deal.II Newsletter #210

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #210.
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:

#13664: Cgal surface to deal.II triangulation (proposed by fdrmrc)
#13663: MGConstrainedDoFs::add_boundary_indices() (proposed by zjiaqi2018)
#13661: Cgal triangulation (proposed by luca-heltai)
#13660: Fesystem indexing (proposed by drwells; merged)
#13659: Silence warnings from Sacado in user projects. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#13658: Assert that a method was choosen in the time stepping methods. (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#13657: Add class NonMatching::FEInterfaceValues (proposed by simonsticko)
#13656: Cleanup artifacts (proposed by luca-heltai)
#13655: Update documentation in DataOutFaces. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13654: Ghost particle property pool breakage (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#13653: Add CGAL::Surface_mesh support (proposed by fdrmrc)
#13652: Instantiate make_periodicity_constraints for all scalar numbers (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#13651: Add float instanciations to `DoFTools::make_periodicity_constraints` (proposed by NiklasWik)
#13650: Remove unnecessary include. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13648: Add DataPostprocessors::BoundaryIds. (proposed by bangerth)
#13647: Add function to simplex docs. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#13646: Add simple test that breaks property pool in debug (proposed by blaisb)
#13645: step-44: Change the FE space used for p,J (proposed by jppelteret; merged)
#13644: Added support for CGAL library. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#13628: Add a new renumbering function for data locality with MatrixFree (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#13627: Glossary edit for material ids (proposed by singima; merged)
#13625: Add enable_abort_on_exception (proposed by elauksap; merged)
#13593: Installation problem with MPI on Windows (proposed by DaneilSun; merged)
#13564: Provide a count_cycles() function. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#13543: remove notes on indentation from documentation (proposed by nfehn; merged)

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

#13662 Redundant template parameter for MGSmoother (opened)
#13649 Failing test with bundled BOOST (opened and closed)
#13643 A bug in particles class (closed)
#13531 Why does "coding conventions" contain information on "indentation"? (closed)
#11612 Step-44: Use FE_DGP instead of FE_DGPMonomial? (closed)

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