Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #93.
It automatically reports recently merged features and discussions about the deal.II finite element library.
Below you find a list of recently proposed or merged features:
#8751: Move operator== from a test to the CellData class itself. (proposed by bangerth)
#8750: Create p:f:ConstructionData by a selected group of processes (proposed by peterrum)
#8749: Improve performance of DoFHandler::distribute_mg_dofs (proposed by kronbichler)
#8748: Add boost serialization for ConstructionData (proposed by peterrum)
#8747: Change gzip compression level to best_speed (proposed by kronbichler)
#8746: Add Boost serialization function to CellData (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8745: Update the documentation of the MeshWorker::LocalResults class. (proposed by bangerth)
#8743: Fix the bounds of an index computation. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8742: Change TensorProductPolynomialsBubbles from "is-a" to "has-a" TensorProductPolynomials (proposed by GrahamBenHarper)
#8741: Updates to the step-65 documentation. (proposed by bangerth)
#8739: add functions to access svd u and vt variables (proposed by MFraters)
#8738: Update readme. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8737: Add CellId::is_parent_of (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8736: doxygen: rewrite set_canonical_doxygen.py in Perl (proposed by fvanmaele)
#8732: Move the call to update_number_cache() after all other calls. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8731: p:d:step-27: Adjusted AdditionalData object for Trilinos. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#8730: add interface for user defined GMG constraints (proposed by tcclevenger)
#8728: Embed vector operations in MatrixFree cell loops (proposed by kronbichler)
#8727: Avoid deprecated FE argument in distribute_mg_dofs (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#8726: Simplify matrix_free/parallel_multigrid_adaptive_03 test (proposed by kronbichler)
#8725: Fix doxygen documenation of p:d:t (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8724: Generalize an if-statement for all parallel triangulations (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8723: Change TensorProductPolynomials and AnisotropicPolynomials to derive from ScalarPolynomialsBase (proposed by GrahamBenHarper)
#8722: step-26: Doc: Fixed positivity preservation criterion. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#8721: Fix typo in step 50 (proposed by dangars; merged)
#8720: Clarify the degree of the elements NedelecSZ and Nedelec (proposed by dangars; merged)
#8719: fix broken step-56 (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8717: Remove an unnecessary friend declaration. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8716: Make a variable 'const'. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8713: Put implementation details of FEFaceEvaluation into separate file (proposed by kronbichler)
#8712: Major redesign of hp::Refinement. (proposed by marcfehling)
#8711: Remove PolynomialType template argument from FE_Poly (proposed by GrahamBenHarper)
#8709: Add maxwell singularity test (proposed by dangars)
#8703: Fix compiling with CUDA support (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8701: VectorizedArray: Implement a compare_and_apply_mask function (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8668: Split MappingCartesian::compute_fill into several functions. (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#8655: corrects the no. of output lines in description of results for step-3 documentation (proposed by krishnakumarg1984; merged)
#8648: Make postprocessors work when using complex-valued solutions. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#8744 Adding deal.II to Compiler Explorer (opened)
#8740 CellDataTransferBuffer in dof handler is super slow (opened)
#8735 doxygen: avoid Python dependency for setting canonical links (opened)
#8734 Treat periodic neighbors correctly in compute_vertices_with_ghost_neighbors (opened)
#8733 PETSc SolverControl: Maximum number of iterations truncated? (opened)
#8729 PETSc issue: Convergence failure with hp-adaptivity (opened)
#8718 Step-56: Error in debug configuration (opened and closed)
#8715 Failing to install deal.II on an old Mac using Spack (opened and closed)
#8714 doxygen: ordinal not in range (Ubuntu 18.04) (opened and closed)
#8710 Fichera corner Maxwell simulation fails (opened and closed)
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