terms of the local barycentric coordinates of the current tetrahedron,
rather than the global coordinate system.
Barycentric tracking works on any mesh, irrespective of mesh quality.
Particles do not get "lost", and tracking does not require ad-hoc
"corrections" or "rescues" to function robustly, because the calculation
of particle-face intersections is unambiguous and reproducible, even at
small angles of incidence.
Each particle position is defined by topology (i.e. the decomposed tet
cell it is in) and geometry (i.e. where it is in the cell). No search
operations are needed on restart or reconstruct, unlike when particle
positions are stored in the global coordinate system.
The particle positions file now contains particles' local coordinates
and topology, rather than the global coordinates and cell. This change
to the output format is not backwards compatible. Existing cases with
Lagrangian data will not restart, but they will still run from time
zero without any modification. This change was necessary in order to
guarantee that the loaded particle is valid, and therefore
fundamentally prevent "loss" and "search-failure" type bugs (e.g.,
2517, 2442, 2286, 1836, 1461, 1341, 1097).
The tracking functions have also been converted to function in terms
of displacement, rather than end position. This helps remove floating
point error issues, particularly towards the end of a tracking step.
Wall bounded streamlines have been removed. The implementation proved
incompatible with the new tracking algorithm. ParaView has a surface
LIC plugin which provides equivalent, or better, functionality.
Additionally, bug report <https://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2517>
is resolved by this change.
- previous only checked for clouds at the last instance and only
detected lagrangian fields from the first cloud.
Now check for clouds at all instances and detect all of their fields
as well.
- affects surfaceFieldValue, volFieldValue.
Use 'none' (if desired) to explicitly suppress the weightField, but
generally better to use a different operation.
There are a few issues:
- error would only throw exceptions if not parallel
- if we change this we also need to make sure the functionObjectList
construction is synchronised
- bounding box overlap was not returning the correct status so the code
to avoid the issue of 'badly formed bounding box' was not triggered.
- actually prevent this type of thing:
Switch sw;
sw = "none";
without relinquishing automatic conversion to/from bool.
Nonetheless, make construct from string explicit.
- Added some minor optimization for the lookup of the switch names.
- can be useful either for flow-rate weighting where backflow
is to be ignored in the average, or for flow-rate weighting
on surfaces with inconsistent orientation.
Reworked to code to make better use of Enum (the NamedEnum
replacement). Enum doesn't require contiguous enumeration values,
which lets us use bitmasking of similar operations to reduce
duplicate code.
