deal.II Newsletter #300
Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #300.
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:
#17785: Fix cubic simplex constraints. (proposed by drwells)
#17784: fix flaky trilinos/solver_control_06 (proposed by tjhei)
#17783: Improve an error message. (proposed by bangerth)
#17782: Introduce `LAPACKFullMatrix::get_state()` (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17781: Introduce `CellIDTranslator.translate_level()` (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17780: FunctionFromFunctionObjects: accept single function (proposed by peterrum)
#17779: Add assert to `FE_Hermite` (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17778: Introduce Utilities::MPI::compute_index_owner_and_requesters() (proposed by peterrum)
#17777: Rename EnableObserverPointer files. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17775: Bump crate-ci/typos from 1.25.0 to 1.26.0 (proposed by dependabot[bot]; merged)
#17774: Add a forgotten changelog. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17772: Fix type in SparsityPattern (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17770: CMake: support mutliple-configuration generators in `deal_ii_invoke_autopilot()` (proposed by tamiko)
#17769: Fix warning (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17768: CMake: force a single configuration in "multiple generator" mode (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#17765: Don't define _LIBCPP_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS for clang++-19 and later (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#17764: FEInterfaceValues: fix some warnings. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#17763: check an invariant of class IndexSet (proposed by fernandohv3279; merged)
#17761: Error out for situations clearly not implemented. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17760: Add comments clarifying some numbers. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17758: Fix typo: jacobian -> Jacobian (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17756: Simplify MGCoarseGridIterativeSolver (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17755: Nedelec orientation fix nr.1. (proposed by cembooks)
#17754: FEFaceEvaluation: Enable access of exterior values on ghosted faces (proposed by bergbauer; merged)
#17753: replaced void cast with [[maybe_unused]] (proposed by webwurli; merged)
#17752: [WIP] Introduce TriangulationDescription::Description::reorder_coarse_grid() (proposed by peterrum)
#17751: TableHandler::set_scientific(): fix int (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17750: Use CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_CONFIGURATION for MSVC (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#17748: Increase performance of GridTools::get_vertex_connectivity_of_cells (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#17747: SparsityTools::reorder_hierarchical: better documentation and implementation (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#17746: Update indent worker to ubuntu-24.04. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#17745: Don't call simplex support experimental (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17744: Replace std::array with Kokkos::Array in Tensor (proposed by Rombur)
#17743: Update documentation of some SolutionTransfer functions. (proposed by marcfehling; merged)
#17740: Return earlier if possible inside `FEPointEvaluation::evaluate` (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#17739: CMake: Bugfix: use #cmakedefine defining/undefining preprocessor macro (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#17737: A fix for a bug in the time table (proposed by cembooks; merged)
#17736: Fix typo in an internal class name (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#17734: Add AlignedVector::insert(). (proposed by drwells; merged)
#17733: Remove some tests from linux.yml (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17732: Generalize compute_matrix to multiple dof_handlers with a block matrix (proposed by nlsmrg)
#17731: ScalarFunctionFromFunctionObject for time-dependent functions (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17730: NoncontiguousPartitioner: introduce n_components (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17729: Mark constructors of FEValuesExtractor classes as 'constexpr'. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17727: Generalize MGTransferMF so that it works for FE_DGP (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17726: update tutorial index to mention python notebooks (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#17725: capitalize Python and Jupyter (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#17724: Bump crate-ci/typos from 1.24.5 to 1.24.6 (proposed by dependabot[bot]; merged)
#17720: FunctionParser: document where we use commas. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#17717: Add empty() function to deal.II/hp/collection.h and use it instead of size() == 0 (proposed by fernandohv3279; merged)
#17711: Also rename the Subscriptor base class. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#17666: Generalized read_msh to allow for comments (proposed by mivaia; merged)
#17614: CellAccessor::neighbor() documentation (proposed by rgoermer; merged)
#17433: Modularize MatrixFreeTools::compute_diagonal() (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#17306: `FEInterfaceValues`: fill indices for `TriaIterator<CellAccessor>` (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12663: Add MGCoarseGridApplyPreconditioner (proposed by peterrum; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#17776 windows dll - deadlock when creating threadpool (opened)
#17773 Regression tester regressed bb4013 (opened and closed)
#17771 Regression tester regressed 931803 (opened and closed)
#17767 Native Windows: linkage error in user projects (opened)
#17766 CMake: support multiple generator setup (at least in user projects) (opened)
#17762 IndexSet should not have a pop_back()/pop_front() function (opened)
#17759 Attempting to construct an FESystem with cubic FE_SimplexP elements throws an assert while running FESystem::Initialize() (opened)
#17757 Compilation failure with CGAL version 6.0_beta1 (opened and closed)
#17749 Provide option to reorder grid cells in fulldistributed::Triangulation? (opened)
#17742 Regression tester regressed 254957 (opened and closed)
#17741 Regression tester regressed 6626ae (opened and closed)
#17738 Build failure with arm neon intrinsics (opened and closed)
#17735 Include file information for namespaces in documentation (opened)
#17728 Performance regressions due to switch to Taskflow (opened)
#17723 Build fails: sundials/n_vector.templates.h:756:18: error: const_cast to 'SUNComm' (aka 'int'), which is not a reference, pointer-to-object, or pointer-to-data-member (opened)
#17722 Replace std::min(b, std::max(x,a)) by std::clamp(x, a, b). (opened)
#17721 test lazy_04 hangs randomly (opened)
#17719 Make DoFRenumbering::component_wise() work with FEValuesExtractors. (opened)
#17718 Link-time optimization issues. (opened)
#17706 failed to build deal.II-9.5.1 with LAPACK provided by MKL. (closed)
#17438 Error using FE_DGP with MGTransferGlobalCoarsening (closed)
#17386 Remove step-52 and deal.II time steppers? (closed)
#9684 [Step-52] Dopri error in the results incorrect? (closed)
#7191 step-52: Diffusion not working? (closed)
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