deal.II Newsletter #171
Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #171.
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:
#12479: Fix SLEPc URL (proposed by joseeroman; merged)
#12478: fix cmake underlinkage error (proposed by tjhei)
#12473: Simplify an exception. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12472: Add two missing tutorial programs to the changelog. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12471: Fix an indentation problem in step-77. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12470: Leave a reference to step-78. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12469: Update/extend the script that counts lines of code. (proposed by bangerth)
#12468: Fix a segmentation fault in MappingQGeneric. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12467: Reserve step-84. (proposed by drwells)
#12465: Fix declaration of PoisseuilleFlow constructor (proposed by mschreter; merged)
#12464: Add an exception to check that an element exists. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12463: Add assert to DoFCellAccessor::set_dof_values_by_interpolation() (proposed by peterrum)
#12462: Add class generating immersed quadrature rules over a box face (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#12461: Un-hardcode a simplex quadrature rule. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12460: Fix a mistake in a formula. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12459: Add a spacedim template parameter on ImmersedSurfaceQuadrature (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#12457: Small adjustments in DataEntry (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12455: [WIP] VectorizedArray for ARM NEON intinsics (proposed by peterrum)
#12454: Straight-forward tensor-product version of FE_RaviartThomasNodal (proposed by kronbichler)
#12453: Fix DataOut for TrilinosWrappers::MPI::Vector (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12452: Define \mathbb{T} in step-3. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12451: Cleanup for particle handler documentation (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#12450: Simplify particle transfer during refinement/serialization (proposed by gassmoeller)
#12449: Clean up some SymmetricTensor utility functions. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12448: Added tutorial program step-82 (proposed by dianeguignard)
#12447: Shorten a long type in doxygen. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12446: Remove, without deprecation, the Eisenstat preconditioner. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12445: update clang-format infrastructure to version 11 (proposed by tamiko)
#12443: Fix test feinterface/stokes (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12442: Make an exception text readable. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12440: Remove useless function. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged)
#12438: Template DataEntry on value_type (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#12437: [WIP] Variable data transfer for `Utilities::MPI::NoncontiguousPartitioner`. (proposed by marcfehling)
#12436: Expand on the description of an assertion. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#12434: Ensure correct particle container size (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#12431: Iso refine cleanups 1 (proposed by drwells; merged)
#12422: Sort property pool (proposed by gassmoeller; merged)
#12370: feinterface: stokes test (proposed by zjiaqi2018; merged)
#12125: Add class generating high-order immersed quadrature rules (proposed by simonsticko; merged)
#11594: DataOut: update ghost values (proposed by peterrum; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#12477 ParameterHandler::add_parameter fails for map> with custom separators (opened)
#12476 No matching function LAPACKFullMatrix.end() (opened)
#12475 LAPACKFullMatrix instantiation (opened)
#12474 Compilatopm fails at link ld - "libpthread.so: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line" (opened)
#12466 Improve documentation of Trilinos LA support for linear operators (opened)
#12458 dealii.com certificate expired (opened and closed)
#12456 Latex representation of the enumeration of the reference cells (opened)
#12444 Investigate the Target Matrix Optimisation Paradigm for mesh improvement (opened)
#12441 Add distance_to_unit_cell to ReferenceCell (opened)
#12439 Make parallel::distributed::Triangulation work in 1d (opened)
#12336 Misleading TriaAccessor::vertex_indices() vs CellAccessor::vertex_index()? (closed)
#11769 ParameterHandler::parse_input() abort without throwing an exception on undefined entry (closed)
