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New version of OpenFOAM-v2312
OpenCFD is pleased to announce the December 2023 release of OpenFOAM® v2312. This release extends OpenFOAM-v2306 features across many areas of the code. The new functionality represents development sponsored by OpenCFD's customers, internally funded developments, and integration of features and changes from the OpenFOAM community.


Full information about the release can be found at https://www.openfoam.com/news/main-news/openfoam-v2312


Among the new development you will find:


Pre-processing

• snappyHexMesh: writing faces from the automatic leak path closure
• snappyHexMesh: new multiple inside points
• snappyHexMesh: parallel meshing load balancing
• snappyHexMesh: layer-by-layer addition
• Improved checkMesh and subsetMesh utility

Numerics

• Community contribution: Improved adjoint shape optimisation
• Community contribution: New topology-based adjoint optimisation

Solvers and physical models

• Improved fvOptions: moving points
• New fvOption: mapped field constraint
• Community contribution: new Turbulence Technical Committee submodule
• Improved Lagrangian Brownian motion

Post-processing

• New Abaqus sampled set and set writer
• Improved patch seed set
• New reduced-order modelling field reconstruction with DMD

Parallel

• Coupled patch field value consistency
• Non-blocking cyclic A(C)M
• GAMG : support for cyclicAMI in processor agglomeration
• Improvements for redistributePar and file systems

In addition to source code packages suitable for compilation on a variety of Linux and other POSIX systems, this release also has a number of pre-compiled binary packages for Linux and MS Windows.