ASPECT Newsletter #141

Hello everyone!

This is ASPECT newsletter #141.
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:

#4441: add spherical nsinker benchmark (implemented by tjhei)
#4440: add nsinker README (implemented by tjhei)
#4439: CI: dealii-dev, show details (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by MFraters)
#4438: Add an assertion about cell types. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#4437: Make code in heat_flux_map.cc more efficient. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#4436: Remove a few more occurrences of GeometryInfo. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#4435: Augment documentation. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#4434: Adjust max_visc and min_visc in the visco_plastic module to vectors of phases (implemented by lhy11009)
#4433: Initialize variables in mobility statistics postprocessor (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4432: Modernize code a bit in places. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4431: More GeometryInfo work. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by bangerth)
#4430: More GeometryInfo work, the questionable part. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by bangerth)
#4429: add citation (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by bangerth)
#4428: More GeometryInfo stuff. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4427: Replace FEValues by FEPointEvaluation where useful (implemented by gassmoeller)
#4426: Provide a ‘const’ version of NaturalCoordinate::get_coordinates(). (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4425: Remove a few more uses of GeometryInfo. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4424: Remove uses of GeometryInfo. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#4423: update parameters (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4422: fix Newton compressible terms. (implemented by MFraters)
#4421: Remove unnecessary include (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by bangerth)
#4420: Fix typos (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by bangerth)
#4389: A postprocessor that determines Mobility of the lithosphere following Lourenco et al., 2020 G3 (implemented by elodie-kendall; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4344: Fix the description of damage models in the manual. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4264: Fix RK2 particle advection across periodic boundaries in a spherical shell (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by bangerth)

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

#4419 “calculate_isostrain_viscosities” function in diffusion_dislocation.cc (opened and closed)

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