Hello everyone!
This is ASPECT newsletter #189.
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:
#5563: Implement a ‘surface elevation’ visualization postprocessor. (implemented by bangerth)
#5562: Use apt packaged cmake version in tester (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by bangerth)
#5561: Better document conventions around spherical coordinates. (implemented by bangerth)
#5560: Implement calling initial topography models from the spherical shell model. (implemented by bangerth)
#5559: Better document and check initial topography models. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5558: Spell ‘Cartesian’ with an upper-case C in the documentation. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5557: Update documentation of a function slightly. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5556: Fix the name of a variable. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5554: simplify ghosting of MGTransfer (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by bangerth)
#5553: introduce using for MGTransferMF (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by bangerth)
#5552: Get most of what’s needed for spherical topography in place. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5551: Clean up some places handling initial topography in geometry models. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5549: Fix a bibtex entry. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#5548: Next step towards equipping the sphere with topography. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5547: fix: create additional material model outputs for base models (implemented by jdannberg; reviewed by bangerth)
#5544: Adding remaining publications from 2023 (implemented by ljhwang; reviewed by bangerth)
#5542: Use chemical compositions in rheology models for parameter parsing (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by bobmyhill)
#5539: Replace the matrix free class with another. (implemented by alarshi; reviewed by tjhei)
#5537: Improve the error message when dlopen fails. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5506: Return user-set maximum topography when the initial topography model Function is asked for the max topography (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5498: Switch reference tester to deal.II 9.5 (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by bangerth)
#5245: Create reactive fluid transport material model (implemented by naliboff; reviewed by jdannberg)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#5555 Compute a better alpha factor in the implementation of the SPD-ness of the Newton method. (opened)
#5550 Read in functions only for fields that represent chemical compositions (opened)
#5546 Remove items from declare_parameters in diffusion_dislocation material model (opened)
#5545 ASPECT 3: Run full cookbooks for all complicated models (opened)
A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at this website.
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