ASPECT Newsletter #133

Hello everyone!

This is ASPECT newsletter #133.
It automatically reports recently merged features and discussions about the ASPECT mantle convection code.

Below you find a list of recently proposed or merged features:

#4314: Use BoundingBox in the generation of particles. (implemented by bangerth)
#4313: disable precompiled header for Intel compiler (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by bangerth)
#4311: Change the representative point to include initial topography in the box model geometry (implemented by Djneu)
#4310: Add missing mapping (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#4309: Remove unnecessary computation (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#4307: Remove unused MaterialModelOutputs (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by tjhei)
#4306: Add conductivity to MaterialProperties Property all_properties (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4305: Adding recent publication, Gouiza and Naliboff (implemented by ljhwang; reviewed by tjhei)
#4304: Update documenation of drucker prager parse_parameters() (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4303: Do not compare against NaN time (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4301: GMG Stokes: minor fix (implemented by zjiaqi2018; reviewed by tjhei)
#4300: Fix spherical velocity postprocessor (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#4299: GMG Newton: correct Stokes rhs (implemented by zjiaqi2018; reviewed by tjhei)
#4254: Use the reinit function for MaterialModelInputs (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by bangerth)
#4218: simple plume cookbook in 2D (implemented by cedrict; reviewed by bangerth)
#4185: thick_shell_grav_bench (implemented by cedrict; reviewed by bangerth)

And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:

#4312 Compiling issues with deal.ii-master on Frontera (opened and closed)
#4308 Convergence problems with GMG and spherical shells and large viscosity contrasts (opened)
#4302 Negative temperature in StickAir Layer. (opened)
#4273 drucker-prager documentation warning (closed)
#4253 spherical_velocity_components test fails with deal.II9.3.1 ? (closed)
#4069 release 2.3.0 (closed)

A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at this website.

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