- The internal storage location of finite-area changes from being
piggybacked on the polyMesh registry to a having its own dedicated
registry:
* allows a clearer separation of field types without name clashes.
* prerequisite for supporting multiple finite-area regions (future)
Old Locations:
```
0/Us
constant/faMesh
system/faMeshDefinition
system/faSchemes
system/faSolution
```
New Locations:
```
0/finite-area/Us
constant/finite-area/faMesh
system/finite-area/faMeshDefinition (or system/faMeshDefinition)
system/finite-area/faSchemes
system/finite-area/faSolution
```
NOTES:
The new locations represent a hard change (breaking change) that
is normally to be avoided, but seamless compatibility handling
within the code was found to be unworkable.
The `foamUpgradeFiniteArea` script provides assistance with migration.
As a convenience, the system/faMeshDefinition location continues
to be supported (may be deprecated in the future).
- renumberMesh now has -dry-run, -write-maps, -no-fields,
-renumber-method, -renumber-coeffs options.
* Use -dry-run with -write-maps to visualize the before/after
effects of renumbering (creates a VTK file).
* -no-fields to renumber the mesh only.
This is useful and faster when the input fields are uniform
and the -overwrite option is specified.
* -renumber-method allows a quick means of specifying a different
default renumber method (instead of Cuthill-McKee).
The -renumber-coeffs option allows passing of dictionary content
for the method.
Examples,
// Different ways to specify reverse Cuthill-McKee
* -renumber-method RCM
* -renumber-coeffs 'reverse true;'
* -renumber-method CuthillMcKee
* -renumber-coeffs 'reverse true;'
* -renumber-coeffs 'method CuthillMcKee; reverse true;'
// Other (without dictionary coefficients)
* renumberMesh -renumber-method random
// Other (with dictionary coefficients)
renumberMesh \
-renumber-method spring \
-renumber-coeffs 'maxCo 0.1; maxIter 1000; freezeFraction 0.99;'
// Other (with additional libraries)
renumberMesh -renumber-method zoltan -lib zoltanRenumber
COMP: build zoltan renumbering to MPI-specific location
- zoltan and Sloan renumbering are now longer automatically linked to
the renumberMesh utility but must be separately loaded by a
command-line option or through a dictionary "libs" entry.
ENH: add output cellID for decomposePar -dry-run -cellDist
- add convenience forms for common combinations
- avoid allocation for 1:1 identity agglomerations
- support subsetting forms (avoids an intermediate fvMeshSubset)
that also return the cellMap
- refactored to eliminate code duplication between weighted and
unweighted forms
- static version of polyMesh::meshDir(), which takes a region name
polyMesh::meshDir(regionName)
vs
polyMesh::regionName(regionName)/polyMesh::meshSubDir
STYLE: use polyMesh::regionName(..) instead of comparing to defaultRegion
STYLE: use getOrDefault when retrieving various -region options
FIX: polyMesh::dbDir() now checks registry name, not full path (#3033)
- combined most of the unweighted and weighted decomposition routines
such that an empty weight field is treated as uniform weighting.
This allows default parameters and cuts down on the number of
decompose methods.
- for topology-driven decomposition, it is now possible to pass in the
owner/neighbour connectivity as a CompactListList directly instead
of first creating a labelListList (which was internally repacked into
a CompactListList in many cases).
However, multiLevelDecomp still uses unpacking (to avoid a larger
reworking of code).
- support direct creation of some methods (eg, random, scotch etc)
without a dictionary
- fix incorrect neighbour face weighting (fixes#3019)
ENH: relocate calcCellCells from decompositionMethod to globalMeshData
- makes it more universally available
- now mark methods with strict deprecation, to make it easier to find
their use but without adding extra compilation noise for others
ENH: minor update for Enum methods and iterator
- add warnOnly (failsafe) option for readEntry and getOrDefault
- add good() method to Enum iterator (simliar to HashTable)
- replace unused/fragile Enum find() methods with iterator return
that can be used more generally
- in most cases a parallel-consistent order is required.
Even when the order is not important, it will generally require
fewer allocations to create a UPtrList of entries instead of a
HashTable or even a wordList.
- individual processor Time databases are purely for internal logistics
and should not be introducing any new library symbols: these will
already have been loaded in the outer loop.
- accept IOobjectOption::registerOption with (MUST_READ, NO_WRITE)
being implicit. Direct handling of IOobjectOption itself, for
consistency with IOobject.
The disabling of object registration is currently the only case
where IOobjectList doesn't use default construction parameters,
but it was previously a bit awkward to specify.
- include -no-libs option by default, similar to '-lib',
which makes it available to all solvers/utilities.
Add argList allowLibs() method to query it.
- relocate with/no functionObjects logic from Time to argList
itself as argList allowFunctionObjects()
- add libs/functionObjects override handling to decomposePar etc
ENH: report the stream relativeName for IOerrors (see c9333a5ac8)
- in various situations with mesh regions it is also useful to
filter out or remove the defaultRegion name (ie, "region0").
Can now do that conveniently from the polyMesh itself or as a static
function. Simply use this
const word& regionDir = polyMesh::regionName(regionName);
OR mesh.regionName()
instead of
const word& regionDir =
(
regionName != polyMesh::defaultRegion
? regionName
: word::null
);
Additionally, since the string '/' join operator filters out empty
strings, the following will work correctly:
(polyMesh::regionName(regionName)/polyMesh::meshSubDir)
(mesh.regionName()/polyMesh::meshSubDir)
- simplify procAddressing read/write
- avoid accessing points in faMeshReconstructor.
Can rely on the patch meshPoints (labelList), which does not need
access to a pointField
- report number of points on decomposed mesh.
