- The internal storage location of finite-area changes from being
piggybacked on the polyMesh registry to a having its own dedicated
registry:
* allows a clearer separation of field types without name clashes.
* prerequisite for supporting multiple finite-area regions (future)
Old Locations:
```
0/Us
constant/faMesh
system/faMeshDefinition
system/faSchemes
system/faSolution
```
New Locations:
```
0/finite-area/Us
constant/finite-area/faMesh
system/finite-area/faMeshDefinition (or system/faMeshDefinition)
system/finite-area/faSchemes
system/finite-area/faSolution
```
NOTES:
The new locations represent a hard change (breaking change) that
is normally to be avoided, but seamless compatibility handling
within the code was found to be unworkable.
The `foamUpgradeFiniteArea` script provides assistance with migration.
As a convenience, the system/faMeshDefinition location continues
to be supported (may be deprecated in the future).
- in makeFaMesh, the serial fields are now only read on the master
process and broadcast to the other ranks. The read+distribute is
almost identical to that used in redistributePar, except that in
this case entire fields are sent and not a zero-sized subset.
- improved internal faMesh checking for files so that the TryNew
method works with distributed roots.
- whichPolyPatches() = the polyPatches related to the areaMesh.
This helps when pre-calculating (and caching) any patch-specific
content.
- whichPatchFaces() = the poly-patch/patch-face for each of the faceLabels.
This allows more convenient lookups and, since the list is cached on
the area mesh, reduces the number of calls to whichPatch() etc.
- whichFace() = the area-face corresponding to the given mesh-face
ENH: more flexible/consistent volume->area mapper functions
ENH: simple faMeshSubset (zero-sized meshes only)
ENH: additional access methods for faMesh, primitive geometry mode
- wrapped walking of boundary edgeLabels as list of list
(similar to edgeFaces).
- primitive finiteArea geometry mode with reduced communication:
primarily interesting for decomposition/redistribution (#2436)
ENH: extra vtk debug outputs for checkFaMesh
- report per-processor sizes in the mesh summary
- added -dry-run, -write-vtk options.
Additional mesh information after creation.
- add parallel reductions and more information for checkFaMesh
ENH: minor cleanup of faPatch internals
- align pointLabels and pointEdges creation more closely with coding
patterns used in PrimitivePatch
- use fileHandler when loading "S0" field.
- Eg, with surface writers now in surfMesh, there are fewer libraries
depending on conversion and sampling.
COMP: regularize linkage ordering and avoid some implicit linkage (#1238)
