deal.II Newsletter #175

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #175.
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:

#12585: Add new compute_diagonal() test (proposed by peterrum)
#12583: Mapping fe field face simplices (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12582: Make internal::MatrixFreeFunctions::ConstraintTypes enum (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12581: DoFInfo::read_dof_indices(): add additional index vector (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12579: DoFHandlerPolicy: Fix 64 bit code path (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#12578: Rename MappingQGeneric to MappingQ in python interface (proposed by agrayver)
#12577: Generalize HangingNodes (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12576: Implement DoFHandler::distribute_dofs with a single pass through entities (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#12575: Fill CUDAWrappers::internal::constraint_weights inside of ReinitHelper (proposed by peterrum)
#12574: Avoid unnecessary updates of cell dof index cache in DoFHandlerPolicy (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#12573: Implement QIteratedSimplex. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12572: Add a couple of exceptions that ensure we don't accidentally run out of indices. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12571: Rename cuda_hanging_nodes_internal.h to hanging_nodes_internal.h (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12570: Fix typos in fe_evaluation.h (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12564: Avoid suggesting using MPI compiler wrappers as CMake compilers (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#12563: Introduce ShapeInfo::subface_interpolation_matrix (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12562: Enable different VectorTypes in MGCoarseGridIterativeSolver (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12561: Move all code of MappingQGeneric to MappingQ (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#12454: Straight-forward tensor-product version of FE_RaviartThomasNodal (proposed by kronbichler; merged)

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

#12584 Trouble running example 70 (opened)
#12580 Some simplex face values are not scaled correctly (opened and closed)

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