deal.II Newsletter #218

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #218.
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:

#14101: Vector tools project 1 (proposed by gfcas)
#14099: [WIP] RPE: allow to evaluate cell-data vector (proposed by peterrum)
#14097: Clean cgal utilities (proposed by fdrmrc)
#14096: Function to restrict matrices (proposed by peterrum)
#14094: [CI] limit parallelism in docker master build (proposed by tjhei)
#14093: Fix formatting (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#14092: Bugfix: Use correct relative tolerance in MappingCartesian assert. (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#14091: DoFTools::make_periodicity_constraints move asserts (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#14090: FEEvaluationBase::read_write_operation_contiguous enable masking (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#14089: Added explicit instantiations of DoFTools::distribute_cell_to_dof_vector (proposed by a-shahba)
#14088: [9.4] Take over multiple PRs (proposed by peterrum)
#14087: doxygen: fix errors in formulas (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14086: doxygen: fix SymmetricTensor friends (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#14085: FEEvaluationBase::read_write_operation case 3: enable masking (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#14084: Be explicit regarding zero tolerance in merge_triangulations (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#14083: Fix bug when we have no line dofs in assignment/renumbering of face mg dofs (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#14082: Restructure execute_refinement(Triangulation<3, spacedim>&) (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#14081: Add function to extract raw coarsen flags (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#14080: Use get_line_indices_of_cell in DoFHandlerPolicy (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#14076: Use faster data structure to compute matrix-free renumbering (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#14059: find_active_cell_around_point should only find cells with marked vertices (proposed by jh66637; merged)
#14055: Add cross-references for global indices (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#13962: Support HDF5 output with one rank having no cells (proposed by tjhei; merged)

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

#14100 GridTools::compute_active_cell_halo_layer() not working for PBC (opened)
#14098 Performance of FEEvaluation::read_dof_values with masks (opened)
#14095 doxygen errors (opened)
#14053 Sundials test fail. (closed)

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