[aspect-devel] ASPECT Newsletter #6

[rene.gassmoeller at mailbox.org]

Hello everyone!

This is the biweekly ASPECT newsletter #6.
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:

#864: Added a Bound Preserving Limiter to the DG method (proposed by egpuckett) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/864

#863: Visco-Plastic material model  (proposed by naliboff) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/863

#862: Shell script used to build ASPECT for the CIDER 2015 conference VM (proposed by tjesser-ucdavis-edu) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/862

#861: Particle injection (proposed by egpuckett) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/861

#860: add a cookbook that describes tracking finite strain (proposed by jdannberg) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/860

#859: quick typo fix (proposed and merged by jperryhouts) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/859

#858: Minor bugfixes (proposed and merged by gassmoeller) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/858

#856: Integrated strain (proposed by gassmoeller) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/856

#855: Update gplates plugin to use new interface (proposed and merged by gassmoeller) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/855

#854: New mesh refinement strategies (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/854

#853: replace $ASPECT_SOURCE_DIR in central location (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/853

#850: new visualization: "artificial viscosity composition" (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/850

#849: Cookbook fixes (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/849

#848: Update copyrights (proposed by jperryhouts) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/848

#847: adjust copyright (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/847

#846: Merge #783 Remove assembly scratch.explicit_material_model and cleanup (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/846

#845: skip face assembly loop if not needed (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/845

#844: introduce "make indent" (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/844

#843: Split the 'circle' plugin into .h and .cc files. (proposed and merged by bangerth) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/843

#842: Fix doxygen errors (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/842

#841: Add missing copyright headers. (proposed and merged by bangerth) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/841

#840: update parameters.tex for manual (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/840

#839: fix manual formatting (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/839

#838: Augment the documentation of the particle integrators. (proposed and merged by bangerth) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/838

#837: Assorted fixes for the generation of the manual. (proposed and merged by bangerth) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/837

#836: Properly escape hash marks in the documentation. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/836

#835: [WIP] Add VoF Interface tracking (proposed by class4kayaker) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/835

#830: Output precision to statistics file for time and Time Step Size is now 12 (merged by egpuckett) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/830

#827: Include particle timing information in usual timing information (merged by gassmoeller) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/827

#775: Restructure advection face assembly (merged by gassmoeller) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/775


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

#857: AsciiDataBoundary can not be used as member variable (opened) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/857

#852: make include inside .prm's work correctly (opened) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/852

#851: Artificial viscosity for composition if u=0 (opened) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/851

#834: Initialization and computation on additional variables (closed) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/834

#777: [Meta] Initialize reaction terms to zero in material models that don't explicitly set them. (closed) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/777

#760: S40RTS and SAVANI initial temperature models use "vs to density scaling" as parameter names (closed) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/760

#743: Move temperature/composition assemblers to the new scheme (closed) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/743

#82: Make Aspect virtual machine compatible to VMWare (closed) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/82


A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://aspect.dealii.org/doc/doxygen/changes_current.html.


Thanks for being part of the community!


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