[opencfd]

OpenCFD is pleased to announce release of OpenFOAM-v1712. This release extends OpenFOAM-v1706 features across many areas of the code. The new functionality represents development sponsored by OpenCFDs customers, internally funded developments, and integration of features and changes from the OpenFOAM community.

Among other developments it features:
- Update of the Overset mesh
- New Arrhenius viscosity transport model
- New energy transport for non-thermal solvers
- New turbulence decay control
- New blended turbulence viscosity wall function
- New interface to the kaHIP decomposition library
- Improved parallel processing

Among the community contributions:
- New integration of finite area method from the foam-extend project by Hrvoje Jasak
- New avalanche modelling of Matthias Rauter
- New types of VOF waves

... and many other features

The detailed list can be found at: http://openfoam.com/releases/openfoam-v1712/

OpenFOAM-v1712 can be downloaded as source code, precompiled Docker images for Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems from http://openfoam.com/download/installation.php or is available also in the spack HPC package manager via the 'openfoam-com' package.