January 2025 News

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The January 2025 MOOSE Newsletter has been released! This is a large issue, showing a lot of development progress across MOOSE, the modules, and general bug fixes and improvements. Please see a summary below and reach out to the team with any questions.

• MOOSE Improvements
  • Added ParsedConvergence
  • New CutMeshByLevelSetGenerator
  • Restart capabilities
• MOOSE Modules Changes
  • Thermal hydraulics: New FunctorClosures
  • Fluid properties: T_from_p_h routine added to several fluid properties, modifications to TabulatedFluidProperties
  • Navier Stokes: VolumetricFlowRate extension, INSFVEnthalpyFunctorMaterial can now compute enthalpy directly, PIMPLE algorithm implementation
  • Solid Mechanics: QuasiStaticSolidMechanicsPhysics no longer creating displacement variables without block restriction, Shell Elements revisions, PressureAction is now controllable
  • XFEM: MeshCut2DFractureUserObject was added
• Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements