Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #10. 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: #5425: Consistently use UNIX line endings. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5425 #5424: Fix test. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5424 #5423: Disambiguate parallel::GridTools and GridTools. (proposed by drwells) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5423 #5422: doxygen: fix deprecated function signatures (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5422 #5421: Fix expansion for Adol-C numbers (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5421 #5419: Allow outputting complex-valued data through DataOut. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5419 #5418: Minor updates to DoFRenumbering::Cuthill_McKee. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5418 #5416: lower the tolerance for full_matrix_10 test with float numbers (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5416 #5415: Replace std::fabs() by std::abs() for complex numbers. (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5415 #5414: Adding distributed_compute_point_locations (WIP) (proposed by GivAlz) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5414 #5412: Fix erroneous assert and add a test (proposed by agrayver; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5412 #5411: Make fe_field_function compute::point locations use the gridtools version (proposed by GivAlz) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5411 #5410: Performance improvement for transfinite interpolation manifold. (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5410 #5409: Make a few more tests more robust (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5409 #5408: Speed up SphericalManifold::get_new_point (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5408 #5406: Add functionality to create sparsity pattern for MG interface matrices (proposed by tcclevenger; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5406 #5405: Fix a bug in cmake when using CUDA. (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5405 #5404: Use PolarManifold in 2D SphericalManifold (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5404 #5403: Make a number of tests more robust (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5403 #5401: Fix missing norm_sqr in parallel vector. This is requied by SolverQMRS. (proposed by mwichro) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5401 #5400: Make line search for transfinite manifold more stable (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5400 #5399: Minor doc update to GridRenumbering::Cuthill_McKee. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5399 #5398: Instantiate everything also for complex-valued vectors. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5398 #5397: Fix TransfiniteInterpolationManifold on complex geometry (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5397 #5396: Make a few more things work with std::complex types. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5396 #5395: Make LapackFullMatrix also work with std::complex data types. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5395 #5394: Make a piece of code work for std::complex data types. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5394 #5393: Fix algorithm in Manifold::normal_vector (proposed by gassmoeller; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5393 #5392: Implement type traits and helper classes for AD numbers (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5392 #5391: Implement more product types for AD numbers (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5391 #5390: Document replacements for the Boundary objects (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5390 #5389: Also describe complex types to MPI. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5389 #5388: Make things work for std::complex data types. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5388 #5387: Support sundials-3.0.0 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5387 #5386: [WIP] Replace broken mesh smoothing with Laplacian (proposed by kronbichler) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5386 #5385: escape characters in LaTeX format of ParameterHandler (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5385 #5384: move CellDataTransferBuffer out of internal namespace (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5384 #5383: Avoid taking reference of non-existant static constexpr variables (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5383 #5382: Update build system template arguments for AD number types. (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5382 #5381: Update documentation of manifolds (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5381 #5380: Using Trilinos/ROL library (proposed by vishalkenchan) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5380 #5379: CMake: Fix info string about bundled libraries (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5379 #5377: Implement ChartManifold::get_intermediate_point (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5377 #5375: respect user provided Boost prefix and throw an error if something g... (proposed by davydden) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5375 #5374: Improve performance of evaluation in transfinite interpolation manifold (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5374 #5373: Add more Sacado::RFad and nested RFad-DFad examples to the testsuite (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5373 #5371: Better document GridTools::find_active_cell_around_point(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5371 #5370: Avoid warnings about no return value in non-void functions. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5370 #5369: Add a missing doc string. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5369 #5368: Improve SphericalManifold::get_new_point (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5368 #5366: Fix SphericalManifold::get_new_point at origin (proposed by gassmoeller; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5366 #5365: Avoid warning in DataOutDoFData (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5365 #5363: More small changes to prepare allowing complex-valued vectors. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5363 #5362: check number of active cells in shared::Tria (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5362 #5361: Fix warnings regarding extra';' and unused parameters (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5361 #5358: New function parallel::GridTools::exchange_local_bounding_boxes (proposed by GivAlz; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5358 #5335: Allow DataEntry functions to return either the real or imaginary part. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5335 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #5426: checking: file permissions and line endings (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5426 #5420: AD number types broke compilation (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5420 #5417: Add complex-valued tests (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5417 #5413: Fix Documentation of FEFieldFunction::compute_point_locations (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5413 #5407: Make DoFRenumbering::Cuthill_McKee work with locally *relevant* DoFs in parallel (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5407 #5402: VectorTools::interpolate does not work with MappingCartesian (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5402 #5378: ParameterHandler print_parameter latex and escaping (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5378 #5376: DoFRenumbering::subdomain_wise fails with p::s::Tria (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5376 #5372: issues with sundials 3.0.0 (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5372 #5367: VectorTools::point_value() throw exception: point not locally owned (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5367 #5364: Design flaw in vector_tools.templates.h: transform() (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5364 #5336: Failing CUDA quick_test using CUDA-9 (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5336 #5298: SphericalManifold give different results than HyperBallBoundary. Same with CylindricalManifold (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5298 #2033: Make deal.II uniformly compatible with complex-valued vectors (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/2033 A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_after_8_5_0.html. Thanks for being part of the community! Let us know about questions, problems, bugs or just share your experience by writing to dealii@googlegroups.com, or by opening issues or pull requests at https://www.github.com/dealii/dealii. Additional information can be found at https://www.dealii.org/. -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. 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