What's new in solids4foam-v2.1?
The main changes from v2.0
to v2.1
are:
- solids4foam-v2.1 compiles with OpenFOAM-v2012 to OpenFOAM-v2312, OpenFOAM-9, and foam-extend-4.1;
- Conjugate heat transfer and thermo-fluid-solid interaction capabilities have been added;
- README.md files have been added to more tutorials and to the website;
- New tutorials have been added;
- A segment-to-segment contact procedure has been added to the
solidContact
boundary condition; - Many bugs have been fixed, and refactorings have been performed;
- A new general vertex-centred solid model
vertexCentredLinearGeometry
has been created, allowing run-time selection of a block-coupled, segregated or explicit solution algorithm; - A new block-coupled nonlinear geometry vertex-centred solid model has been added:
vertexCentredNonLinTotalLagGeometry
; - The general
electroMechanicalLaw
has been added; - The general
poroMechLaw
has been added; - The
GuccioneElastic
mechanical law has been added; - The Robin-Neumann fluid-solid interaction coupling now works with OpenFOAM.com and OpenFOAM.org versions;
- Centralised the wmake-options and made a provision for OpenFOAM/modules integration;
- Refactored compiler directives for the different versions, e.g. OPENFOAMESIORFOUNDATION -> OPENFOAM_NOT_EXTEND;
- Case dictionaries now get written with their default values to .withDefaultValues;
- Refactoring of GitHub actions;
- Ported kirchhoffPlateSolid solid model and the squarePlate tutorial to OpenFOAM.com.
What's new in solids4foam-v2.0?
The main changes from v1.0
and v1.1
to v2.0
are:
- solids4foam-v2.0 compiles with newer versions of OpenFOAM and foam-extend;
- solids4foam has moved from bitbucket to GitHub;
- solids4foam has a new website (you are here now!);
- In collaboration with the preCICE development team, support has been added for using solids4foam with preCICE;
- The latest versions of solids4foam are now automatically added to the solids4foam Docker Hub page;
- New solid mechanical laws have been added, including Mooney-Rivlin, Yeoh, and isotropic Fung (and Ogden soon);
- New solid models have been added, such as the block-coupled vertex-centred approach built on the PETSc linear solver toolbox;
- The fluid models more closely follow the code from the underlying OpenFOAM version;
- The build and test scripts have been re-designed;
- A tutorials benchmark data repository has been created for storing reference data and results for the tutorials;
- solids4foam has a new logo! It is a deformed green nabla (like a deformed structure) with strings; the strings are a hat tip to the origins of the nabla symbol and the national symbol of Ireland;
- The
filesToReplaceInOF
has been removed, although optionalFixes
are still recommended when using foam-extend; - foam-extend is no longer the primary development fork for solids4foam; instead, it is equally likely that new features will be developed in any of the three supported forks;
- Greater support is available for OpenFOAM.com and OpenFOAM.org versions; for example, multi-material and solid-to-solid contact is now supported.
2022-2024, solids4foam Revision
2789210