ASPECT Newsletter #181

Hello everyone!

This is ASPECT newsletter #181.
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:

#5362: Duplicate of #5260 (Add compositional dependence on viscosity in the Steinberger material model) (implemented by bobmyhill)
#5360: Entropy initial temperature lookup (WIP) (implemented by lhy11009)
#5359: make sure harmonic average particle interpolator does not average neg… (implemented by jdannberg)
#5358: Jenkins OSX: run on main branch (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5355: Fix outdated information on website (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#5354: Fix automatic docker build on release (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#5353: [www]: citing for 2.5 (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5352: fix make_cite_html.py script (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5351: Simplify test by including original prm file (implemented by gassmoeller)
#5349: update bib entries for release (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5348: fix crash in GMG mesh deformation with deal.II master (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5346: release script: update (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5345: Adding more publications for July 2023 (implemented by ljhwang; reviewed by tjhei)
#5344: website: add 2.5.0 release (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5343: udpate candi local.cfg documentation (implemented by naliboff; reviewed by tjhei)
#5341: EntropyReader Class (implemented by RanpengLi; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5340: Create additional inputs and outputs for DG faces neighbouring cells (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5339: add M1 OSX Jenkins (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5336: Modernise steinberger (implemented by bobmyhill; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5335: Optimize strain dependent rheology (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by naliboff)
#5332: Resized the rotation matrix vector in the weighted outputs for the CPO postprocessor (implemented by srivatsvyas; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5329: add test subduction initiation cookbook (implemented by cedrict; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5325: refactored Peierls to use log(stress) in the log strain rate function (implemented by bobmyhill; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5324: changed the structure of the contrib/python folder (implemented by mgouiza; reviewed by gassmoeller)

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

#5361 CPO code needs more tests (opened)
#5357 Issue with free surface, development version of ASPECT and deal.II 9.4.0/9.4.2 (opened)
#5356 Velocity oscillations near hanging nodes (opened)
#5350 Add a test for DG advection elements with additional material outputs (opened)
#5347 Failure with deal.II master (opened and closed)
#5310 Tester for Macs (closed)

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

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