ASPECT Newsletter #150

Hello everyone!

This is ASPECT newsletter #150.
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:

#4570: Moved initial condition S20RTS cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4569: Moved platelike boundary cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4568: Moved Polydiapirism cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4566: Fix deprecation warnings and incompatibility with deal.II (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4565: Fix incompatibility with deal.II master (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4564: Moved Muparser temperature/lazy syntax cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4562: Use C++11-style closing double template angle brackets. (implemented by bangerth)
#4561: Use appropriate quadrature formula. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4560: Fix a number of typos. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4558: Moved Morency Doin 2004 Cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4557: Correct the computation of e_dot_ii. (implemented by bangerth)
#4556: Moved Mid Ocean Ridge Cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4554: Moved Inner Core Convection Cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4553: Moved Global Melt cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4552: More using of centralized quadrature objects. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4551: Fix override warnings (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by bangerth)
#4550: Moved geomIO cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4549: Use centralized quadrature formulas. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#4547: Moved the convection box 3d cookbook documentation (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4546: Moved Bunge et al mantle convection cookbook (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by bangerth)
#4545: add noninitial plastic strain property (implemented by naliboff)
#4544: Provide the infrastructure for face quadratures. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4540: Moved finite strain cookbook documentation (implemented by sac-bsa; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4468: add steinberger cookbook (implemented by jdannberg; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4408: comment on the Adiabatic plugin for Initial temperature (implemented by lhy11009; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#4402: Modernize particle generation interface (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by bangerth)
#4126: Subduction cookbook case1 (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by gassmoeller)

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

#4567 tolerance for the “exact” implementation of the Peierls creep (opened)
#4563 GMG with DC Picard diverges (opened)
#4559 Confusion about deviators (opened)
#4555 Description of peierls rheology in the user manual (opened and closed)
#4548 Make normalize_pressure() more efficient (opened and closed)

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

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