Hello everyone!
This is ASPECT newsletter #199.
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:
#5960: allow variable grain size in diffusion creep (implemented by bobmyhill)
#5959: clang CI fixes (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5958: Use 4 processes for github actions (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#5957: actually fix clang include error (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5956: Provide functions that can access the elements of the lists stored in ManagerBase. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5955: Rename plugin manager member functions. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#5954: Poison the default constructed values of MeltOutputs (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by bangerth)
#5953: Newton method for plastic dilation (implemented by YiminJin)
#5952: add missing include (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by bangerth)
#5951: Sort more parts of CMakeLists.txt into a rational order. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5950: Push the variable that stores the active plugin names down to the base class. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5949: simplify tests/world_builder_select_grains (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5948: fix particle world index in properties (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5946: Make Newton iterations in the CompositeViscoPlastic rheology more efficient (implemented by bobmyhill)
#5944: Avoid generator expression in custom target COMMENT text. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#5943: Name executables aspect-debug, aspect-release. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#5942: Rename (has|get)_matching_plugin_object to just (has|get)_matching_plugin. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5941: Update update script (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
#5940: Remove particle update ghost parameter (implemented by gassmoeller)
#5939: Enable limiter by default for bilinear least squares (implemented by gassmoeller)
#5937: make SchurComplementOperator destructor virtual (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5936: recommend ASPECT vscode extension (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by bangerth)
#5935: clang tidy rule fix and a fix (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by tjhei)
#5934: Deprecate now redundant functions in all of the Manager classes. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5933: Remove now superfluous Manager functions. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5932: Harden Plugins::ManagerBase::update() against exceptions. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5931: [WIP] Cookbook crystal preferred orientation calculation for olivine based on Fraters and Billen 2021 (implemented by magmaxt)
#5930: support different composition degrees (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5929: implement WENO limiter for DG method (implemented by YiminJin)
#5928: Fix bug in bingham_average and the cpo test (implemented by Wang-yijun; reviewed by tjhei)
#5925: Convert a number of other manager classes to the manager base class. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5924: Made FK reference temperature and pressure user inputs (implemented by Grant-Block; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5856: Add Darcy field convection timestep (implemented by danieldouglas92; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5836: Build aspect.debug and/or aspect.release, then link to it. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#5815: Add distance weighted particle interpolator (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by tjhei)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#5947 random failure in tests/world_builder_select_grains (opened and closed)
#5945 Make Peierls approximation more efficient (opened)
#5938 aspect.release vs aspect-release (opened and closed)
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