Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #117.
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:
#9851: do not build release on github actions OSX (proposed by tjhei)
#9850: Document the mental model of DiscreteTime. (proposed by bangerth)
#9849: Fix some warnings in tests with clang-10 (proposed by masterleinad)
#9848: [CI]: add GitHub actions linux release build (proposed by tjhei)
#9847: Rename NoncontiguousPartitioner::update_values() [WIP] (proposed by peterrum)
#9846: Update documentation of NoncontiguousPartitioner (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#9845: Fix some Doxygen warnings (proposed by rezarastak; merged)
#9844: Build debug and release with Actions (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#9843: Do not verify MPI_HAVE_MPI_SEEK_SET during cross compiling (proposed by dangars)
#9842: Output step-62 results as a complex-valued vector (proposed by dangars; merged)
#9841: Use more range-based for loops. (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#9840: Move implementation of DoFHandler and hp::DoFHandler (proposed by peterrum)
#9838: step-47 - fix typos (proposed by jwitte08; merged)
#9837: Update Epetra link (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9836: Make TpetraWrappers appear in Doxygen (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9835: Parallelize the main loops of MappingInfo::compute_mapping_q (proposed by kronbichler)
#9834: Step-63: Fix two typos (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#9833: fixes issue 9722 by correctly writing time data into a aggregate pvd ... (proposed by krishnakumarg1984)
#9832: This is the actual fix for issue #9722. Not the earlier PR #9754 (proposed by krishnakumarg1984)
#9831: Implement functionality from Hypercube on BoundingBox (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#9830: Doc of Tensor and SymmetricTensor improved. (proposed by rezarastak)
#9829: FETools: Add additional lexicographic_to_hierarchic_numbering functions (proposed by kronbichler)
#9828: Wrapper for SuperLU-MT linear solver (proposed by KParas)
#9827: Fix bug in VectorTools::get_position_vector for high order mappings (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#9826: Do not use FE_Q in MappingQGeneric (proposed by kronbichler)
#9825: Fix warning in Utilities::MPI for serial release build (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9822: Place figures for 2d/3d quarter hyper ball in same line (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#9821: Remove deprecated class PArpackSolver::Shift (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#9819: Add Utilities::MPI::compute_set_union (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9818: A few doxygen-related fixes. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#9817: Require gcc 4.9 and clang 4.0. (proposed by bangerth)
#9816: more boost warning guards (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#9815: Allow outputting complex-valued vector and tensor fields (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#9814: Add a missing assertion. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#9813: Simplify some code by using a range-based for loop. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#9812: Fix get_boundary_ids() and get_manifold_ids() for parallel triangulations (proposed by peterrum)
#9811: Simplify instantiation of DoFHandler and hp::DoFHandler (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9810: Add functions accepting hp::DoFHandler to BlockInfo (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9809: new function Triangulation::has_boundary_id() (proposed by nfehn)
#9808: Simplify DoFCellAccessorImplementation::update_cell_dof_indices_cache() (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9807: Add additional cell options for 3D hyper shell (proposed by kronbichler)
#9806: Use AE spelling 'disk' instead of BE spelling 'disc'. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#9805: Make the spelling of 'add_parameter()' arguments consistent. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#9803: Fix oversight in GridGenerator::hyper_ball in 2d (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#9802: Add alternative GridGenerator::hyper_ball with better balance of cells (proposed by kronbichler)
#9801: Remove PointerMatrix* (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#9800: Minimize boost/geometry.h includes (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#9799: Minor cleanups. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#9798: guard boost includes with macro (proposed by tjhei)
#9797: Remove unused functions (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9796: Improve mesh quality of quarter hyper ball (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#9795: Fix GridIn::read_vtk (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9793: MappingQGeneric: Copy mapping support points to quadrature points (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#9792: Allow vector_adaptor to work on ghosted vectors. (proposed by dougshidong; merged)
#9791: Simplify DoFCellAccessor::distribute_local_to_global() (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9789: remove boost/geometry.hpp from Point (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#9788: Fix portability issue (proposed by Rombur)
#9787: Encode and decode Base64 format. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#9786: Remove deprecated class FilteredMatrix (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#9785: Remove SwappableVector (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#9784: Implement default initializer for EigenvalueInformation (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#9783: Pass ExcNoMatch the description directly (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9767: Add output variants for new MF::MappingInfo test (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#9758: Explicitly spell dealii::parallel in multiple places (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9739: GridTools/GridGenerator: add some functions to support dim-independent programming (proposed by nfehn; merged)
#9718: improve robustness and usability of ParameterHandler (proposed by nfehn; merged)
#9707: Print a reduced parameter tree for XML and JSON (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#9636: Step-69: Introduce asynchronous IO mechanism (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8824: The class DiscreteTime implemented. (proposed by rezarastak; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#9839 Merge DoFHandler and hp::DoFHandler (opened)
#9824 Add specialised transformations for stress tensors and material tangents (opened)
#9823 Implement coupled material invariants & derivatives (opened)
#9820 Warning in release mode with no MPI (opened and closed)
#9804 GridGenerator::hyper_ball with internal manifolds (opened)
#9794 pre-compiled polynomial degrees for FEEvaluation (opened)
#9790 compilation speed-up (opened)
#9703 ParameterHandler: add new print_parameters() (closed)
#9613 CI: add a check that compiles in release mode (closed)
#8850 Disagreement between MappingQ and MappingFEField using find_all_active_cells_around_point (closed)
#8625 DataPostprocessor fails with std::complex Vector (closed)
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