deal.II Newsletter #133

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #133.
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:

#10896: EvaluatorTensorProduct::apply_face for higher dimensions (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10895: Replace C-style arrays in MatrixFree (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10894: Generalize p:d:SolutionTransfer for p:f:T [WIP] (proposed by peterrum)
#10893: Use parentheses to make code easier to read. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#10892: Use lambdas to make code more readable. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#10891: Make FEFaceNormalEvaluationImpl dimension independent (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10890: Improve assert message (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10889: Remove VectorType from FEFaceEvaluationSelector (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10888: Properly sort #include (proposed by elauksap; merged)
#10887: Use HDF5 for testing simplex workflows (proposed by elauksap)
#10886: Test for HDF5 now runs in parallel (proposed by elauksap)
#10885: Python method for number of triangulation cells (proposed by agrayver)
#10884: Simplex HDF5 parallel testing (proposed by elauksap)
#10883: Speed up DoFTools::extract_dofs (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#10880: Improve documentation of a rather basic function. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#10879: Use a virtual destructor with virtual methods. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#10878: Small fixes in the documentation of L:d:V (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10877: Fix statement in documentation (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10876: Reorder computations in inversion of 3x3 tensor (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#10875: Add more python wrappers for GridTools (proposed by agrayver)
#10874: CMake: Remove DEAL_II_CXX_VERSION_FLAG (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#10873: Make MemorySpaceData virtual (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10872: Add LinearAlgebra::SharedMPI::Vector [WIP] (proposed by peterrum)
#10871: Add MatrixFreeTools::categorize_by_boundary_ids (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10870: Work on interpolation from cell to face quadrature points (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10869: Add FEEvaluationImplBasisChange::do_backward_hessians (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10868: Minor fixes. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#10867: Minor clean-ups. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#10866: Simplify a piece of code. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#10865: Enable BlockVector for FEEvaluation::gather_evalute() (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10864: Get GridOut::write_eps working with triangles. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#10860: Wrap some more calls to delete with unique_ptr. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#10852: Support to HDF5 export of data on simplex meshes (proposed by elauksap; merged)
#10843: Add assert to MappingFE (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10835: Optional argument for DEAL_II_PICKUP_TESTS (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10834: Run test suite also for json files (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10786: jenkins: use Og on tester (proposed by tjhei; merged)

And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:

#10897 PH::declare_entry/get vs. ::add_parameter (opened)
#10882 Make DoFTools::extract_dofs() faster (opened)
#10881 Dimension Independent programing in step 18 (opened)
#10590 Fix property pool in ParticleHandler::insert_(global_)particles() (closed)

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