CFDTool

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+ CFDTool Changelog
+===================
+
+
+2024-09-30 version 1.10
+-----------------------
+
+- Unified UI with FEATool
+- Physics mode for compressible high Ma number turbulent flows
+  + Add tutorial model for supersonic compressible flow past a prism
+- Updated OpenFOAM solver interface
+  + Support coupled flow + heat transfer
+  + Support for multiple subdomains
+  + Support for chtMultiRegionFoam, buoyantBoussinesqFoam, and sonicFoam solvers
+  + CFD script model support for openfoam solver
+- SU2 support for turbulent compressible and high Ma flows
+- Improved UI performance and responsiveness
+
+
+2024-06-25 version 1.9.6
+------------------------
+
+- MacOS App OpenFOAM support (https://github.com/gerlero/openfoam-app)
+- Removed averaging of initial conditions for boundaries shared between subdomains
+- Improved performance of Robin boundary condition assembly
+- Fix for 3D geometry plotting (identification and deduplication of shared boundaries)
+
+
+2024-03-15 version 1.9.5
+------------------------
+
+- Support CSG formulas for robust (STL/OBJ) meshes
+- New supersonic flow passed a wedge tutorial
+- Change supersonic flow over bump tutorial to 3D
+- Support HOME/Documents/MATLAB/.cfdtool/cfdtool.ini configuration
+   + performance mex and mumps solver disabled by default
+- Fix bug in geometry object rotation
+- Minor fixes
+
+
+2023-11-30 version 1.9.4
+------------------------
+
+- Fix Excel (xlsx) data export
+- Add Data Export dialog box
+  + Support custom data export expressions
+  + Support custom data export coordinates
+- Improved app startup and shutdown time
+
+
+2023-09-10 version 1.9.3
+------------------------
+
+- Add equation mode menu option to remove physics modes
+- Updated OpenCASCADE geometry kernel to v7.7.2
+- Fix 2D STEP/IGES geometry import
+- Fix plot 3D block/hexahedal grid
+- Fix for Matlab 2023b
+
+
+2023-03-12 version 1.9.2
+------------------------
+
+- Show axes coordinate system orientation for 3D views
+- Update MUMPS linear solver
+  + Support all MATLAB versions (Windows and Linux)
+  + Support for Intel MKL BLAS, OpenMP, and >2GB large arrays
+- Updated SU2 Code CFD solver to v7.5.0
+- Add functionality to show geometry object information
+
+
+2022-10-20 version 1.9.1
+------------------------
+
+- Updated m-file export output to support the MATLAB "publish" command
+- New "Create Model Report" menu option to Generate model reports in
+  Html, PDF, Microsoft Word/PDF, Latex, and XML formats
+- Updated OpenCASCADE geometry kernel to v7.6.3
+- Updated SU2 Code CFD solver to v7.4.0
+
+
+2022-08-29 version 1.9
+-----------------------
+
+- Performance improvements for built-in multiphysics solver
+- Improved 3D geometry rendering performance
+- New 3D geometry defeaturing functionality
+- Support for edge/vertex selection for chamfer/fillet operations
+- Support for PDF image and Excel data export
+- Improved save/load model file performance
+
+
+2022-06-06 version 1.8.5
+------------------------
+
+- Fix for STEP geometry import with >= 2 objects
+- Improved and faster expression evaluation in assembly
+
+
+2022-05-09 version 1.8.4
+-------------------------
+
+- Added 2D geometry tool for Bezier and spline curves
+- Updated OpenCASCADE geometry kernel to v7.6.2
+- Support for binary brep (.bin) geometry format
+- Updated SU2 Code CFD solver to v7.3.1
+- Added k-Omega wall function support for SU2 solver
+
+
+2021-12-01 version 1.8.1
+-------------------------
+- Geometry import option from bitmap image (bmp, jpeg, png)
+- Support for structured meshing of geometry primitives
+- Updated plotly library to version 2.6.2
+- Updated ParaView Glance library to version 4.17.1,
+  and added support for slice and isosurface plot options
+- Linux support for HiDPI screens
+- Mouse controls for 3D zoom, pan, and rotate
+
+
+2021-11-01 version 1.8
+----------------------
+
+- Improved graphics performance for 3D plots
+- Changed 3D plots to fill the whole viewport with
+  CAD style orbit, pan, and zoom controls
+- Added flip/reverse view option by double clicking
+  on the 3D xy, xz, and yz quickview buttons
+
+
+2021-08-30 version 1.7.3
+------------------------
+
+- Added view boundaries/subdomains menu option
+  (for specifying mesh sizes on individual geometric entities)
+- Various performance improvements
+
+
+2021-05-24 version 1.7.1
+------------------------
+
+- Preliminary support for built-in and robust 3D mesh generators
+- GUI menu option to manually renumber/reassign 3D boundaries
+- Heated pipe with cooling fins validation tutorial
+
+
+2020-04-19 version 1.7
+----------------------
+
+- Minor update to sync with FEATool v1.14
+
+
+2020-03-26 version 1.6
+----------------------
+
+- Updated OpenFOAM and SU2 interfaces to support parallel computations
+- Added OpenFOAM binary GUI option to support user defined FOAM solvers
+- Added support for ESI-OpenCFD native Windows OpenFOAM distribution
+
+
+2020-11-01 version 1.5
+----------------------
+
+- Support 3D geometry and CAD modeling
+- SU2 external CFD solver integration
+
+
+2019-09-01 version 1.4
+----------------------
+
+- Support for .fes script file format
+- Added built in CFD tutorials
+
+
+2018-11-20 version 1.3
+----------------------
+
+- Support for supersonic and inviscid compressible flows
+  (compressible Euler equations)
+- OpenFOAM support for inviscid compressible flows
+- Monitoring of OpenFOAM convergence curves
+- NACA 4-series pre-defined wing geometry object
+
+
+2018-10-22 version 1.2
+----------------------
+
+- OpenFOAM external CFD solver integration
+- Support for k-epsilon/omega turbulence models (with OpenFOAM)
+- Potential flow velocity field initialization
+- Improved resolution of curved geometry boundaries
+
+
+2018-09-24 version 1.1
+----------------------
+
+- Support for 2D Axisymmetry/Cylindrical coordinates
+  and flows with swirl (non-zero azimuthal velocity)
+- Support for heat transfer modeling in 1D
+- Support for importing 2D planar STL CAD geometry files
+- Built-in interface to the external mesh generator
+  Gridgen2D with support for meshing boundary layers
+- Support for importing Gmsh, GiD, Triangle, and FEniCS
+  grid and mesh formats
+- Improved parametrization and meshing of curved boundaries
+- Added automatic shock capturing and stabilization for
+  convection dominated flow regimes
+- Improved and more efficient flow discretization
+- Added advanced postprocessing functionality such as boundary
+  integration for computation of drag and lift coefficients
+- Extended backwards compatibility to MATLAB 2009b
+
+
+2018-08-05 version 1.0
+----------------------
+
+- Initial release