deal.II Newsletter #172

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #172.
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:

#12508: Introduce RepartitioningPolicyTools::CellWeightPolicy (proposed by peterrum)
#12506: fix umfpack cmake 3.20 warning (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#12505: fix missing undefined copy_to_mg (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#12504: Move CellIDTranslator into a new file (proposed by peterrum)
#12503: Define NDEBUG in release mode? (proposed by gassmoeller)
#12502: Add Triangulation::n_global_coarse_cells() (proposed by peterrum)
#12499: Make mapping in GridTools::distributed_compute_point_locations() unique (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12498: Add a move ctor for p::d::Vector. (proposed by drwells)
#12495: Improve some checks for distributed Triangulations. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12493: [WIP] Enable MGTwoLevelTransfer also for local smoothing (proposed by peterrum)
#12492: Add CellAccessor::is_ghost_on_level() (proposed by peterrum)
#12491: Work on get_face_quadrature_collection() and get_unique_face_quadratures() (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12489: Really use n_points_1D for the simplex quadrature rules. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12488: [9.3.] fix cmake underlinkage error (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#12487: Updated references doc (proposed by dianeguignard)
#12486: Instantiate a GridTools function for dim = 1. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12485: Fix number of locally owned particles in particle handler (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#12484: Introduce MGTwoLevelTransfer::reinit() (proposed by peterrum)
#12483: Fix bug in remove particle (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#12482: Remove code for SUNDIALS versions prior to 3.0. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12481: Add a missing changelog entry. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12480: Fix MinimalGranularityPolicy (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12478: fix cmake underlinkage error (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#12469: Update/extend the script that counts lines of code. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12416: changed make_flux_sparsity_pattern to have the ability to add constraints (proposed by mathsen; merged)

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

#12507 Intel 19.1 and 19.0 constexpr error (opened)
#12501 Missing symbol in xSDK link (opened and closed)
#12500 Discussion on FEInterfaceValues for AD (opened)
#12497 Allow ParticleHandler to get cache at construction time, or to associated an already existing cache. (opened)
#12496 Problem in insert_global_particles (opened and closed)
#12494 9.3.1 cherry-picking candidates (opened)
#12490 link failure OSX gcc 9 in step-66 (opened and closed)
#605 if configured WITH_MPI=OFF: data_out.write_hdf5_parallel does not create the h5 file (closed)

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