deal.II Newsletter #299
Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #299.
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:
#17714: Make sure the SmartPointer template remains accessible. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17711: Also rename the Subscriptor base class. (proposed by bangerth)
#17710: Add changelog for normal hessian functions (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#17709: Fix normal_hessian functions for arbitrary number of components (proposed by koch-andreas; merged)
#17708: Add a forgotten closing parenthesis. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17707: Make improvements to the WorkStream colored implementation (proposed by RyanMoulday; merged)
#17705: AffineConstraints::compute_locally_relevant_constraints() skip step (proposed by peterrum)
#17704: Use Utilties::MPI::compute_index_owner() instead of lower-level facilities. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17702: Better document an algorithm. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17701: Clarify documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17700: Make clear what a boolean argument corresponds to. (proposed by bangerth)
#17699: `AffineConstraints`: Improve loop (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17698: Remove a section about ways to use doxygen that we don't use. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17697: Remove references to BlockMatrixArray from the documentation. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17695: Minor cleanups to AffineConstraints to make code easier to read. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17693: Make the semantics of a lambda capture clear. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17690: More tests for ParsedFunction. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17689: Rename SmartPointer -> ObserverPointer. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17688: add Scott-Vogelius test (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#17687: TriaAccessor::face(): consolidate implementations via `if constexpr`. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#17686: Fix a changelog date. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17685: Bump crate-ci/typos from 1.24.3 to 1.24.5 (proposed by dependabot[bot]; merged)
#17684: WorkStream support for particle sorting (proposed by RyanMoulday)
#17683: Use TaskResult::emplace_object() in class Lazy. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17681: GridGenerator::convert_hypercube_to_simplex_mesh: code cleanup (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#17679: Ensure SmartPointer gives useful compiler errors for types not derived from Subscriptor. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17678: Triangulation::get_boundary_ids(): don't return duplicates. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#17677: Update documentation of class SmartPointer. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17676: Test that one can put a SmartPointer into a std::any object. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17675: Rename a member of class SmartPointer. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17671: Update tidy tester to ubuntu 24.04. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#17662: Patched GridTools::transform() to work on anisotropically refined meshes in 3D as well (proposed by rgoermer; merged)
#17639: add GridGenerator::alfeld_split_of_simplex_mesh (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#17408: Symmetrize fourth order tensor (proposed by vinayakvijay; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#17716 computing 3D rotation matrix for small angles (opened)
#17715 failed to build dealii v9.5.2 on linux, target object_numerics_inst, expected type-specifier before << split >> (opened)
#17713 `SmartPointer` compatibility (opened and closed)
#17712 Missing instantiations for `TrilinosWrappers::SparseMatrix::vmult` when compiling a user project linked against deal.II compiled with clang (opened)
#17706 failed to build deal.II-9.5.1 with LAPACK provided by MKL. (opened)
#17703 Break out a part of the ComputeIndexOwner::ConsensusAlgorithmsPayload functionality. (opened)
#17696 Deprecate IntegrationInfo and IntegrationInfoBox. (opened)
#17694 Improve implementation of TaskFlow-based implementation of WorkStream. (opened and closed)
#17692 Make AffineConstraints::make_consistent_in_parallel() more efficient, part 2. (opened and closed)
#17691 Make AffineConstraints::make_consistent_in_parallel() more efficient, part 1. (opened)
#17665 Regression tester regressed 270aba (closed)
#17653 Regression tester regressed 64e9c0 (closed)
#17646 Regression tester regressed 2285fb (closed)
#17643 Regression tester regressed [baseline] (closed)
#17535 Ensure 'Function constant' in ParsedFunction is a constant, not an expression. (closed)
#17403 Symmetrize tensors of type Tensor<4,3> (closed)
#17318 Fix Lazy's approach to tasking. (closed)
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