Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #12. 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: #5518: Fix sharedtria/communicate_active_fe_indices (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5518 #5517: Update doxygen options to include Adol-C (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5517 #5516: Tests: avoid using metis in tests using shared tria (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5516 #5514: Mesh partitioning with zoltan instead of metis. (proposed by niveshd) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5514 #5512: Added test for corner cases find active cell around point (proposed by GivAlz) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5512 #5511: Restrict ARPACK tests to UMFPACK support (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5511 #5509: Added random_value and random_point to tests.h (proposed by luca-heltai) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5509 #5508: Update script that runs the testsuite (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5508 #5507: Fix get_intermediate_point in spherical manifold for particular point (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5507 #5505: add wrappers for ScaLAPACK (proposed by davydden) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5505 #5504: Fix convergence rates with 64 bit integer key column (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5504 #5503: Add convert_generalized_support_point_values_to_dof_values in FE_FaceQ and FE_TraceQ (proposed by cpraveen; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5503 #5502: New some_to_some and all_gather functions. (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5502 #5501: Bump required Trilinos version to 12.4.2 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5501 #5500: Utilities::pack and unpack (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5500 #5499: Implement driver interface for internally supported AD libraries. (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5499 #5496: Test serialization of hp::DoFHandler (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5496 #5495: Remove unused typedefs (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5495 #5493: Fix ghost particle bug (proposed by gassmoeller; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5493 #5491: Change the boundary value type to match the vector type. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5491 #5490: Adding mpi_send_and_receive functions object comunication (proposed by GivAlz) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5490 #5489: Fix EXC_BAD_ACCESS occurring when marking all elements for refinement or coarsening (proposed by o-sutton; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5489 #5488: Avoid warning about unused ScopedLock for DEAL_II_WITH_THREADS=OFF (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5488 #5485: Fix warning in base/bounding_box.cc (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5485 #5484: fix missing instantiation of find_closest_vertex_of_cell() (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5484 #5482: Remove redundant specializations of scalar_product for Sacado numbers (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5482 #5481: Add changelogs related to newly implemented AD number functionality. (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5481 #5479: Introduce ArrayView::data() and use where appropriate (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5479 #5478: Remove (empty) default constructor for ArrayView (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5478 #5477: Implement a uniform interface to automatic differentiation libraries (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5477 #5476: Instantiate compute_interpolation_to/from_quadrature_points_matrix (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5476 #5475: Generalize the numbering in the Cuthill-McKee algorithm. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5475 #5474: Add support for AD calculations to FEValues functions (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5474 #5473: Add math headers for AD numbers (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5473 #5472: Fix search for the cell of a vertex (proposed by gassmoeller; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5472 #5471: Guard some calls to memcpy, memset and memmove to avoid undefined behavior (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5471 #5470: update PETSc PreconditionLU documentation, take 2 (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5470 #5468: Improving and fixing GridTools::compute_point_locations (proposed by GivAlz; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5468 #5458: Added GridTools::guess_point_owner and test (proposed by GivAlz; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5458 #5436: Change sharedtria dof distribution to match distributed tria (proposed by tcclevenger; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5436 #5410: Performance improvement for transfinite interpolation manifold. (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5410 #5392: Implement type traits and helper classes for AD numbers (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5392 #5125: Add particle handler (proposed by gassmoeller; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5125 #5117: Compute bounding boxes approximating cells with a property (adding in grid_tools) (proposed by GivAlz; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5117 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #5515: parameter_acceptor rebuilds even when not touched (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5515 #5513: Failing shared::Triangulation tests (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5513 #5510: Configuring dealii with MPI fails with CMake 3.10.0 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5510 #5506: Handling expensive manifolds (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5506 #5498: Increase minimum required version of Trilinos (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5498 #5497: sundials/harmonic_oscillator_04 test is still broken on most testers (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5497 #5494: Installation errors with Sacado (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5494 #5492: Change coefficient type in KellyErrorEstimator::estimate() (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5492 #5487: EXC_BAD_ACCESS in refine_and_coarsen_fixed_number (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5487 #5486: Fail to refine grid from UNV-file globally with distributed triangulation (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5486 #5483: Fix unused typedef warnings (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5483 #5480: Bug in ParticleHandler (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5480 #5449: VectorTools::interpolate fails for FE_FaceQ (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5449 #5039: step-10 Q3 mapping issue (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5039 #4706: FEValues for General types. (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/4706 #2473: error with mappingQ in 3d for a cylindrical manifold (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/2473 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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