FEATool Multiphysics Version 1.14.1

FEATool Multiphysics Version 1.14.1 (Build 21.05.150)

• Preliminary support for built-in and robust 3D mesh generators
• GUI menu option to manually renumber/reassign 3D boundaries
• Heated pipe simulation tutorial with and without cooling fins

FEATool Multiphysics v1.14

FEATool Multiphysics v1.14 (Build 21.04.109)

• Release for parallel solvers
• Deactivate/release license menu option to move license to a new computer system
• Raw STL import and Gmsh meshing option for difficult STL geometries
• Solver restart options using partial solution vectors
• Coupled OpenFOAM and FEATool Multiphysics multi-solver simulation tutorial
• Improved and optimized treatment of slip boundary conditions

FEATool Multiphysics v1.13.3

FEATool Multiphysics v1.13.3 (Build 21.03.072)

• 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
• Updated FEniCS interface with full support for parallel computations
• Change to binary hdf5 format for FEniCS mesh and solution data
• New impexp_hdf5 and fenics_import utility functions
• Added point/edge/integral source and constraint buttons to the subdomain/boundary modes toolbars

FEATool Multiphysics v1.13.1

FEATool Multiphysics v1.13.1 (Build 21.02.048)

• Fixes for mesh generation of point objects
• Updated OpenCASCADE geometry kernel to v7.5.1
• Updated SU2 Code CFD solver to v7.1.0
• Select UMFPACK instead of MUMPS as default linear solver for MATLAB 2020a and later due to Mex file incompatibilities

FEATool Multiphysics v1.13

FEATool Multiphysics v1.13 (Build 20.12.350)

• New 3D CAD geometry modeling functionality
  • Chamfer (bevel edges)
  • Fillet (round edges)
  • Extrude/Revolve faces to solids
  • Loft faces
  • Split objects by cutline/cutplane
  • Sketching in 2D Workplanes
• Support for user defined solver monitor functions
• View, edit, and modify OpenFOAM case and dictionary files

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.4

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.4 (Build 20.09.249)

• Improved GEOMTool geometry engine with planar 2D support, faster and more robust geometry decomposition/analysis
  • Added chamfer and fillet geometry operations
  • Added split geometry object by cutplane/cutline
• Algrebraic Multigrid (AMG) linear solver option

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.3

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.3 (Build 20.06.157)

• Support for boundary and subdomain integral constraints
• Generalized slice plot postprocessing option
• Gradient reconstruction for evaluation of first order derivatives
• Animation of multiple time steps/solutions postprocessing option
• Streamline plot option
• Updated postprocessing dialog box GUI
• Improved OpenFOAM and SU2 discretization scheme options

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.2

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.2 (Build 20.05.138)

• Support for multiple imported CAD geometries
• Improved Gmsh import
• OpenFOAM and SU2 support for pressure inlet boundary conditions
• Added arrow plot scaling option
• Added solver settings GUI option for numerical integration order

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.1

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.1 (Build 20.04.101)

• Full support for FEniCS external solver
  • Supports conversion of most FEATool models to FEniCS Python simulation scripts
  • Time dependent and nonstationary problems
  • Nonlinear and discontinuous coefficients
• Improved postprocessing and visualization
  • Faster and more efficient 3D graphics
  • GUI support for more colors and colormaps, titles, and plot configurations
• GUI functionality to view partial grids
• Faster GUI command/terminal output speed
• Improved and more accurate Robin boundary condition treatment
• Faster expression evaluation via nodal interpolation
• Electrostatics micro strip capacitance tutorial

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.0 (Build 20.03.062)

• New SU2 CFD solver with built-in GUI and CLI interfaces
• Built-in algebraic turbulence model for Navier-Stokes physics mode
• Support for several OpenFOAM turbulence model variants (Spalart-Allmaras, k-epsilon (RNG and realizable), and k-omega (SST))
• New BREP based 3D CAD engine with support for BREP, IGES, OBJ, STEP, and STL CAD format import, export, and conversion
• Support for 2D boundary layers in Gmsh