deal.II Newsletter #132

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #132.
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:

#10865: Enable BlockVector for FEEvaluation::gather_evalute() (proposed by peterrum)
#10864: Get GridOut::write_eps working with triangles. (proposed by drwells)
#10863: Enable python bindings in the docker image. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#10861: Attempt to work around a compiler warning. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#10860: Wrap some more calls to delete with unique_ptr. (proposed by drwells)
#10859: CUDA: Compute material property on the host (proposed by Rombur)
#10858: Add copy from particle handler (proposed by gassmoeller)
#10857: Fix warnings when compiling with CUDA (proposed by Rombur; merged)
#10856: Fix warnings when using cmake 3.18 (proposed by Rombur)
#10855: Fix some warnings in BoundingBox. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#10854: Fix some type limit warnings in TensorProductPolynomials. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#10853: Use contiguous arrays for some polynomial classes. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#10852: Support to HDF5 export of data on simplex meshes (proposed by elauksap)
#10851: Fix converted type rank when a SymmetricTensor is contracted with a Tensor (proposed by jppelteret; merged)
#10850: add step-50 DOI (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#10849: Make sure we keep around the sources, to allow debugging (docker). (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#10847: Try to fix docker.yml. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#10846: Update GridTools::transform for use with simplex meshes (proposed by elauksap; merged)
#10845: Do not forget to set the property pool of a particle 2 (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#10844: dox fixes MappingFE (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#10843: Add assert to MappingFE (proposed by peterrum)
#10842: Added docker file for master. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#10841: Add some brackets (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#10838: Destroy tmp matrix in mmult. (proposed by richardschu; merged)
#10820: Remove n_components template argument from FEEvaluationImpl (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#10364: Move template definitions from hdf5.cc to hdf5.h (proposed by dangars; merged)

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

#10862 Template argument n_components in FEFaceEvaluationImpl (opened)
#10848 Wrong rank for converted type when contracting a SymmetricTensor with a Tensor of different ranks. (opened and closed)

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