion engine-specific dynamic mesh classes such as
two-stroke engine and various forms of 4-stroke and multi-valve
dynamic mesh classes
* Finite Area Method providing support for FVM-like discretisation on
a curved surface in 3-D, with examples of liquid film modelling
* Block-coupled matrix support, allowing fully implicit multi-equation
solution of NxN equation sets, with full parallelisation support.
First release of a block-AMG linear equation solver
* Fully implicit conjugate-coupled solution framework, allowing
implicit solution fo multiple equations over multiple meshes, with
parallelism
* Proper Orthogonal Decomposition data analysis tools, with
applications to FOAM field classes
* Equation reader classes and tutorials
* Multi-solver solution framework, allowing multiple field models to
be solved in a coupled manner
* A major contribution is solid mechanics modelling, including linear
and non-linear materials, contact, self-contact and friction, with
updated Lagrangian or absolute Lagrangian formulation. Solution of
damage models and crack propagation in complex materials via
topological changes
* CUDA solver release, provided in full source and as an example of
coupling external linear equation solvers with FOAM
* Library-level support for Immersed Boundary Method and Overset Mesh
* Major improvements in accuracy and stability of FVM discretisation
with options on convection and diffusion discretisation, deferred
correction or explicit schemes
* Algebraic multigrid solver framework
* 210 tutorials with automated run scripts
* Automatic test harness
5 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
thank them all.
Get a full log of the updates by (either):
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| user@machine> git log 3.0.. > commitLog
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| user@machine> git log 3.0.. --oneline > commitLog
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| user@machine> gitg 3.0..
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* Major new features:
- Pressure-based compressible turbo functionalities
- Pressure-based coupled solver (block-coupling p and U)
* Licence: GPLv3
* Installation:
- Updated and bug-fixed installation procedures
- Removed need for gmake link in Ubuntu
- Scripts for minimizing installation after compilation
- ThirdParty/Allclean alsoPackage - new option
- wcleanAllButLibBinLnInclude
- Fixed problem with ParaView reader for Ubuntu 14.04
- foamToTecplot360: building tecio doesn't require X.org development
files
* Solvers:
- compressible/dbnsFoam
- compressible/dbnsTurbFoam
- compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam
- compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam
- compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam
- coupled/pUCoupledFoam (incl. core library changes)
- Update and cleanup of solvers/solidMechanics
- Update for segregated FEM matrix,
solvers/solidMechanics/stressFemFoam
* Utilities:
- convertPhi (for steadyCompressible solvers)
- foamMeshToElmer, fluent3DMeshToElmer
- transformPoints -cylToCart "origin axis direction" - new option
- blockMesh syntax update (see commit a78b12074)
* Libraries:
- General:
- Added Gauss-Seidel as asymmetric solver
- Block matrix agglomeration (for pUCoupledFoam)
- Block AMG solver
- dbns library (src/dbns)
- Boundary conditions:
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFFlowRateInletVelocity
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFSurfaceNormalVelocity
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFTotalPressure
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/SRFTotalTemperature
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/pulseFixedValue
- cfdTools/general/SRF/derivedFvPatchFields/waveTransmissiveInlet
- thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/isentropicTotalTemperature
- thermophysicalModels/basic/derivedFvPatchFields/temperatureDirectedInletOutletVelocity
- fvMesh/fvPatches/constraint/mixingPlane
- Turbulence modeling:
- Removed kOmegaSST_lowRe - USE WHAT INSTEAD???
- Tutorial updates (settings, initial conditions, bug fixes etc.):
- incompressible/icoDyMFoam/mixerGgi
- incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeMotion
- incompressible/icoDyMFoam/movingConeTopo
- solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/largeStrainCantileverBeam
- solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/nonLinBlock
- solidMechanics/elasticNonLinTLSolidFoam/rotateSphereTL
- solidMechanics/elasticThermalSolidFoam/hotCylinder
- solidMechanics/stressFemFoam/plateHole
- Many other updates due to blockMesh syntax update
* New tutorials:
- compressible/dbnsFoam/forwardStep
- compressible/dbnsFoam/shockTube
- compressible/dbnsTurbFoam/naca0012
- compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/2bump
- compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/bumpBlockMesh
- compressible/steadyCompressibleFoam/bumpFine05
- compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam/bentRotorStator
- compressible/steadyCompressibleMRFFoam/simpleRotorStator
- compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam/bentBlade
- compressible/steadyCompressibleSRFFoam/simpleBlade
- coupled/pUCoupledFoam/cavity
- incompressible/MRFSimpleFoam/axialTurbine_ggi
- incompressible/MRFSimpleFoam/axialTurbine_mixingPlane
- incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/axialTurbine
- incompressible/pimpleDyMFoam/movingCylinders
- incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/backwardFacingStepLaminar
- incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/backwardFacingStepTurbulent
- incompressible/pUCoupledFoam/cavity
- incompressible/simpleSRFFoam/axialTurbine
- mesh/moveDynamicMesh/movingCylinders
* Bug fixes: LinearUpwind no longer hangs in parallel execution on
empty patches
6 Recent sucessful compilations and tests
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* Ubuntu 14.04:
[http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=736]
* Ubuntu 12.04:
[http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=738]
* CentOS 6.4:
[http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=734]
* Mac OX X & CLang:
[http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=733]
* Mac OX X & gcc
[http://openfoam-extend.sourceforge.net/CDash/viewTest.php?buildid=737]
7 Reporting bugs
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To report bugs, please use the MantisBT bugtracker at
[http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/openfoam-extend]
8 How to contribute
===================
All your contributions are highly welcome: New solvers, utilities and
models; bug fixes; documentation. The many ways of contributing and
the contribution process are described in detail in the file
"HowToContribute" and at
[http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-extend/wiki/Home/]
9 List of Contributors:
=======================
See file ListOfContributors