Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #165. 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: #12152: Add the correct test. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12152 #12151: Switch order of parameters in GridGenerator::reference_cell() (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12151 #12150: Fix typo (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12150 #12149: Add GridGenerator::create_triangulation_with_marching_cube_algorithm() (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12149 #12148: Fix base/aligned_vector_replicate_03.mpirun=3.release (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12148 #12147: Fix for particles in empty local triangulations (proposed by gassmoeller; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12147 #12146: Fix grid/twisted_parallelepiped (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12146 #12145: Small cleanups. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12145 #12144: Add assertions and a test (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12144 #12140: Fix compilation with intel 17, part 1 (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12140 #12139: Restrict simplex/step-17 to only run with PETSc support (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12139 #12138: n_locally_owned_particle_ids() -> n_locally_owned_particles() (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12138 #12137: Fix unused variable warning in fe_interface_values.h (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12137 #12136: Give reasonable error messages when trying to use p::d::Triangulation without p4est (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12136 #12135: Simplify some code in TriangulationImplementation (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12135 #12134: MG test: Remove update_cell_dof_indices_cache for mg dof numbers (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12134 #12133: Implement cache to speed up TriaAccessor::vertex_index() (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12133 #12132: Use range-based for loops. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12132 #12131: Mark members in ParticleAccessor as 'private'. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12131 #12130: Fix markup for a formula. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12130 #12129: Fix a potential bug in step-15. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12129 #12128: Add FEEvaluation::fast_evaluation_supported() (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12128 #12127: Re-instantiate deprecated unprefixed ConstantFunction and ZeroFunction (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12127 #12126: Simplify some calls to make compiler inline function (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12126 #12125: [WIP] Add class generating high-order immersed quadrature rules (proposed by simonsticko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12125 #12124: Ignore MPI warning in linux-debug-parallel-simplex (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12124 #12123: Implement barycenter for simplices. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12123 #12122: Mixed mesh: make hp::Collection(Base) N-dimensional (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12122 #12121: Mixed mesh: hp::FEValues (proposed by peterrum) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12121 #12120: Rename CellTypeWrapper to ReferenceCellWrapper (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12120 #12119: Rename ParticleHandler::locally_relevant_ids() to locally_owned_particles() (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12119 #12118: Remove DEAL_II_WITH_SIMPLEX_SUPPORT (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12118 #12116: Minor improvements in ConsensusAlgorithms docu (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12116 #12113: DynamicSparsityPattern: Avoid bug with 64 bit integers (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12113 #12111: Provide TableBase::replicate_across_communicator(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12111 #12047: FEInterfaceValues extractors (proposed by zjiaqi2018; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12047 #12015: Add classes restricting a function to a lower dimension (proposed by simonsticko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12015 #11953: step-77 = step-15 + KINSOL (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11953 #11844: Add a change-log entry for the simplex efforts (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11844 #11795: Michelebucelli step 17 simplex cleanup (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11795 #11552: Step 40 as a simplex test (proposed by michelebucelli; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11552 #11158: Add step-76 (proposed by peterrum; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/11158 #10392: Step-71: Introduction to automatic and symbolic differentiation (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/10392 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #12143: CutOffFunctionTensorProduct::gradient is broken (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12143 #12142: Doxygen errors in tutorial.h (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12142 #12141: Rework BOOST_DEFINITIONS (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12141 #12117: deal.II Release 9.3.0 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12117 #12115: Add shortcuts for DG and MatrixFree::loop_cell_centric() (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12115 #12008: Allow sharing of data across MPI processes (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/12008 #11738: Fix barycenter() for simplices (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11738 #11691: Python wrappers of ReferenceCell (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11691 #11465: Issues with step-74 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11465 #11349: step-26 forgets to reset some variables upon restarting the time iteration (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11349 #11300: Change ReferenceCell::Type to ReferenceCell::Kind (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11300 #11211: Add some checks for silly mistakes with simplices (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/11211 #10807: Can't compile p::d::T class when p4est not detected (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10807 #10677: Re-instate ZeroFunction (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10677 #10349: Fix compilation with -std=c++20 and gcc-10 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10349 #10263: ParticleHandler documentation issue (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10263 #10255: improve docu of MatrixFree::get_cell_iterator() (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/10255 #5437: Make TriaAccessor::vertex_index faster (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5437 A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/recent_changes.html. 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