In the following, all relevant software changes between the release version 8.0.0 and the current update are listed.
Released February 21, 2024
Sector |
Item |
Description |
File I/O |
Record complete results (DAC file). |
Enable the recoding of custom times (on-demand) from the Record dialog during the simulation. |
Relevance |
Fixed issue |
Medium |
DXF/DWG plug-in now added as part of the FEFLOW setup. |
Medium |
Volumetric heat capacity (fluid): Unit conversion is consistent. |
Medium |
Repairing of power functions and observation points improved. |
Released December 22, 2023
Sector |
Item |
Description |
Supermesh |
Import |
Improvement of the 3D Supermesh import. |
Relevance |
Fixed issue |
Medium |
BHE-Interconnector Dialog: "Time Span" field only editable for Energy input type and constant input value. |
Medium |
Fixed issue: non-persistence of units for specific parameters. |
Medium |
Fixed issue of wrong pump-rate unit conversion factor for [hm^3/a] |
Medium |
Fixed hanging after changing the internet license. |
Medium |
Update to Geode-FEFLOW version 3.0.5. |
Medium |
Fixed the export of BHE information (incl. names in BHE Datasets). |
Medium |
Fixed crash on 3D Layer Configurator. |
Medium |
Fixed issue of deleting BHEs from edge selections. |
Medium |
Fixed import of DFS2 file into FEFLOW. |
Medium |
Well Manager: Prevent well location reinitialization upo switchin well type. |
Medium |
Well Manager: Prevent well location reinitialization upo switchin well type. |
Medium |
Well Manager: Prevent well location reinitialization upo switchin well type. |
Medium |
Well Manager: Prevent well location reinitialization upo switchin well type. |
Medium |
Fixed software crash due to coexisting of Dirichlet and BHE BCs. |
Low |
Fixed the update of selection search when switching views. |
Low |
Fixed deleting multiple selections. |
Low |
DBF and DAT export removed for polygonal- and line-export. |
Low |
Fixed software crash after importing invalid TIFF images. |
Low |
FEFLOW piFreeze documentation improved. |
Released May 15, 2023
Sector |
Item |
Description |
Supermesh |
3D Supermesh tools |
New set of interactive tools: 3D Supermesh Points, 3D Supermesh Polyline, 3D Supermesh Plane and 3D Supermesh Bounding Box. |
Supermesh |
New dialog "Add Supermesh Elements" |
The new Add Supermesh Elements dialog accessible via menu Edit allows the user the possibility to include several new map files for updating the 3D Supermesh. |
Supermesh |
Create new 3D Supermesh Elements via multiple map selection |
Several maps available in the Maps panel can be now simultaneously selected to create new 3D Supermesh Elements. |
Meshing |
New 3D mesh generator |
The generator list in the Meshing panel has been extended to include Geode 3D mesh generator. Generator supports a fully 3D meshing from an existing 3D Supermesh. |
Python |
Well Manager Inferface |
New Python interface for the Well Manager: create, edit and delete Well BC, Multilayer Wells and Borehole Heat Exchangers boundaries directly from Python. |
Python |
Material Lookup table |
Extension of FEFLOW's Enum to support material lookup tables, set/getParameterValue(ifm.Enum.LOOKUP_REGION, element ID, material ID) |
Relevance |
Fixed issue |
Medium |
Several workflow improvements and maintenance tasks associated to 3D Supermesh Remesh / Repair (Update to Geode-FEFLOW v. 2.4.3). |
Medium |
Improved handling of map files included in FEFLOW documents (*.fem, *.dac and *.smhx) |
Medium |
Assignment of slice elevation (constant elevation) from the "Extension to 3D Mesh" section in the Meshing panel is now fixed. |
Medium |
Initiatization of Kriging interpolation is now fixed. |
Medium |
Improved handling in Well Manager (GUI) for import/export functionality. |
Medium |
Improved handling in Well Manager (GUI) for unsopported FEM Problem Class (Age). |
Medium |
Fixed implementation of Time Span in the BHE Interconnector dialog. |
Low |
Several improvements in the Selections panel. |
Low |
Improved handling of set/get methods for porosity parameter used in Particle Tracking class (Python interface only). |
Released January 30, 2023
Sector |
Item |
Description |
Supermesh |
Compress 3D Supermesh file |
Introduce a compressed file format for large 3D Supermesh files. Option is available under Problem Settings - File I/O Settings. |
Supermesh |
3D Supermesh file |
Improved performance for loading Supermesh SMHX documents. |
Supermesh |
Filtering surfaces |
Supermesh Processing panel can now filter out surfaces that are not part of any closed volume. |
Supermesh |
Update of Supermesh elements |
Significant performance improvement for updating the 3D Supermesh after repairing workflow. |
Map import |
Map plug-in |
Improved performance for importing GOCAD TS files and their subsequent conversion to 3D Supermesh elements. |
Supermesh |
New inspector of boundary representation (BREP) |
Added an inspection mechanism for recognizing line segments closed to surfaces (Threshold 1e-3 to 1e-6 [m]).
Output is written under Entities panel - Surface Locations and can be used as for debugging purposes of the 3D input data. |
Relevance |
Fixed issue |
Medium |
Several bug fixes in the Supermesh surface repair (update to Geode-FEFLOW v. 2.2.2). |
Medium |
Several bug fixes in the Supermesh surface re-triangulation (update to Geode-FEFLOW v. 2.2.2). |
Medium |
Corrected assignment of Exit Probability BC in Multilayer Wells. |
Low |
Corrected display of labels for transient boundary conditions. |
Low |
Improved sign in/out to MIKE Cloud from the Simulations Cloud panel. |
Low |
Fixed performance issue in FePEST at the time to add FEFLOW observations. |
Low |
Corrected rotation center for 3D Supermeshes. |
Low |
Corrected vertical extension of BHEs and MLWs in Well Manager editor. |
Low |
Corrected display of density ratio for multi-species transport models. |
Low |
Corrected issue of TetGen sometimes not being active in the Meshing panel. |