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OpenFOAM why do you have not more usable error messages?

This is a bit crule tbh.
January 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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January 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Distributed cavitation models are available in the compressibleInterFoam multiphase solver in #OpenFOAM-dev

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compressibleInterFoam: Added support for phase-change and cavitation · OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev@89ab928
The new compressible form of the twoPhaseChange library including cavitation models Kunz, Merkle and SchnerrSauer provides compressibleInterFoam with optional phase change functionality specified i...
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January 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Changed the default scoping syntax in #OpenFOAM-dev to "/" which supports reading values from other files, e.g. "Uinlet 0/U!internalField;

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dictionary: Set the default scoping syntax to 'slash' · OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev@6c8732d
The new optional 'slash' scoping syntax is now the default and provides a more intuitive and flexible syntax than the previous 'dot' syntax, corresponding to the com...
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January 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is hard to imagine that fundamental numerics can be improve... but the face centre calculation in #OpenFOAM-dev has been corrected, improving the convergence on cases with distorted cells: the residuals for the motorbike tutorial are halved!

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face, primitiveMesh: Corrected face-centre calculations · OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev@f85edb0
Face centres are calculated by area-weighting the centres of triangles that are formed by connecting each edge to a common point. The common point is taken to be the average of all the face vertice...
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January 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
In the VTK surface writer, removed duplicate code and provided support to write binary VTK files in #OpenFOAM-dev

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vtkSurfaceWriter: Rationalised writing to use vtkWriteOps · OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev@622f472
avoiding code duplication and providing support for writing binary.
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January 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Refactored coupled patch transformations to remove a hack to work around a conservation error in surface film functionality, which is now fixed in #OpenFOAM-dev

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Coupled patch transformations: Removed the hideous and unphysical non… · OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev@03207b1
…-uniform transformation support The implementation of the optional non-uniform transformations in coupled patches was based on transform property lists which could be either length 0 for no trans...
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January 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Reading of the table and constant functions of the Function1 class now supports the 3 standard formats used in other functions, in #OpenFOAM-dev

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Function1: Made Table and Constant readable in multiple formats · OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev@0d97866
A typical Function1 entry can be read in one of three ways; with the parameters in the current dictionary, in a separate sub-dict, or with the entry itself as the dictionary; e.g., // Current-...
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January 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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January 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM