[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