#11589 Use a more efficient container for p::DistributedTriangulationBase::local_cell_relations (closed)
#10882 Make DoFTools::extract_dofs() faster (closed)
#10797 simplex support comments (closed)
#10735 In all tutorial programs, consider using standard return codes upon encountering exceptions (closed)
#10400 clang-10 PETSc/Trilinos warnings (closed)
#9743 Annotating deprecated names with a version number. (closed)
#9577 constexpr vs DEAL_II_CONSTEXPR (closed)
#9153 Introduce element-centric loops (ECL) (closed)
#9123 LAPACK template wrappers should probably have an additional parameters for every char* (closed)
#8755 intel 19.0.5 tuple compile error (closed)
#8744 Adding deal.II to Compiler Explorer (closed)
#8653 [minor] Definition of K & \mathbb{T} is missing in step-3 documentation (closed)
#8003 "constexpr"ing Tensor, Point, and SymmetricTensor (closed)
#7963 std::vector> support in HDF5 (closed)
#7888 Configure error with fedora 29 (closed)
#7821 AMD GPU support (closed)
#7649 add GridGenerator::quarter_plate_with_a_hole() (closed)
#7536 Changes to GridTool Cache (closed)
#7378 why not use boost::zip_iterator for sparsity pattern and sparse matrix objects? (closed)
#7300 OpenMP as an alternative to TBB (closed)
#7093 Bug in Particle::load()? (closed)
#6890 Add optional center arguments to GridGenerator functions (closed)
#6886 tripple_contract for tensors (closed)
#6847 Add SymmetricTensorFunction (closed)
#6750 extend ScalapackWrappers to copy a serial matrix into its tile (closed)
#6724 Fix "typex const" uses in exception classes, use "const typex" instead. (closed)
#6672 Fix std::complex<> support (closed)
#6219 broaden base/polynomial_test.cc (closed)
#6085 Merge SparsityPattern and DynamicSparsityPattern (closed)
#6039 Clearly document block sizes, max FE degrees, etc. (closed)
#5986 Fix GridTools documentation (closed)
#5972 p::d::Tria in 1D (closed)
#5889 Don't use (un)signed char for integer data types (closed)
#5367 VectorTools::point_value() throw exception: point not locally owned (closed)
#5219 show how to output quadrature data in solid mechanics tutorials (closed)
#5054 doxygen: undocumented classes/members and warnings (closed)
#5045 CVODE interface. (closed)
#5042 Add more functionality to IDA. (closed)
#5027 More SUNDIALS interfaces. (closed)
#4962 mesh loop discussion (closed)
#4871 BlockVector vs MultiVector (closed)
#4537 dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime_clock_gettime (closed)
#4363 Compile deal.II with PGI (closed)
#4239 New warning from boost: non-standard suffix on floating constant [-Wpedantic] (closed)
#4211 Add support for user comments in ParameterHandler (closed)
#4169 Fix MathJax CDN links (closed)
#3972 add tests for prolongation/restriction of FE_Enriched (closed)
#3756 doxygen: tensor friend functions (closed)
#3312 Specify template arguments within .inst.in as opposed to template-arguments.in (closed)
#3072 Ideas for new tutorials (closed)
#3063 printing in matrix market format. (closed)
#2969 PETScWrappers::PreconditionEisenstat crashes (closed)
#2947 Can not build tests under Visual Studio 2013 (closed)
#2904 Write function that extracts the locally owned index set (closed)
#2555 Quadrature point data manager (extension) (closed)
#2511 Transforming between matrix types (closed)
#2510 PETSc Viewer Classes (closed)
#2334 strange error in solution_transfer (closed)
#2300 Update syntax in tutorials for C++11 in new_thread/new_task calls (closed)
#2293 Do not rely on user flags for logic (closed)
#2268 Add action to ParameterHandler::declare_parameter (closed)
#2252 invert mass matrix with complex-valued RHS (closed)
#2209 avoid duplicated data in parallel computations (closed)
#2206 MappingQEulerian produces strange results in 2-d (closed)
#1946 support user-defined partitioning for shared::Triangulation (closed)
#1894 Extend DataOut to complex-valued vectors (closed)
#1889 Incomplete link interface with -Wl,--as-needed with mpich if no symbol of deal.II is used (closed)
#1338 VtkFlags - why only time and cycle? (closed)
#1325 Make autocompletion of "cell->" work (closed)
#1156 Arpack interface broken and insufficient (closed)
#1139 Get statistics about timing sections across different processors (closed)
#984 step-33 does not wrap solver (closed)
#675 condense() after vs. inside make_sparsity_pattern (closed)
#583 Expand the kinds of information that can be passed through Triangulation::create_triangulation (closed)
#335 Precompute things in the background (closed)
#326 Poor performance for constructor of FE_Nedelec in 3D. (closed)
#323 parallel::distributed::Triangulation should be able to transfer vertex data (closed)
#322 Have member functions in DoFHandler to compute cell colorization (closed)
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