deal.II Newsletter #177

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #177.
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:

#12639: Replace AssertDimension (proposed by gfcas)
#12638: Integrate difference (proposed by gfcas)
#12637: Typos (proposed by gfcas; merged)
#12636: step-40 disable timer summary output (proposed by gfcas)
#12635: Override MGTransferGlobalCoarsening::prolongate_and_add() (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12634: Fix MGTransferMatrixFree Assert [WIP] (proposed by tjhei)
#12632: Step-47: unify code (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12631: Small modifications of FEEvaluation documentation (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12630: Add face and cell queries to FEFaceValuesBase and FEInterfaceValues (proposed by jppelteret; merged)
#12629: Fix signal residual_step (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12628: Add dof_indices() to FEInterfaceValues (proposed by jppelteret; merged)
#12627: Update test output for CUDA (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#12625: Integrate hessians on cells (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#12624: Avoid a warning about copying invalid data. (proposed by bangerth)
#12623: Added diagnostic functions for `AffineConstraints`. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#12622: Add another example to the ScalarFunctionFromFunctionObject documentation. (proposed by bangerth)
#12618: Extend documentation of TriangulationDescription (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12616: Switch from unsigned int to ConstraintTypes (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12615: Extend test (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12614: Standardized output for many `mpi/hp_unify_dof_indices_X` tests. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#12593: Evaluate and integrate hessians (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#12411: FEInterfaceValues: Make class interfaces consistent with FEValues and its views (proposed by jppelteret; merged)

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

#12633 MGTransferMatrixFree Assert failure (opened)
#12626 Missing identity constraints in 3D. (opened)
#12621 symmetric_tensor.templates.h (opened)
#12117 deal.II Release 9.3.0 (closed)

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