deal.II Newsletter #254
Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #254.
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:
#15239: Fix the number of pyramid lines and one pyramid table. (proposed by drwells)
#15238: Initialize and check an assertion in the NOX solver. (proposed by bangerth)
#15237: Properly treat exceptions in a user callback in NOX. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15236: Minor updates to the NOX solver documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15235: Fix Tpetra for newer Trilinos (proposed by masterleinad)
#15233: fix bug in find_active_cell_around_point (proposed by richardschu)
#15231: improve documentation for PETSc SNES (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#15230: Patterns: Fix parsing lists of lists (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15229: MatrixFree: Avoid setting face vectorization group boundary in serial (proposed by kronbichler)
#15228: Avoid compiler warning (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#15226: Tpetra is not functional without sync() function (proposed by sebproell)
#15223: Convert ARKode interfaces to conform to our callback policy. (proposed by bangerth)
#15222: Minor doc improvement in step-6. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15221: Update output of step-77. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15220: fix some compiler warnings (proposed by richardschu; merged)
#15219: fixed some compiler warnings in tria.cc (proposed by richardschu)
#15218: Add a function for computing distances to unit cells. (proposed by drwells)
#15217: Make MatrixFree evaluation kernels more flexible w.r.t. number type (proposed by kronbichler)
#15216: SUNDIALS: remove outdated copy functionality (proposed by sebproell; merged)
#15215: Face path for FEPointEvaluation (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#15214: Fix step-77 NOX test (proposed by sebproell; merged)
#15212: Fix Kokkos compilation with GCC 13. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#15211: FEPointEvaluation: Use template argument consistently (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#15210: Fix step-77: zero out residual before assembly (proposed by sebproell; merged)
#15209: Integrate DG into non-nested MG (proposed by jh66637)
#15208: Fix typo in documentation (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#15207: Tensor product kernels: Use the right type in some templated functions (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#15206: Fix warnings with gcc-13.1 (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15205: CMake: create a compile_commands.json symlink (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15204: Adds create_with_same_size function (proposed by MarcelKoch)
#15203: Updates Ginkgo solver wrappers (proposed by MarcelKoch)
#15202: Adds wrappers for Ginkgo matrices (proposed by MarcelKoch)
#15200: Use Kokkos to launch kernels in CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree (proposed by Rombur)
#15199: Allow finding user-installed HDF5 (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15197: Add an abstract base class ReadVector purely for vector access. (proposed by drwells)
#15196: Avoid variables named 'import', part 2. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15195: [WIP] Avoid the name 'import' as a function name. (proposed by bangerth)
#15194: KINSOL: do not copy vectors internally (proposed by sebproell; merged)
#15193: Remove overhead from AlignedVector in FEFaceNormalEvaluationImpl (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#15191: Avoid variables named 'import'. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15189: Add a test with an irrecoverable failure of KINSOL. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15188: Clean up after ourselves. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15187: Catch and rethrow *all* exceptions. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15186: Let NOX callbacks conform to our new standard for callback errors. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#15234 Documentation not showing up correctly - issue with DEAL_II_CXX20_REQUIRES (opened)
#15232 Linker fails due to hwloc (opened)
#15227 Parameter Pattern for list of lists is not parsed correctly (opened and closed)
#15225 SolutionTransfer: Implement more general interpolation algorithms (opened)
#15224 Allow vectors in MatrixFree context to skip constrained DoFs (opened)
#15213 nvcc fatal : A single input file is required for a non-link phase when an outputfile is specified (opened)
#15201 Potential floating point comparison issue in AffineConstraints<number>::is_consistent_in_parallel (opened)
#12066 Use N_Vector wrappers in KINSOL interfaces (closed)
#12025 Fix MatrixFree::find_vector_in_mf for multiple DoFHandler/AffineConstrains (closed)
#8437 Look over clang-format indentation with many specifiers (closed)
#7357 SphericalManifold inaccurate/broken (closed)
#2000 DoFHandler index handling (closed)
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