New features

Move vtk and pyvista to optional dependency. Use pip install py-caelus[viz] to install with vtk/pyvista dependencies
Remove unused scipy dependency
Upgrade package specification to pyproject.toml and deprecate setup.py files

Update parser to handle dimensioned values. Now supports macro variables for values as well as dimensioned values without key.
Fix package naming to handle both pip and conda installs consistently

Drop support for older python releases. Requires Python v3.10 or higher.
Introduce support for Engys Helyx as an alternate OpenFOAM environment.
Updates to OpenFOAM input file interface
- Allow expansion of #include and #includeEtc directives
- Perform macro expansions of variables with $ prefix
Function object update, enhance support for
- Sampling (planes, surfaces)
- Probes
- Forces, forceCoeffs, etc.
- Residuals

Introduce support for OpenFOAM environment management and build infrastructure within CPL. This allows the user to manage and interact with multiple OpenFOAM or CML versions via python. See docs for more details.
Add user-defined functions to parametric run interface. Allows user to customize the behavior of various stages (e.g., prep, post) via hooks. Also allows user to completely bypass built-in steps.

Pythonic interface to interact and manage CML run directories
- CML dictionary parsers and I/O utilities to interact with input files (create, edit, format, etc.)
- New classes: CMLSimulation and ParametricRun
- New command caelus_sim to manage parametric run workflows
New sub-commands within caelus:
- caelus build -- Compile CML and user sources using CPL
- caelus runpy -- Run python scripts via CPL environment. Also available as a Task
Use CML SCons environment information to populate CMLEnv, if available

Documentation

Bugfix release, the following bugs were fixed:

New features:

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