Release Notes
All changes performed during the release of the book »Mathematics, Numerics, Derivations and OpenFOAM«
Changes from the release 7.x (11.2019) to the new upcoming release 2020
- Added a new chapter that describes how the matrix construction is performed and how we can extract the units of the matrix system
- Corrected equations 5.22, 5.23, 5.24. Here the last term for the y - momentum was incorrect. Kurian Vachaparambil
- In the matrix below equation 9.72, the bar above the velocity components are missing
- In equation 5.10, the partial derivative of the second term was wrong, in addition the vector form was added
- Added Einsteins Summation examples
- Updated the Reynolds-Stress equation derivation chapter (added a lot of new information)
Thanks to George Klavaris, he gave the trigger for the modifications and extensions
Changes from the release 5.x (04.2018) to the release 7.x
- Updated the design
- Corrected typos, wording, and the language
- Added the derivation of the temperature equation for solids
- Renewed the chapter "Calculation of the Shear-Rate Tensor in OpenFOAM®
- Renewed the chapter "The numerical algorithms: SIMPLE, PISO and PIMPLE"
- Split the book in two versions, a free and paid one
Changes from the edition 4 (24.09.2017) to the release 5.x (04.2018)
- Updated the c++ code to the OpenFOAM-5.x Foundation version
- Version number of the book correlates to the Foundation version
- Correction of nOuterCorrectors set-up on page 115. I mentioned to set this quantity to zero to get the PISO loop but it is one
- On page 116 the code tells one that the turbOnFinalIter is set to true but I mentioned that it is set to false in the text
Thanks to Hossein Heydari for the report - Summary of equations. The enthalpy equation was wrong
- Added other equations to the summary
Thanks to Dr. Lars Korn for the hints - First term in equation 2.61 corrected (density was missing)
Thanks to Chris Harding for the hint - Corrected typos and sentences
- Improved english quality
- Book format changed
- Bookmarks for PDF corrected
Changes from the edition 4 (20.09.2017) to the edition 4 (24.09.2017)
- Sign mistake in appendix page 155
- Shear-Rate Term
- a) Sign mistake in appendix page 159 equation 14.32 >/li>
- f) Derivative wrong in equation 14.42, 14.43 and 14.44 (second term on the LHS)
- Resolved minor grammar mistakes
Thanks to Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali for reporting the mistakes
Changes from the edition 4 (17.09.2017) to the edition 4 (20.09.2017)
- Equation 9.97, 9.98, 9.99 9.100, 9.101 average symbol missing on some quantities
- Equation 9.107 and 9.108 had a wrong derivation
- Equation 9.110 had a wrong diffusion term
- Equation 14.18 and 14.19 denominator was wrong
Thanks to Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali for reporting the mistakes
Changes from the edition 4 (03.09.2017) to the edition 4 (17.09.2017)
- Essential error in integral form of the momentum equation 2.28 and 8.8: The pressure term is a surface integral
- Typos correction on page 23 and 49
Thanks to Florian Kunstmann for the hints - Missing absolute bar in page 50 (summary in the total energy equation
- Equation 5.26, the term on the left hand side was wrong (the shear-rate term)
- Equation 9.39, 9.41, 9.46, 9.47 and 9.48 were wrong (pressure term with wrong sign)
- Equation 9.7 missing dt term on the LHS
- Equation 9.51 and 9.52 represents one equation (not two)
- Equation 9.64 (new number 9.63), missing identity on the RHS (underbrace)
- Equation 9.73 (new number 9.72), missing trace operator in second line
- Equation 9.83 (new number 9.82), pressure typo (star sign has to be applied)
Thanks to Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali for the hints (highly appreciated) - Equation 9.78, 9.79, 9.80 (new number 9.77, 9.78 and 9.79), missing bar on pressure
Changes from the edition 4 (29.01.2017) to the edition 4 (03.09.2017)
- Corrected equation 2.95 (density inside the squares)
Thanks to Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali for the hint - Page 69, section 9.1the sentence including "... figure 7.1" was corrected (number of the figure was wrong)
- Page 70, equation 9.3 corrected
- Page 86, equation 9.64 corrected
Thanks to Vigneshwaran Sankar for the hints - Page 115, PISO is done with nOuterCorrectors equal one (previous ... equal zero)
Thanks to Arnav Ajmani for the hint - New chapter about the relaxation techniques in OpenFOAM® (field and matrix) to get more information about the information loose and the Final flag
- Changed the word viscose to viscous
Thanks to my former colleague Christian Rodrigues - Changes only related to chapter 7
- Improved English
- Added dependency to equation 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7 and 7.8
- Corrected equation 7.16, 7.17 and 7.18
Changes from the edition 4 (19.10.2017) to the edition 4 (29.01.2017)
- Some minor typos resolved
- residualControls changed to residualControl in the chapter of PIMPLE
- Added chapter about the bulk viscosity
- Big changes in chapter 4 and 5 according to the bulk viscosity
- Some sentence correction in chapter 10
- Corrected equation 10.12
- Added chapter 12 - OpenFOAM® tutorials
- Corrected a lot of typos
- Renewed the introduction of the mass conservation equation
- Renewed the introduction of the momentum conservation equation
- Corrected the summary page (equations were wrong)
- Corrected equation 2.46
- Added new chapter about "OpenFOAM® tutorials"
- Updated and changed a lot of sentences for a better understanding in the whole documentation
- Added literature
- Added "how to cite"
- Renewed the abstract
- Book ready to print
Changes from the edition 3 to the edition 4 (19.10.2016
- Added subsection for the usage of the SIMPLEC algorithm
- Added SIMPLEC to SIMPLE
- Added SIMPLEC to PIMPLE
- Implemented English correction in chapter 1 (thanks to Vignesh T.G.)
