deal.II Newsletter #279
Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #279.
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:
#16825: Bump lukka/get-cmake from 3.27.9 to 3.29.0 (proposed by dependabot[bot])
#16823: Revert aligning tensors (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16821: Deprecate some more (bool, bool, bool) orientation functions (proposed by drwells)
#16820: distributed/tria.cc: avoid FPE due to undefined behavior (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16816: No longer output the size of tensors into output file of a test. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16815: Fix a second place where particles compute the size of a buffer. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16814: Add codimension in get_name() for a few elements (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#16813: Allocate the right amount of memory when serializing particles. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16812: Test grid/closest_point: guard against roundoff error (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16811: Test trilinos/precondition: Relax iteration bounds (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16810: Test grid/grid_generator_09: add another output variant (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16809: Test mappings/mapping_q_real_to_unit_internal: add avx256 output variant (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16808: Test cgal/cgal_triangulation_05: add avx output variants (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16806: Remove hardcoded inverse orientation (proposed by drwells; merged)
#16805: Add assert on reinit() being called before get_present_fe_values() (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#16804: Add a test for COMSOL .mphtxt triangle meshes. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16803: Augment documentation of class Tensor. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16802: Fix compilation of a test. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16801: MappingQ: Do not assume contiguous storage of Tensor<2, dim> (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#16800: FEEvaluation: Modernize documentation of get_xxx/submit_xxx (proposed by kronbichler)
#16799: Remove leftover author names in GridIn. (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#16798: Instantiate MappingC1 for dim <= spacedim (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#16797: `base/tensor.h`: make a statement a bit easier to read (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16795: Add three GridGenerator functions to the python wrappers (proposed by Rombur; merged)
#16793: Fix CI using Kokkos+Cuda and CMake 3.28.4 and later (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#16791: Provide a better error message. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16790: Remove/deprecate Tensor::begin/end_raw(). (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16789: FEEvaluation: Ensure assertions in get_value/gradient are working (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#16788: FEEvaluation: Add static asserts to functions selected by enable_if (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#16787: FEEvaluation: Fix submit_gradient in 1D (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#16785: CMake: fix OpenCASCADE-7.8 configure (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#16784: Fix compiler warning for macro usage in TpetraWrappers (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#16782: Fix test environment variables for OpenMPI 5. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#16780: Consistent periodic orientation encoding (proposed by drwells; merged)
#16776: FEEvaluation: Remove specialized Access class (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#16771: Align Tensor<rank,dim,Number> to make vectorization possible. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#16765: FEPointEvaluation: Work towards dim < spacedim (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#16827 VectorizedArray<float,2> does not exist. (opened)
#16826 Regression tester regressed d72f36 (opened)
#16824 Regression tester regressed ba5fde (opened and closed)
#16822 Regression tester regressed d27057 (opened)
#16819 Linking tests to libarpack.so fails. (opened)
#16818 Remove constructor Quadrature(unsigned int). (opened)
#16817 Track whether SymEngine has been built with LLVM support. (opened)
#16807 Alignment warnings for exceptions containing (aligned) tensor with clang 14 (opened)
#16796 Aligning tensors leads to 545 failures on platforms with 256-bit vectorization. (opened and closed)
#16794 Regression tester regressed 052db7 (opened and closed)
#16792 linux debug cuda-11 CI failing (opened)
#16786 CMake: use OpenCASCADE project config instead of manual library detection (opened)
#16783 Regression tester regressed 3c2b53 (opened and closed)
#16774 Regression tester regressed 53bb2b (closed)
#11944 FEPointEvaluation: float and dim neq spacedim (closed)
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