New features in Fidelity 2024.1
1.GUI and framework;
Improvements in the GUI;
Improvements of the selection tool: select similar entities;
Significant disk footprint reduction;
Reduced RAM usage when displaying markers;
Start Fidelity in daemonLess mode;
Improve the tree in the TURBO template;
Improve the geometry setup in the TURBO template;
Add an Annotation to the View;
2.Geometry and domain
Improve geometry import with two additional options Improve Autogrid, Igg and Fine Turbo import;
Define turbomachinery channel and ZR effect boundaries from CAD surface(s) Create meridional edges;
Improve turbomachine visualization Automatic search connections;
Cut surfaces with 2 points [beta];
3.Autogrid
Control the default naming of turbomachine entities;
Show periodic boundaries in Fidelity Autogrid meshes;
Import Autogrid template including ZR effect without domain boundaries;
Duplicate mesh setup including ZR effect 2D mesh;
Clean ZR effect blocking;
ZR effect default mesh improvements;
ZR effect detection tools;
Scale Fidelity Autogrid mesh exports;
4.Hexpress
Distributed parallel MPI mesh generation: surface wrapping now available and RAM reduction;
Enhanced flexibility for all refinement criteria of V2S Impose direct surface mesh instead of hex-core projection;
Insert viscous layers on only one side of the connecting surfaces Periodic matching mesh generation for V2S and S2V;
S2V volume mesh generation speed-up;
5.Turbo solver
Improve CPU booster;
Output polytropic efficiency & sort out the tabulated data in Turbo;
Equation of State: Turbo Solver (EOS);
6.Open solver
Equation of State: Open solver (EOS);
Load balancing and partitioning algorithm can be tweaked when running mixed meshes;
Export simulation solution to CGNS or EnSight file in Open-DBS;
Improve CPU booster for non-preconditioned flows in Open-DBS;
Initial turbomachinery solution for Fidelity Hexpress mesh in Open-DBS;
7.PBS solver
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8.Results Analysis
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9.Python scripts and API
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