- Corrected Gauss summation convention (thanks to Jaap Versteegh)
- Added non-symmetric tensor definition
- Extended equation (1.13) to clear some doubts
- Included hyperref to the document
- Re-format the code listings
- New literature style
- Added a new chapter (23 pages) about the usage of the PIMPLE algorithm (community wish)
- Some typos corrected
- Corrected figure 2.2
- Corrected two terms (plus sign of pressure to minus sign)
- Increased readability
- Moved Reynolds-Stress equation derivation to the appendix
- Summary of equation is now a own chapter
- Changed format to B5 (for book)
- Generated a book cover
- Added one literature
- All formula's are included in the text flow (they end with a point or comma)
- A lot of equations are new formated
Changes from the edition 2.1 to the edition 3
- Extended ~ 35 pages for turbulence modeling
- Correct some mistakes (in general)
- Include the handling of the time derivative as differences first
- English improvements
- Extend and reorganized the mathematic chapter
- Reorganize the shear-rate tensor derivation in OpenFOAM®
- Turbulence modeling
- Introduce to Reynolds-Averaging methods (time-average, ensemble, ...)
- Time-Averaging operations on linear, nonlinear terms and constants
- Derivation of incompressible Reynolds time-averaged mass conservation
- Derivation of compressible Reynolds time-averaged mass conservation (to show why we get more troubles here)
- Introduce the turbulent Reynolds stress tensor
- Derivation of incompressible Reynolds time-averaged momentum equation
- Introducing the closure problem
- Comparison of Reynolds stress tensor and Cauchy stress tensor (especially to show the modified pressure we use in OpenFOAM®)
- Introducing to the Boussinesq eddy viscosity approximation
- Introducing the eddy viscosity approximation
- Derivation of the incompressible Reynolds-Stress equation to derive the turbulent kinetic energy equation
- Derivation of the incompressible kinetic energy equation of the turbulence
- Relation between length scale and dissipation
- Derivation of the incompressible dissipation rate equation (not shown in detail)
- Introducing the Favre averaging concept
- Demonstrate the concept using the compressible mass conservation equation
Changes from the edition 2.0 to the edition 2.1
- English improvements and corrections corrected (thanks to Sergei for the nice corrections)
- Gauss theorem introduced in the mathematic section
- Equation (1.6) corrected
- After equation (1.7), the vector notation (brackets) was wrong
- Equation (1.14) results not in a vector, it results in a scalar
- Equation (1.15) dyadic sign added
- Equation (1.16) dyadic sign added
- Equation (2.4) corrected again
- The sentence after (2.9) was changed to be more clear
- Section 2.1.1, remarks and addition information to gauss theorem etc.
- Equation (2.13) - (2.16) corrected; velocity vector was not bold
- Literature added for the non-common continuity equation
- Equation (2.30), (2.31) and (2.32) dyadic sign added
- Equation (2.77) other re-arrangement, to be more clear what we do
- Equation (2.78) conversation -> conversion
- Equation (2.85) 4th term on the RHS is a surface integral (changed integral sign)
- Added a description why we use the small bullet in the integrals instead of the big bullet (because both represent the inner product of two vectors)
