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Add a hydraulic head BC

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Description

For fluid-flow problems with gravity enabled, it would be useful to have a constant hydraulic head boundary condition, which would set the fluid pressure equal to:

p(x, y, z) = rho * g * (head - z)

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue, so first locate the existing fluid-flow boundary-condition implementations and their tests. Add a constant hydraulic head condition for gravity-enabled problems using the stated pressure relationship, then verify that the boundary pressure matches the formula.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
hpc
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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