deal.II Newsletter #209

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #209.
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:

#13642: Matrix-free Piola transformation for affine cells (proposed by NiklasWik)
#13641: Implement MGLevelObject::back() (proposed by peterrum)
#13637: Introduce MGTransferBlockGlobalCoarsening (proposed by peterrum)
#13636: Simplify MGTransferBlockMatrixFreeBase::copy_to_mg() (proposed by peterrum)
#13635: [WIP] Use p:d:T::find_point_owner_rank() in GridTools (proposed by peterrum)
#13634: Remove parameter use_fast_hanging_node_algorithm from MF (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13633: Write DEAL_II_SOURCE_DIR to Config.cmake (proposed by peterrum)
#13632: Change cell type passed to DiscreteQuadratureGenerator::generate() (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#13631: Fixes CMake version > 3.12 python-binding build failure (proposed by CorbinFoucart)
#13630: Cleanup includes (proposed by drwells; merged)
#13629: Fix typo in variable name (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#13628: Add a new renumbering function for data locality with MatrixFree (proposed by kronbichler)
#13627: Glossary edit for material ids (proposed by singima)
#13626: Changes to XDMFEntry to use uint64_t data types (proposed by singima; merged)
#13625: Add enable_abort_on_exception (proposed by elauksap)
#13624: fixing typo of the type 'the the' (proposed by cdev911; merged)
#13617: Using uint64_t as node variables for hdf5 output (proposed by singima; merged)
#13615: Quadrature generator with discrete levelset (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#13610: FEInterfaceValues::get_jump/average_*_function_values (proposed by zjiaqi2018; merged)
#13573: Add functions to MGTools (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13341: Add iota views to FEEval (proposed by peterrum; merged)

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

#13643 A bug in particles class (opened)
#13640 Deprecated boost header (opened)
#13639 build fail on riscv64 arch (opened)
#13638 hdf5 tests fail (opened)
#12780 Reevaluate MF::AdditionalData::use_fast_hanging_node_algorithm (closed)
#11206 Brainstorming - Re-design the data storage structure used in the ParticleHandler (closed)
#10928 Interfaces to `FEEvaluationImpl` & co (closed)

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