[aspect-devel] ASPECT Newsletter #7

Fri May 20 01:53:54 PDT 2016

Hello everyone!

This is the biweekly ASPECT newsletter #7.
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:

#886: move traction boundary conditions to new interface (proposed by jdannberg) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/886

#885: fix the initialization of traction boundary conditions (proposed and merged by jdannberg) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/885

#883: Remove old deal.II compatibility code (proposed by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/883

#882: Avoid using the user_index when we can use active_cell_index instead. (proposed and merged by gassmoeller) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/882

#881: [WIP] Synchronize particles and compositional fields (proposed by gassmoeller) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/881

#880: Add missing folders to cookbooks/check.sh script (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/880

#879: update release-tasklist (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/879

#878: Require deal.II 8.4.1 (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/878

#877: release task: update version and changes.h (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/877

#876: doxygen fixes (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/876

#875: fix geometric averaging in 3d (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/875

#874: fix astyle formatting (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/874

#873: Add a plugin that visualizes the maximum horizontal compressive stress. (proposed by bangerth) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/873

#872: Binary solution IO (proposed by hlokavarapu) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/872

#870: fix astyle from #860 (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/870

#869: minor adiabatic boundary fixes (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/869

#868: fix missing section label in manual (proposed and merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/868

#867: typo (proposed and merged by jperryhouts) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/867

#866: Replace tabs by spaces in manual.bib. (proposed and merged by bangerth) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/866

#865: Visco-Plastic material model (proposed by naliboff) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/865

#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 (merged by jdannberg) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/860

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

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

#790: [post-1.4] Fix bugs when MPI proc has no DoFs (merged by tjhei) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/790

#786: [post-1.4] Silence warnings for other compilers (merged by gassmoeller) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/786

#720: plugin for initial temperature condition for ellipsoid chunk geometry (merged by trajaona) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/720

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

#884: Assembler rework not part of the 1.4 changelog (opened) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/884

#871: "geometric average" material averaging crashes in 3D (opened and closed) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/871

#806: 1.4 release (closed) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/806

#711: Don't use user_index. Use active_cell_index instead (closed) https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/issues/711

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!

Let us know about questions, problems, bugs or just share your experience by writing to aspect-devel at geodynamics.org, or by opening issues or pull requests at https://www.github.com/geodynamics/aspect.
Additional information can be found at https://aspect.dealii.org/, and https://geodynamics.org/cig/software/aspect/.
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