OpenFOAM® v2.1.0: Other New Functionality

In addition to new features described on other pages linked to from the version 2.1.0 release announcement, there are some other new developments and changes in OpenFOAM.

• The decomposePar utility has a new option to constrain the decomposition to leave patches intact; this can be beneficial when running AMI cases in parallel.
• The redistributeParMesh utility has been renamed to redistributePar.
• The SIMPLE/PIMPLE loop control structure has been formalised and propagated across solvers, enabling cleaner and more consistent code.
• The directMapped patch types have been renamed to mapped, following the inclusion of the new AMI functionality.
• Support for 64-bit labels now lifts the restriction of a maximum of two billion mesh elements.
• A restriction on format of hostnames and user names has now been removed by storing them as strings, enabling them to contain any character.