deal.II Newsletter #261
Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #261.
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:
#15746: [C++17] Prefer std::is_base_of_v over std::is_base_of::value. (proposed by bangerth)
#15745: Small markup fixes. (proposed by bangerth)
#15744: Add missing changelog entry about the improvement to step-68 (proposed by blaisb)
#15743: Test mpi/petsc_step-27: fix race condition for output file (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15740: [C++17] Use std::is_floating_point_v instead of std::is_floating_point<...>::value. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15739: [C++17] Use std::is_same_v instead of std::is_same<...>::value. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15737: Copy Tpetra vector if we need to call "sync" (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15736: Only warn about deprecated std_cxx17 headers for DEAL_II_EARLY_DEPRECATIONS (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15735: Make VectorizedArray::sum() const (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#15734: README.md: update and rearrange badges (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15731: Use "empty()" instead of "size() == 0" (proposed by masterleinad)
#15730: Keep track of constraints we have already determined are finalized. (proposed by bangerth)
#15729: MatrixFree: Memory consumption of mapping data faces by cells in MappingInfo (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#15727: Simplify a few places using cell->as_dof_handler_iterator(..). (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#15726: [9.5] bundled/tbb: fix compilation with gcc-13 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15725: bundled/tbb: fix compilation with gcc-13 (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15723: Don't use diff option (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15722: README.md: reorganize badges in a nice row (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15721: tests/examples/ fix script return value (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#15720: Add 1d support for ArborXWrappers (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15719: Testsuite: let run_testsuite() print a summary (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15718: empty() function for Quadrature (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#15717: Timing step-68: Fix warnings + remove unnecessary mpi call (proposed by blaisb; merged)
#15716: CMake: remove support for ctest_memcheck() and run_memorycheck.cmake (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15715: Re-add LinearAlgebra::set_zero_mean_value(). (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15713: Some more small AffineConstraints code improvements. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15711: Recommend NOX for building Trilinos. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15709: Restrict tests requiring NOX (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15708: [9.5] Guard NOX support in include/deal.II/numerics/nonlinear.h (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15707: Triangulation::CellStatus: provide proper compatibility type (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15706: SolutionTransfer for (de)serializing serial triangulations (proposed by pcafrica)
#15705: Use readability-qualified-auto clang-tidy check (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15704: Guard NOX support in include/deal.II/numerics/nonlinear.h (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15702: Fix doc typo (proposed by pcafrica; merged)
#15700: Instantiate CellAttachedData and CellAttachedDataSerializer (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#15699: Address more unnecessary calls to .c_str(). (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15697: Fix incorrect subtitles and overloaded member functions in documentation (proposed by RichardYCJ; merged)
#15696: Minor updates to GridGenerator::hyper_cube_with_cylindrical_hole(). (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15695: Minor doc update in manifold.cc. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15694: std::[io]fstream can now deal with std::string for filenames. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15689: Reorder vertices in the order in which we encounter them in cell loops. (proposed by bangerth)
#15688: Remove class VectorSpaceVector. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15687: Assert some basic mesh consistency notions. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15686: Make sure we always generate consistently oriented meshes. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15684: CMake: avoid "binding to none" for performance tests (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15683: Make sure get_fe_by_name works for simplices. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#15682: Replace use of C-style array by std::array. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15681: Update cmake variable documentation (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#15678: Fix face orientation (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#15677: KINSOL: allow for custom setup (proposed by sebproell; merged)
#15671: Avoid const return type in functions (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#15667: Remove reference to VectorSpaceVector from ReadWriteVector's documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#15652: github: update linux runners (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#15610: bundle taskflow 3.6.0 (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#15576: Unified interface for serializing triangulations. (proposed by pcafrica; merged)
#15538: Use ArborX for spatial search in `guess_owners_of_entities()` (proposed by fdrmrc; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#15742 Performance regression: various grid and particle operations gentoo-userland-clang-16 versus debian-bullseye-gcc-10 (opened)
#15741 Performance regression: timing-navier_stokes/setup_matrix_free (opened)
#15738 Can deal.ii include the finite difference method? (opened and closed)
#15733 Rethink deprecation of the <deal.II/base/std_cxx17/*> header files. (opened and closed)
#15732 Regression tester regressed 79ac9c (opened and closed)
#15728 Regression tester regressed 0847ac (opened and closed)
#15724 Compilation error with gcc-13.0.1/gcc-13.1.1 and bundled tbb (opened and closed)
#15714 dealii induces unnecessary dependencies (like OpenCascade, sundials) on its users when users are built as shared objects (opened and closed)
#15712 Warning in performance test step-68 (opened and closed)
#15710 Optimize product of symmetric tensors (opened)
#15703 `p::d::SolutionTransfer` for (de)serializing serial triangulations (opened)
#15701 Strategy with threading: Tasks, parallel for loops, etc (opened)
#15698 Regression tester regressed 629865 (opened and closed)
#15693 libdeal_II.so links with libX11.so? (opened and closed)
#15692 On FreeBSD with external Kokkos with openmp enabled: quicktest failures. (opened and closed)
#15691 Fixing the display problems of member functions of some classes in documentation (opened and closed)
#15690 CMake: should warn or indicate that DEAL_II_WITH_KOKKOS and DEAL_II_WITH_BOOST is always on. (opened)
#15685 Invalid cell connection generated between child cells (opened and closed)
#15680 Regression tester regressed c61d59 (opened and closed)
#14405 Potential deadlock in ConsensusAlgorithm::NBX on some systems (closed)
#8271 [Homepage] Update Survey results from 2016 (closed)
#8270 [Homepage] https://www.dealii.org/ideas.html (closed)
#3073 Remove VectorSpaceVector. (closed)
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