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CFDTool Changelog

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