deal.II Newsletter #334

[Rene Gassmoeller]

Hello everyone!

This is deal.II newsletter #334.
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:

#18956: Add some tests for MGTwoLevelTransferCopyToHost (proposed by RyanMoulday)
#18955: Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5 (proposed by dependabot[bot])
#18954: portable MatrixFree: small cleanup (proposed by tjhei)
#18953: Provide access to the triangulation and mapping underlying ParticleHandler (proposed by YiminJin)
#18951: Better document something in SolverControl. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18950: minor typos in the documentation (proposed by iprusak; merged)
#18949: Update verbiage on simplices in documentation (proposed by wsmith-sch; merged)
#18948: Add permute method and variadic template overload for Kronecker product in FullMatrix (proposed by mwichro)
#18947: portable matrix-free: support N DoFHandler [WIP] (proposed by tjhei)
#18946: MatrixFree: extend hp adaptivity features for DG (proposed by peterrum)
#18945: Clarify the interpretation of constraints. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#18943: portable MatrixFree: simplify Assert (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#18942: add portable_matrix_free.inst (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#18941: Cleanup the `all_zero()` functions. (proposed by drwells)
#18940: Remove some unused internal functions. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#18939: Add interface for reading cell data from Table (proposed by mwichro)
#18938: Add support for PSBLAS distributed vectors (proposed by fdrmrc)
#18920: Simplify static assertions and condition checks (proposed by mwichro; merged)
#12248: Delay MPI communication in timer class to avoid deadlock during stack unwinding (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)

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

#18952 3d channel with a spherical hole inside (opened)
#18944 Interpolating/projecting a solution/function vector on a very fine distributed triangulation to a solution/function vector on a serialized coarse triangulation. (opened)
#18891 Regression tester regressed a89304 (closed)
#18800 Regression tester regressed 14f9f2 (closed)

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