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What's new in PHOENICS
Changes made between PHOENICS July 2009 and September 2010
For more details about the reported changes click
here.
- Grid tolerance now in 3 directions
- Allow 'Affects grid' in 3 directions.
- Add pre-set compass directions to
WIND
- Allow multiple WINDs in transient case for change of wind direction / speed with time
- Allow multiple ROTOR objects
- Add initial guess and relaxation for deduced velocity at
OUTLET
- Allow for >999 objects when naming source patches on faces of 198 blockage
- Allow user-set InForm for EMIS in Immersol
- Error in auto-mesh fixed
- grid refinement process stopped too soon
- Allow MPI version to be set in cham.ini file
- Ensure that objects placed
completely outside domain do not create any PATCH commands for Earth
- Number of
CAD formats supported
increased to include:
- STL - Stereolithography file. This is available in many popular CAD
programs as an export format.
- DXF - Drawing Exchange Format File (AutoCAD)
- 3DS - Autodesk 3ds Max
- WRL - Virtual Reality Modelling Language file
- DW - Files generated by DesignWorkshop from
Artifice
- AC - Files generated by AC3D from Invis
- IV - Files generated by Open Inventor
- Flair:
- Allow FIRE heat and mass source to be read from table files
- Set turbulence intensity for
JETFAN
- Enable inverse-linear density option
- Input File processing / PIL:
- Faster processing of long Q1s with many InForms attached to objects
- Faster processing of Q1 files with large number of time steps
- Allow multiple ! in comment
- Allow longer LABEL in PIL GOTO command
- Fix loss of accuracy in PIL SORT function, and add tolerance for removal of
duplicates
- Allow PIL character variables to be up to 1024 characters long
- F1-in-Schools:
- Add Bloodhound and Formula 1 classes
- Allow for body STL which already includes wheels
- ESTER:
- Correction to anode positioning when raising/lowering anode
- Store interpolated values in memory and reload when plotting same variable again
to save time
- Improve time and profile plotting
facility by allowing name of file saved to be specified
- Corrections to contour filling in PARSOL cut cells in polar coordinates
- Allow selection of first/last frame when saving streamline animation to control
size of saved movie file
- Macro function:
- Add continuous and inverse colour
- Add recognition of photon mgrid/mvec commands
- Save line plot to macro
- Save line plot image from macro
- Correction so that macro still functions after 'Cancel'
has been pressed
- When opening case:
- Can change working directory to location of case files or copy case files to current
working directory
- Can preserve current view rather than switch to view saved in Q11
- Current working directory is displayed in status bar
- Better checking of license file location in registry
to ensure that search path does not become too long
- Display 32/64 bit in window title and result file
- Editor / Viewer screen proportions fixed regardless of screen aspect ratio
- Default image type (gif, pcx, bmp or jpg) for saved images can be set in cham.ini
- New PARSOL implementation for better detection and faster conjugate haet
transfer solution
- Transient contribution to Nett Source printed to RESULT for Energy and scalars as well as mass
- Flow extracted by one ANGLED-IN can be used as source from another, e.g. for
induction fan
- Parallel:
- Nett source printout in RESULT brought into line with sequential
- Error in source-sum calculation fixed
- ANGLED-IN can lie across processor boundaries - previously would give wrong
source
- Linked ANGLED-INs do not need to be on same processor
- STORE(IMB1) now works
- Display of maximum absolute corrections in graphical monitor works
- Reading of FACETDAT containing large number of facets fixed. Previously wrong
format was used.
- InForm:
- Allow longer and more complex formulae - up to 100 operands
- Creation of tabular output written once per sweep or once per time step
- Allow for modification of porosity by InForm
- Add recognition of BFC geometry quantities
- Allow file name in PWLF function to start with /
- Correction to indexing of OLD() function
- Correction to SUM function in parallel
- Error in diffusion coefficients for scalars when any property set with InForm fixed
- Flair:
- FIRE heat and smoke sources written to table files for easy comparison with
input data
- Additional convergence monitoring information written to table file
- GENTRA:
- ANGLED-IN / ANGLED-OUT can act as GENTRA exits
- Wall reflection for very small domains fixed
- Flair SPRAY_HEAD can activate GENTRA tracks when link temperature exceeded
- Changes to relaxation made interactively during the run written to RESULT
- Monitor interrupt screen buttons do not disappear when window is moved or
obscured and revealed
- Add missing inflow source contribution for TEM1 in cut cells
- Save friction force on blockages in case when PARSOL=F and no cut cells
- Correction to LVEL for GCV multi-block cases
- Correction to calculation of GENK in GCV multi-block cases
- 64-bit version can be compiled with long integers, allowing even larger cases to
be run
- Updates to MFM
- Updates to USP and USP mesh generation
For more details about the above changes click here.
For a more general list of improvements and corrections, see the
Release Notes, TR327.
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