deal.II Newsletter #274

[Rene Gassmoeller‏]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #274.
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:

#16641: Added complex sparse matrix instantiations. (proposed by MalikScheifinger)
#16640: Clarify the documentation of IndexSet::is_empty(). (proposed by bangerth)
#16639: Declare conversion assignments for Tpetra vectors. (proposed by bangerth)
#16638: Add missing changelog entry for colorize cylinder_shell (proposed by blaisb; merged)
#16637: Fix Tpetra vector element access. (proposed by bangerth)
#16634: MPI compute index owner: improve documentation of flag (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#16633: MG transfer global coarsening: Avoid sending empty messages (proposed by kronbichler)
#16632: GridTools::compute_active_cell_halo_layer() for periodic meshes (proposed by peterrum)
#16631: ConsensusAlgorithmsPayload: switch internal data type (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#16630: Add colorize option to cylinder_shell (proposed by blaisb; merged)
#16629: GitHub CI: Test building with Trilinos+Tpetra (proposed by masterleinad)
#16628: Specify when Tpetra tests should be run (proposed by jpthiele; merged)
#16626: Tpetra: Fix compiling with Trilinos versions prior to 13.2 (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#16625: Add tests for deal.II solvers with TpetraWrappers classes (proposed by jpthiele; merged)
#16624: Enable MatrixCreator functions also for FullMatrix (proposed by peterrum)
#16621: Import BOOST 1.84. (proposed by bangerth)
#16620: Fix the name by which we reference an exception class. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16619: FEFaceEvaluation + DG + hp: fix quadrature indexing (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#16617: CMake: make sure that bundled include directory gets created (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16616: Tpetra: Implement operator(), el(), and diag_element() for SparseMatrix (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#16615: FlexibleIndexStorage: fix memory allocation (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#16614: Template TpetraWrappers::SparseMatrix::vmult on the vector type. (proposed by kinnewig)
#16613: Implementation for TpetraWrappers::Vector::operator Number() (proposed by kinnewig; merged)
#16612: fix strip_comments target (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#16611: [WIP] Add Tpetra tests. (proposed by bangerth)
#16610: Also instantiate the Trilinos Tpetra VectorReference class. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16609: Fix 64-bit compilation with old PETSc versions. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16608: Work around an issue in Teuchos::rcpFromRef() with types only forward declared. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16607: Improve the error message we get for DEAL_II_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE(). (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16606: Fix compilation error arising with Intel ICC compiler in `trilinos_tpetra_sparsity_pattern.cc` (proposed by vovannikov; merged)
#16604: Tpetra: Replace TrilinosScalar (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#16603: Fix deal.II CMake flag in Tpetra configure warning (proposed by jpthiele; merged)
#16602: Add SolverDirect for Tpetra Wrappers (proposed by jpthiele)
#16601: Better document a funny construct. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16600: Convert tutorials to use DEAL_II_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE(). (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16599: Explain how DEAL_II_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE() is used. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16598: Tpetra: Enable lac/linear_operator_15 (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#16594: Better document problems with failed MPI I/O calls. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16593: More minor edits to tria_description.cc. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16592: Better document one aspect of what you can't do with ghosted vectors. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16581: Introduce DEAL_II_UNREACHABLE(). (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16497: Move matrix free classes from CUDAWrappers namespace to Portable namespace (proposed by Rombur; merged)

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

#16642 Regression tester regressed 7f9acd (opened)
#16636 Tpetra Solver and Preconditioner wrappers (opened)
#16635 Failure with Tpetra vectors: nonlocal_vector is not available. (opened)
#16627 Regression tester regressed c80a4a (opened and closed)
#16623 Regression tester regressed 3cca8f (opened and closed)
#16622 Problem when Installing the software on windows (opened)
#16618 Update bundled boost (opened)
#16605 CMake: bundled directory included when bundled muparser is selected (opened and closed)

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