General improvements

• First release of new Multiphysics driver.
• First release of incompressible fluid analysis using Finite Element Method (embedded in new Multiphysics driver)
• Improvement of singular integration schemes for BEM
• Support of Pyra13 element connectivity
• Enhancement for results visualization on SEM

Specific improvements

Mechanical aspects (in new Multiphysics driver)

• Introduction of "Mechanical gluing" data

Thermal aspects (in new Multiphysics driver)

• Introduction of "Thermal gluing" data
• Introduction of "Mutual Radiation Surface" data

Electrical aspects (in new Multiphysics driver)

• Introduction of "Electrical gluing" data

OOFELIE::OptoThermoMechanics

• Introduction of new tutorials

OOFELIE::ElectroKineticThermomechanics

• First support of Seebeck and Peltier effects (driven by the epilogue)
• Quadratic volume elements are now supported for "Thermoelastic Electric Conductor"

Known limitations & bugs

General

• Quad8 and Tri6 shell elements are not yet supported (no quadratic elements).
• Line3 beam, rod and wire elements are not yet supported (no quadratic elements).
• Only isotropic elastic material is supported for Rod, Beam & Shell behaviors.

OOFELIE::Vibroacoustics

• 'Acoustic Rayleigh surface' data is only currently supported in fully coupled harmonic direct solver at the present time.
• 'Acoustic BEM surface' data is only currently supported in fully coupled harmonic direct solver at the present time..
• No support of symmetry and anti-symmetry planes in FMM solver.

OOFELIE::Electromagnetism

• If an infinite transformation is already defined in a sfield file (built with an older SF version than SFV7.2), the data should be reedited and the transformations in each direction should be activated before calling the solver.
• Electromotive Source are fully supported only when the support are faces of solid on which 'Active conductor' is defined. Transient analysis is not supported at the present time.
• Electromagnetic plate and wire are not fully supported.
• Quadratic volume elements are not supported.

OOFELIE::ElectrokineticThermomechanics

• Quadratic volume elements are not fully supported.
• 'Wire' behavior only works with 'Electric conductor' material in which Joule effect is taken into account.
• NL solver has to be called when piezoresistive materials are defined in the model.

OOFELIE::MEMS

• Electrostatic FMM solver can be called only when all boundary conditions are prescribed potentials.
• No support of symmetry and anti-symmetry planes in electrostatic FMM solver
• 'Stokes Flow BEM Surface' for internal problem is not currently supported.
• 'Stokes Flow BEM Surface' is not supported with "Coupled Modal Projection" solver in harmonic analysis.

OOFELIE::FSI

• No automatic detection of sharp edges in 'fluid structure interaction' assembly definition.
• No capability to use MUMPS linear solver type with FSI.
• No Windows version.
• When using remote launch to solve a FSI Problem with FINE-Hexa, you need to introduce the following commands in the epilogue to transfer the FINE-Hexa project into the local machine:
  #SECTION_6#
  system("tar cvfz ##_fieldresults/FHfiles.tgz ##_files/*);
  In this way, the FINE-Hexa project will be embedded in fieldresults directory and you should be able to retrieve it on the local machine.

New Multiphysics driver

• The "Oofelie" and "Oofelie Multiphysics" epilogues are not the same. The user has to manually transfer the content from one to the other if necessary.
• Some special combinations of "Physics", "Couplings" and "Advanced options" could not be fully tested and may not work.

IFluids aspects (in new Multiphysics driver)

• No compressible flow available.
• No turbulence scheme available.
• Coupling with dynamic structure does not work.
• Quadratic elements exhibit convergence problems.
• High Reynolds flows exhibit convergence problems.
• Purely Stokes problems do not work.