deal.II Newsletter #193

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #193.
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:

#13035: Enable GridOut::write_gmsh() for simplex meshes (proposed by bangerth)
#13033: Install tests/tests.h (proposed by peterrum)
#13032: WorkStream cleanups (proposed by bangerth)
#13031: Minimal change to make WorkStream work with newer TBB versions. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13029: Remove references to DEAL_II_EXPLICIT_CONSTRUCTOR_BUG. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#13028: Generator for `tee` geometries. (proposed by marcfehling)
#13027: Allow accessing face numbers in data postprocessors (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13026: Adjust assert in Physics::VectorRelations. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#13025: Fix test `mpi/hp_step-4`. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#13024: Explicitly wait for tasks to be done. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13023: Add an tutorial for distributed memory parallel simulation of heat equation (proposed by MarkMa1990)
#13022: CI: replace windows-2016 by windows-2022 (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#13021: Boost includes: use BOOST_ALLOW_DEPRECATED_HEADERS to suppress warnings (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#13019: Skip a bunch of work for tests that we don't actually want. (proposed by bangerth)
#13018: Spawn tasks via the TBB again. (proposed by bangerth)
#13017: Make evaluation_kernels only include FEEvaluationData file (proposed by kronbichler)
#13016: Do not use uninitialized variable in tests (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#13015: Guard a forward declaration. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13014: Avoid unnecessary memory allocation. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13013: Move implementation for ShapeInfo to templates.h file (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#13012: Start from zero vector for MG coarse solver (proposed by kronbichler)
#13011: Use narrowest possible SIMD vector for MappingQ::InternalData (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#13010: Use a simpler way to clear a vector. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13009: Use a simpler way to initialize default arguments. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13008: Functions for calculating angles between vectors. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#13007: [WIP] Bundling Kokkos (proposed by Rombur)
#13006: Use internal rotation matrix for airfoil. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#13005: Fix a memory leak in AlignedVector. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12999: Add FEEvaluationImplHangingNodes::RunTypes::scalar (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12756: Add class NonMatching::FEValues (proposed by simonsticko; merged)

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

#13034 Wrong .prm files in step-60 (opened)
#13030 SparsityPattern serialization causing segfault (opened)
#13020 BOOST uses deprecated BOOST headers :-( (opened)
#12998 Memory leak `Table`/`AlignedVector` (closed)

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