ENH: simple faMeshSubset (zero-sized meshes only)
ENH: additional access methods for faMesh, primitive geometry mode
- wrapped walking of boundary edgeLabels as list of list
(similar to edgeFaces).
- primitive finiteArea geometry mode with reduced communication:
primarily interesting for decomposition/redistribution (#2436)
ENH: extra vtk debug outputs for checkFaMesh
- report per-processor sizes in the mesh summary
- move construct from components. Construct with optional IO control
- separate init() method (as per polyMesh) to delay evaluation of
globalData and base geometry.
- faMesh removeFiles method
ENH: faBoundaryMeshEntries for reading faBoundary files without a mesh
ENH: adjust debug output for {fa,fae,fv,fvs}patchField::New
- add alternative constraint type selection for faePatchField.
- unify handling of "patchType" reading.
Make less noisy when reporting dictionary defaults.
- a try/catch approach is not really robust enough (or even possible)
since read failures likely do not occur on all ranks simultaneously.
This leads to situations where the master has thrown an exception
(and thus exiting the current routine) while other ranks are still
waiting to receive data and the program blocks completely.
Since this primarily affects data conversion routines such as
foamToEnsight etc, treat similarly to lagrangian: check for the
existence of essential files before proceeding or not. This is
wrapped into a TryNew factory method:
autoPtr<faMesh> faMeshPtr(faMesh::TryNew(mesh));
if (faMeshPtr) ...
- the finiteArea is typically restricteed to one or more patches on a
polyMesh but will have an external connectivity to other parts of
the polyMesh. For proper determination of the point normals (for
example), the neighbouring information is needed.
These outside 'halo' faces can be located on different processors,
but not correspond to an internal processor-processor interface.
Add a dedicated form of mapDistribute for swapping this type of
information. Since this is a collective operation, locate
corresponding methods directly on the faMesh level instead of
the faPatch level.
- the case of 'fan-like' processor was previously assumed to be
rare (see merge-request !490 and issue #2084).
However, Vaggelis Papoutsis noticed that even fairly normal geometries
can trigger problems.
- replaced the old patch/patch matching style with a more general
edge-based synchronisation and matching that appears to handle
the corner cases inherently. The internal communication overhead
is essentially unchanged, and the logic is simpler.
ENH: additional framework for managing patch connectivity
- improved separation of patch creation that is also parallel-aware,
which now allows creation in parallel
- memory-safe use of PtrList for adding patches, with a more generalized
faPatchData helper
- use uindirectPrimitivePatch instead of indirectPrimitivePatch
for internal patch handling.
- align boundary methods with polyMesh equivalents
- system/faMeshDefinition instead of constant/faMesh/faMeshDefinition
as per blockMesh convention. Easier to manage definitions, easier
for cleanup.
- drop inheritence from GeoMesh.
- New solver: `acousticFoam`
- New base finite-area region class: `regionFaModel`
- New base shell model classes:
- `vibrationShellModel`
- `thermalShellModel`
- New shell models:
- A vibration-shell model: `KirchhoffShell`
- A thermal-shell model: `thermalShell`
- New finite-area/finite-volume boundary conditions:
- `clampedPlate`
- `timeVaryingFixedValue`
- `acousticWaveTransmissive`
- New base classes for `fvOption` of finite-area methods: `faOption`
- New `faOption`s:
- `contactHeatFluxSource`
- `externalFileSource`
- `externalHeatFluxSource`
- `jouleHeatingSource`
- New tutorial: `compressible/acousticFoam/obliqueAirJet`
Signed-off-by: Kutalmis Bercin <kutalmis.bercin@esi-group.com>
- timeVaryingUniformFixedValue -> uniformFixedValue
- allows a variety of functions (eg, coded, expressions, tables, ...)
- more similarity to finiteVolume patch type
STYLE: remove unused timeVarying... from etc/controlDict
