Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #77. 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: #7987: Fix a couple of typos. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7987 #7986: Align a set of equations. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7986 #7985: Update module on user interfaces to AD libraries (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7985 #7984: Enable doxygen to build SD documentation (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7984 #7983: newline bug in grid_in_abaqus fixed (proposed by rezarastak; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7983 #7982: Arpack Solver documentation fix (proposed by rezarastak; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7982 #7981: Restrict SymEngine test (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7981 #7979: Misc. typos (proposed by luzpaz; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7979 #7978: Refactor configuration option into DEAL_II_MPI_WITH_CUDA_SUPPORT (proposed by tamiko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7978 #7977: Improve doxygen documentation for ReadWriteVector (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7977 #7976: Export DEAL_II_PETSC_WITH_COMPLEX variable (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7976 #7975: Improve the documentation of parallel builds. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7975 #7974: SD scalar operations: Creation of substitution maps (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7974 #7973: SD tensor operations: Creation of, and addition to, substitution maps (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7973 #7972: Use the function n_locally_owned_active_cells() in step-18 (proposed by dangars; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7972 #7971: Updating Ginkgo wrapper after Ginkgo's release 1.0.0 (proposed by pratikvn) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7971 #7969: Use integers in cudaMemset (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7969 #7968: Deal with empty ranges in CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree::internal_reinit (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7968 #7967: Deal with empty empty sizes in CUDA kernels (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7967 #7966: Clean up CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree::reinit interface (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7966 #7965: Exchange vectors of std::vector::swap() in step-18 (proposed by dangars; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7965 #7964: Remove destructor in step40 (proposed by dangars; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7964 #7962: Adding documentation for generic LA namespaces (proposed by rezarastak; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7962 #7961: SD scalar operations: Addition to substitution maps and map merging (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7961 #7960: Fix a mistaken assertion that only succeeds by accident. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7960 #7959: Documentation fix Physics::Transformations::Rotations::rotation_matrix_2d (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7959 #7958: Augment documentation in class IteratorRange. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7958 #7957: Mathematical notation of DerivativeForm (proposed by rezarastak; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7957 #7956: step-40 disable logic with complex PETSc (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7956 #7955: Reduce chunk_size used in CUDA kernels from 8 to 1 (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7955 #7954: Edit the results section of step-61. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7954 #7952: Remove pictures from the repository. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7952 #7944: SD tensor operations: Add functions to perform symbolic tensor differentation (proposed by jppelteret; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7944 #7943: Degree of quadrature based on degree of the fe-variable (proposed by anates; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7943 #7932: Enrich CutOffFunctionBase, and provide also CutOffFunctionC1 (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7932 #7918: FunctionFromFunctionObjects class: wraps a vector of std::function objects into a Function object (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7918 #7913: Mapping::get_center() (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7913 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #7988: Reading in a 4M cell coarse grid into parallel::distributed::Triangulation is slow (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7988 #7980: Abaqus mesh file does not work without \n in the last line (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7980 #7970: Issue with sign_change in FEPolyTensor (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7970 #7963: std::vector<Point<dim>> support in HDF5 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7963 #7903: Use fe.degree explicitly in example quadrature rules. (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7903 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
