Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #90.
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:
#8551: Update some documentation pieces. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8550: Add mailmap entry (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8549: Add more citations to step-51. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8547: Fix bug in MatrixFree ghost exchange with faces and FE_Q (proposed by kronbichler)
#8546: Remove diff from testsuite (proposed by drwells)
#8545: Fix several typos in CMake documentation (proposed by brownraming; merged)
#8543: Fixed documentation for Triangulation<...>::set_manifold(...) (proposed by alexrobomind; merged)
#8542: Added the function GridGenerator::subdivided_hyper_L(). (proposed by maemar)
#8541: FEFacet [WIP] (proposed by tjhei)
#8540: Add to LinearAlgebra::distributed::Vector documentation (proposed by tcclevenger; merged)
#8539: Improve resolution in step 8. (proposed by chronictectonic)
#8538: improved documentation for grid generator (proposed by mjayadharan; merged)
#8537: Initialize particle locations with invalid numbers. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8536: Make particle iterators const references in range-based for loops. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8534: Add a mailmap entry (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8533: Variable size transfer of quadrature point data implemented (proposed by rezarastak)
#8532: step-12: increase depth_console (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8531: Avoid CUDA warnings related to DEAL_II_ALWAYS_INLINE (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8530: Mutable bind implementation. (proposed by luca-heltai)
#8529: Remove match_dimension (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8528: Implement the PolynomialsBase classes (proposed by GrahamBenHarper)
#8527: fix a typo (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8526: Eccentric hyper shell (proposed by melaniegerault)
#8524: Add a gitignore entry (proposed by tamiko; merged)
#8523: Step-3 possible extensions to label boundaries using x, y, z coordinates (proposed by maemar; merged)
#8522: Implement pack_particles functions (proposed by gassmoeller)
#8521: Matrix free atomic (proposed by Rombur; merged)
#8519: Grid tools debug (proposed by mjayadharan)
#8515: add entry to doc/news/changes/minor (proposed by rfildes; merged)
#8514: Add extension to step2 (proposed by User-zwj)
#8513: Add compression options to pack and use default parameters (proposed by gassmoeller)
#8512: Added std_cxx17::apply() method. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#8511: indent: check for bad usernames and emails (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8510: Add a changelog file. (proposed by brownraming; merged)
#8509: hyper_L documentation fix (proposed by LiMaIG)
#8508: Expanding the intro to step 51 (proposed by aberleider)
#8507: Add an entry to doc/news/changes/minor to summarize change for step-51 (proposed by jiuhuahu; merged)
#8505: step-51: fix cite command (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8504: add comment for interpolate_boundary_values (proposed by Irabiel)
#8503: ignore .DS_Store files (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8502: Clarified instructions for install directory (proposed by genevaporter; merged)
#8501: Describing parameters (proposed by Lujkn; merged)
#8500: Fix typos (proposed by adriana6; merged)
#8499: Grammar mistake in step 2 (proposed by eanovak; merged)
#8498: Some small changes in readme. (proposed by luca-heltai)
#8497: Update step 33 (fix UpdateFlags) (proposed by mzaguilar8)
#8496: Fix BC typo in matrix_tools (proposed by saratro; merged)
#8495: expand a glossary description (proposed by rfildes; merged)
#8494: Fixed typo step3 (proposed by charu2104; merged)
#8493: step-49: do not use "untitled" as a filename (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8492: step-49: switch to vtu and add possible extensions (proposed by tjhei)
#8491: Mark-up fixes in the BR element. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8490: Changes to enclosed_hyper_cube and moebius documentation (proposed by ManaswineeB; merged)
#8489: Added entry to minor changes log. (proposed by mnkajan; merged)
#8488: improved documentation in GridGenerator (proposed by axdn)
#8487: Add L1 and LInfty norm methods to BlockMatrixBase (proposed by class4kayaker)
#8486: improved documentation for grid generator (proposed by mjayadharan)
#8485: Add a possible extension in Step-2 tutorial (proposed by User-zwj)
#8484: Cell id is the key (proposed by rezarastak; merged)
#8483: step-50: use ranged-for (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8481: Rearrange measure (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8480: Fixed typos and wording in step-20 (proposed by nghayes; merged)
#8479: step 4: minor documentation edits (proposed by aggarwal-ashna; merged)
#8478: Changed Wording in Step 3 (proposed by rebeccampereira; merged)
#8477: Fixed markdown in a step-1 tutorial comment. (proposed by mnkajan; merged)
#8476: add reference for Nguyen 2012 (proposed by jiuhuahu; merged)
#8475: Simplify SymmetricTensor constructor (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8474: Cleanup use of DEAL_II_CONSTEXPR (proposed by masterleinad)
#8473: Avoid deprecated features in step-54. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8472: Change all uses of MappingType and mapping_type (proposed by GrahamBenHarper; merged)
#8471: Null pointer check added to CellDagaStorage::get_data() (proposed by rezarastak; merged)
#8470: Fix for Saturation Equation (proposed by omosebi1)
#8469: Added an image in the documentation of the grid_generator (proposed by blaisb; merged)
#8468: Edits to step-4 commented program pertaining to right-hand-side and dim (proposed by BrandonGleeson; merged)
#8467: Clear up confusion about what kind of refinement is to be explored (proposed by katcosburn; merged)
#8466: Convert steps-1,6,18 to Bibtex style citations (proposed by adam4130; merged)
#8465: Add frobenius_norm method to BlockMatrixBase (proposed by class4kayaker; merged)
#8464: Fix one typo on step_3 documentation (proposed by brownraming; merged)
#8463: Added doc change log file for change to step 20 (proposed by kirana-bergstrom; merged)
#8462: Fix evenb typo. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8459: Avoid more boost warnings (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8458: Fix for step-20 tutorial: changed point subtraction to tensor distance (proposed by kirana-bergstrom; merged)
#8456: Further cleanups of the SVG GridOut code. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8447: Let step-1 output SVG instead of EPS. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8444: Add workload imbalance function (proposed by tcclevenger; merged)
#8384: Complex periodic constraints (proposed by dangars; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#8548 more indent improvements (opened)
#8544 Does the build system depend on python? (opened)
#8535 Rename parallel::Triangulation to parallel::TriangulationBase (opened)
#8525 Give a more meaningful alias for the indent script (opened)
#8520 Possible performance regression in Debug mode on the stable branch (opened)
#8518 Use rtree inside merge_triangulation (opened)
#8517 GridTools::Cache does not in fact cache things sometimes :-) (opened)
#8516 FEFieldFunction is not thread-safe (because GridTools is not threadsafe) (opened)
#8506 ContinuousQuadratureDataTransfer with non-fixed-size quadrature data structures (opened)
#8482 step-50 TODO list (opened)
#8461 move homepage/images/ into a public git repo (opened)
#8460 Access functionality for MatrixFree on faces (opened)
#8309 Documentation of Triangulation::set_manifold is incorrect (closed)
#7629 add dealii::BlockSparseMatrix::frobenius_norm() (closed)
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