Can be useful additional information.
Additional statistics for finite area decomposition
- provide bundled reconstructAllFields for various reconstructors
- remove reconstructPar checks for very old face addressing
(from foam2.0 - ie, older than OpenFOAM itself)
- bundle all reading into fieldsDistributor tools,
where it can be reused by various utilities as required.
- combine decomposition fields as respective fieldsCache
which eliminates most of the clutter from decomposePar
and similfies reuse in the future.
STYLE: remove old wordHashSet selection (deprecated in 2018)
BUG: incorrect face flip handling for faMeshReconstructor
- a latent bug which is not yet triggered since the faMesh faces are
currently only definable on boundary faces (which never flip)
- previously filtered on the existence of area fields, but with
faMesh::TryNew this is not required anymore.
STYLE: enable -verbose for various parallel utilities (consistency)
STYLE: LduInterfaceFieldPtrsList as alias instead of a class
STYLE: define patch lists typedefs when defining the base patch
- eg, polyPatchList typedef within polyPatch.H
INT: relocate GeometricField::Boundary -> GeometricBoundaryField
- was internal to GeometricField but moving it outside simplifies
forward declarations etc. Code adapted from openfoam.org
- decomposePar: -no-fields to suppress decomposition of fields
- makeFaMesh: -no-decompose to suppress creation of *ProcAddressing
and fields, -no-fields to suppress decomposition of fields only
- similar to -dry-run handling, can be interrogated from argList,
which makes it simpler to add into utilities.
- support multiple uses of -dry-run and -verbose to increase the
level. For example, could have
someApplication -verbose -verbose
and inside of the application:
if (args.verbose() > 2) ...
BUG: error with empty distributed roots specification (fixes#2196)
- previously used the size of distributed roots to transmit if the
case was running in distributed mode, but this behaves rather poorly
with bad input. Specifically, the following questionable setup:
distributed true;
roots ( /*none*/ );
Now transmit the ParRunControl distributed() value instead,
and also emit a gentle warning for the user:
WARNING: running distributed but did not specify roots!
- argList::envExecutable() static method.
This is identical to getEnv("FOAM_EXECUTABLE"), where the name of
the executable has typically been set from the argList construction.
Provides a singleton access to this value from locations that
do not have knowledge of the originating command args (argList).
This is a similar rationale as for the argList::envGlobalPath() static.
- additional argList::envRelativePath() static method.
- make -dry-run handling more central and easier to use by adding into
argList itself.
STYLE: drop handling of -srcDoc (v1706 option)
- replaced with -doc-source for 1712 and never used much anyhow
- noticed by Robin Knowles with `decomposePar -fields -copyZero`
The internals for the Foam:cp method combine the behaviour of
a regular `cp` and `cp -R` combined.
When source and target are both directories, the old implementation
created a subdirectory for the contents.
This normally fine,
ok: cp "path1/0/" to "path2/1" -> "path2/1/2"
BUT: cp "path1/0/" to "path2/0" -> "path2/0/0" !!
Now add check for the basenames first.
If they are identical, we probably meant to copy directory contents
only, without the additional subdir layer.
BUG: decomposePar -fields -copyZero copies the wrong directory
- was using the current time name (usually latest) instead of copying
the 0 directory
ENH: accept 0.orig directories as a fallback to copy if the 0 directory
is missing
- 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.
- can now drop older Test-decomposePar for exploration purposes
and simply use -dry-run with the -domains and -method options.
- write VTK file instead of volScalarField in combination
with -dry-run and -cellDist.
Avoids adding any OpenFOAM fields and is usually faster to load.
Also easier to rename than a volScalarField would be when exploring
multiple decompositions.
Step 1.
include "addAllRegionOptions.H"
Adds the -allRegions, -regions and -region options to argList.
Step 2.
include "getAllRegionOptions.H"
Processes the options with -allRegions selecting everything
from the regionProperties.
OR use -regions to specify multiple regions (from
regionProperties), and can also contain regular expressions
OR use the -region option
Specifying a single -regions NAME (not a regular expresssion)
is the same as -region NAME and doesn't use regionProperties
Creates a `wordList regionNames`
Step 3.
Do something with the region names.
Either directly, or quite commonly with the following
include "createNamedMeshes.H"
Creates a `PtrList<fvMesh> meshes`
STYLE: add description to some central include files
- make regionName an optional constructor parameter, which eliminates
a separate set of constructors and construction tables. Adjust
internals to treat a missing/empty regionName as a no-op.
- pass in fallback dictionary content via new IOdictionary constructor
with a pointer
ENH: further relax check for matching number of processor dirs
- if the "numberOfSubdomains" entry is missing (or even zero)
ignore checks of processor dirs as meaningless.
- simplifies local toggling.
- centralize fileModification static variables into IOobject.
They were previously scattered between IOobject and regIOobject
- robuster matching behaviour when encountering paths that themselves
contain the word "processor" in them. For example,
"/path/processor0generation2/case1/processor10/system"
will now correctly match on processor10 instead of failing.
- use procRangeType for encapsulating the processor ranges
- provision for information of distributed vs non-distributed roots.
The information is currently available from the initial setup, but
can useful to access directly within fileOperation.
STYLE: modernize list iteration
- Favour use of argList methods that are more similar to dictionary
method names with the aim of reducing the cognitive load.
* Silently deprecate two-parameter get() method in favour of the
more familiar getOrDefault.
* Silently deprecate opt() method in favour of get()
These may be verbosely deprecated in future versions.
- Eg, with surface writers now in surfMesh, there are fewer libraries
depending on conversion and sampling.
COMP: regularize linkage ordering and avoid some implicit linkage (#1238)
