[gschaider]

A new version of swak4Foam has been released. It is the version found on the USB-stick of the 8th OpenFOAM workshop. New features include (but for all see the README which has a complete list):

- functionObjects now store their data in the sub-directory postProcessing according to the new convention OpenFOAM has (sorry: this may break existing scripts relying on the old location)
- slight change in the format written may break the restart of cases where swak-specific restart data was written with older swak-version (should not hit many people)
- Example cases are adapted to run with OF 2.2. This may prohibit them from running with 2.1 or 2.0

But now the good parts:

- build scripts have been adapted to run on more machines, allow tuning of the compilation process, compile on non-gcc compilers and give more information for finding problems
- A new library with additional searchableSurfaces (to be used in snappyHexMesh) that allow boolean operations and coordinate transformations of searchable surfaces
- Function objects to calculate the distributions of variables (and expressions)
- specification of aliases for field names that contain special characters (like thermo:rho)
- functionObject to list all registered objects (basically for finding out what is there)
- functionObjects to handle global variables
- functionObject that executes a list of other functionObjects only if the run is parallel/serial
- A new type of variable (stacked) that allows recording multiple values
- More flexible output control for functionObjects based on simpleFunctionObjects
- swakDataEntry is improved
- other stuff and bug fixes (check the README)

Also to make life easier for the non-Emacs people who have problems converting the (still incomplete ) reference guide to a more readable form it can be downloaded here: http://openfoamwiki.net/images/d/db/...mReference.pdf

[JR22]

Hi Bernhard,

Will swak4Foam 0.2.4 install correctly on the new OpenFOAM 2.2.1 ?

Also, when will swak4Foam 0.2.4 be posted to the openfoamwiki.net site?

Thank you very much.

[gschaider]

Originally Posted by JR22

Hi Bernhard,

Will swak4Foam 0.2.4 install correctly on the new OpenFOAM 2.2.1 ?

I think so. But the only test is trying to compile it

Originally Posted by JR22

Also, when will swak4Foam 0.2.4 be posted to the openfoamwiki.net site?

I like to think that the SVN-download at http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...am#Downloading is sufficient. Providing the tarballs was only a workaround while the SVN was down but I don't see the point creating/testing/uploading tarballs if there is already a way to get the sources

[gschaider]

8 months ago the last release of swak4Foam happened. A week later Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA. Coincidence? Unlikely! (who is back there saying "Correlation does not imply causality"? Obviously someone who doesn't appreciate a good conspiracy theory). Today the next version of swak4Foam is announced and the world is expecting the next Spy-Agency to be exposed. The only question is: will it be China, Russia or Austria.

Most of the features have already leaked to the public through the public development repository and the twitter-acount @swakPyFoam but for all those whose intelligence-branch failed to interpret these informations correctly here is an incomplete list of the new features

• the version of the release has jumped to 0.3.0 as this release has now a parser for lagrangian particles (these were the last major OF "things" that swak4Foam couldn't access. It is now possible to let swak4Foam do calculations on clouds of particles
• the new release now supports Foam-3 (this is in the 2.x branch). The 1.x branch supports OF 1.7 and 1.6-ext, all newer Versions are supported in the 2.x-branch
• a number of new accumulations have been added (median, quantile and weighted counterparts for most of them)
• Python-integration has been improved (IPython inclusion, stabler etc)
• new utilities: fieldReport to quickly get information about fields, funkyPythonPostproc allows loading OF-data into a Python-workspace and analyze it with the NumPy/SciPy/Matplotlib-ecosystem of scientific software, funkySetLagrangianFields allows setting values on the particles of a lagrangian cloud
• a number of new function objects (calculation of potential flow, recalculation of thermophyiscs etc). The one with the longest name is swakExpressionAverageDistribution (applications for this are for instance the calculation of the average pressure as a function of the channel length)
• several other enhancements to utilities and function objects (all found in the README)
• a number of bugs was mercilessly squashed. Among them a problem with the correct summation of expressions on faceSets/faceZones in parallel runs
• attempts to improve compilation

A few highlights of the release are demonstrated here http://openfoamwiki.net/staticPages/...K_again.html#/

For further information see
- the Wiki page http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Contrib/swak4Foam
- the README that comes with the sources
- the Documentation-folder of the sources has an incomplete reference guide. It documents all the expression-grammars

Have fun and look out for the men in the trenchcoats

[gschaider]

This release has been sitting on my hard-disk for several weeks but now I've gotten around to releasing it officially (it is technically identical to the version on the USB-sticks distributed at the Workshop and also the version that is pulled when you compile it as one of the ThirdParty-packages with foam-extend-3.1)

This Release supports the latest versions of OpenFOAM (2.3) and Foam-Extend (3.1). It has its fair share of bug-fixes and also some new features:

• Compiling a "private" bison-version. The reason for this is that a growing number of distributions install bison 3.0 which is incompatible with swak4Foam. On such machines a script downloads a compatible version of bison (2.7), compiles it and installs it locally so that it will be only used for the compilation of swak4Foam
• New utility funkyWarpMesh allows deforming the mesh according to an expression
• A number of function-objects that trigger the writing of time-steps according to conditions
• Function object writeOldTimesOnSignal that writes the current state of the simulation when a floating-point-exception etc happens
• Additional library with fvOptions for OF-versions that support it
• Macro expansion in expressions

For a full list see the section about 0.3.1 in the README