ASPECT Newsletter #227

Hello everyone!

This is ASPECT newsletter #227.
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:

#6794: Avoid deprecated deal.II Subscriptor class (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by bangerth)
#6793: GMG: improve detail output (implemented by tjhei)
#6792: Add Myself to Author List (implemented by danieldouglas92; reviewed by bangerth)
#6791: Update author list to add myself. (implemented by alarshi; reviewed by tjhei)
#6790: Serialize the ODEStatistics postprocessor. (implemented by bangerth)
#6789: Let a function return what it computes by value, rather than through a reference argument. (implemented by bangerth)
#6788: Clean-ups. (implemented by bangerth)
#6786: Serialize the Topography postprocessor. (implemented by bangerth)
#6785: Support empty cells in particlePDF (implemented by gassmoeller)
#6784: Add a couple of new awesome papers to the citation list (implemented by ljhwang; reviewed by bangerth)
#6783: Remove an assert related to GMG global coarsening. (implemented by quangx)
#6782: Refactored repeated code into lambda functions for readability. (implemented by arnoldkk13)
#6780: Update bending beam benchmark prm to make sure it converges (implemented by anne-glerum; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#6779: add instantiation of plugin list (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by bangerth)
#6777: Talk about serializing initial conditions. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#6776: Move an assertion. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by tjhei)
#6775: Minor cleanups in the visualization postprocessors. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#6774: Serialize the visualization postprocessors. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#6773: Better document a workflow. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#6772: Refactored line search functionality for do_one_defect_correction_Stokes_step in solver_schemes.cc (implemented by arnoldkk13)
#6771: Refactor Newton Line Search for do_one_defect_correction_stokes_step (implemented by arnoldkk13)
#6770: Reword Authors.md and Contributing.md. (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by bangerth)
#6769: AsciiDataLayered: remove redundant data_dir (implemented by tjhei; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#6768: Fix compiler warnings (implemented by tiannh7; reviewed by tjhei)
#6767: Remove unused include (implemented by tiannh7; reviewed by tjhei)
#6753: Also serialize all plugin manager objects. (implemented by bangerth; reviewed by gassmoeller)
#6752: Allow tangential boundary conditions for GMG global coarsening. (implemented by quangx; reviewed by tjhei)
#6728: Unify anisotropic viscosity Stokes assemblers / Fix anisotropic viscosity cookbook (implemented by gassmoeller; reviewed by bangerth)

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

#6787 core_statistics.cc does not serialize all members of CoreData. (opened)
#6781 Particle PDF algorithm does not work when there are vacant cells (opened)
#6778 3-D global model doesn’t converge with GMG and AMG on aspect3.0 (opened)
#6748 Simplify some code that has to do with timing sections. (closed)

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

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