deal.II Newsletter #196
Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #196.
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:
#13211: Fix a check for zero entries in the lumped mass matrix. (proposed by drwells)
#13210: Added changelog for p4est installation script. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#13209: [9.3] Fix setup script for p4est>=2.3. (proposed by marcfehling)
#13207: Cleanups in FETools::extrapolate() (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13206: Fix a bug: Don't reuse buffers for MPI_Isend. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13204: Remove occurances of /// in source/ (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#13203: Convert manual references into bibtex ones in step-43. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13202: Faster and simpler search for lost particles (proposed by gassmoeller)
#13201: Do not output the partitioner when pretty-printing Vector objects. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13200: Updates to step-10 (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13199: Minor edits to the documentation of SparsityPattern. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13198: Be more thoughtful about parallel grain sizes in UMFPACK interfaces. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13197: Document the meaning of jump_in/average_of_* in FEInterfaceValues. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13196: Add to the documentation of SymmetricTensor::operator*. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13195: Add movie to step-67 tutorial program (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#13192: Fix manifold copying on lines when converting hexes to tets. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#13191: Simplify initialization of block systems in step-21. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13190: Simplify initialization of block systems in step-20 (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13189: Fix symbol confusion in step-52. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13188: Document a part of step-43 that confused @tjhei. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13187: Fix RemotePointEvalution::marked_vertices for vectors with only false (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13186: Use better variable names in step-43. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13185: Provide some overloads and instantiations (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13184: Fix serialization of empty SparsityPattern objects (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13183: Simplify some code. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13182: Add some more index range checks. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#13181: Extend MeshWorker::ScratchData to support hp (proposed by jppelteret)
#13180: [9.3] Boost 1.78 (proposed by drwells; merged)
#13179: OneAPI compatibility: enable oneAPI configuration in CMake, changelog (proposed by tamiko)
#13178: RemotePointEvalution: pass marked_vertices (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13177: FEPointEvaluation: fix types for multiple components (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13176: OneAPI compatibility: fix most of the API incompatibilities (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#13175: Add a changelog entry. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13174: Update step-44 documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13173: VectorTools::point_values(): fix types (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13172: Use std::string::size() instead of std::string::length(). (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13170: Add some more tests for iterator filters (proposed by jppelteret; merged)
#13168: Fix a bug in FE_Face. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13167: Simplify some code. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13165: Fix compilation with boost 1.78. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#13164: Parallelize more operations in the UMFPACK interfaces. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13163: Fix compilation error. (proposed by adamqc; merged)
#13159: Extend PreconditionRelaxation (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13157: Avoid a temp array in the UMFPACK interfaces. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13156: Also simplify parallel::accumulate_from_subranges() with lambdas. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13155: Parallelize some functions setting up UMFPACK. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13152: Refactor PreconditionRelaxation (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13150: Avoid implicit bool conversions (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#13147: Add a bit of documentation to MPI::compute_point_to_point_communication_pattern() (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13141: Add assertions and a test (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13082: Better document the NPX algorithm. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12987: Make sure MPI BigData objects are always destroyed. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12968: Trilinos parallel is_non_negative() function (proposed by juleoc02; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#13208 ConsensusAlgorithms interface (opened)
#13205 Merge SparsityPatternBase into SparsityPattern (opened)
#13194 p4est installation script cannot find `p4est_config.h` file, causing compilation error (opened)
#13193 Linker problem when compiling step-20 (opened)
#13171 Extend MeshWorker::ScratchData to support hp (opened)
#13169 Compilation Error when Combining IteratorFilter with FEInterfaceValues (opened and closed)
#13166 We are not yet compatible with SUNDIALS 6.0 (opened)
#13114 simplex/conv_hex_to_simplex_02 fails with gcc 11.2 (closed)
#13110 Modernize a small aspect of step-20/21 (closed)
#13103 Names of FEInterfaceValues functions (closed)
#13040 weird manifold id settings when converting to simplices (closed)
#13037 Compatibility with Boost 1.77 and upcoming Boost 1.78 (closed)
#13030 SparsityPattern serialization causing segfault (closed)
#12916 SparseDirectUMFPACK does not work correctly with BlockSparseMatrix (closed)
#12815 Fix typo in step-44 theory documentation (closed)
#12522 GDB Pretty Printing of Vector depends on deprecated member (closed)
#12252 Step 66 Update (closed)
#11320 step-43 uses MPI vectors but doesn't support >1 rank (closed)
#10476 [Step-52 doc] Consider using a different mathematical variable for one time-step increment (closed)
#9756 Add a movie to step-67 (closed)
#9341 [Step-10] Remove long double from example step and improve discussion of round-off errors (closed)
#6260 operator* for Tensor<2> and SymmetricTensor<2> (closed)
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