[aspect-devel] ASPECT 1.5.0 released

[FELIPE ORELLANA ROVIROSA]

 Hallo Rene and the Aspect team,

      Technicals:

      What versions of Deal.ii, Trillinos and p4est are recommended for
this latest Aspect release?

Felipe

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Rene Gassmoeller <
rene.gassmoeller at mailbox.org> wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the release of ASPECT 1.5.0. ASPECT is the
> Advanced
> Solver for Problems in Earth's ConvecTion. It uses modern numerical
> methods such
> as adaptive mesh refinement, multigrid, and a modular software design to
> provide a fast, flexible, and extensible mantle convection solver. ASPECT
> is
> available from
>
> https://aspect.dealii.org/
>
> and the release is available from
>
> https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/releases/tag/v1.5.0
>
> This release includes the following changes:
>
> - New: Choice between different formulations for the governing equations
>   including Boussinesq and anelastic liquid approximation.
> - New: Melt transport (two-phase flow).
> - Particles: new generators, ghost exchange, performance improvements,
>   interpolation to fields.
> - New: Nondimensional material model for incompressible (using the
> Boussinesq
>   approximation) and compressible computations (with ALA or TALA) for
>   nondimensionalized problems. This can be used for benchmark problems like
>   Blankenbach, King, etc..
> - New: Optional DG method for temperature/composition.
> - Adiabatic conditions: rework, now includes a reference density profile.
> - Free surface: overhaul.
> - New cookbooks: continental extension, finite strain, BurnMan interface,
>   active tracers.
> - New benchmarks: TanGurnis, Blankenbach, King.
> - New: viscoplastic material model.
> - Material model interface cleanup.
> - Assembly performance improvements.
> - New: memory statistics postprocessor.
> - New: initial topography plugins.
> - Many other fixes and small improvements.
>
> A complete list of changes can be found at
> https://aspect.dealii.org/doc/doxygen/changes_between_1_84_8
> 0_and_1_85_80.html
> and the release is also available from
> https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/releases/tag/v1.5.0
>
> Wolfgang Bangerth, Juliane Dannberg, Rene Gassmoeller, Timo Heister, and
> many
> other contributors.
>
> --
> Rene Gassmoeller
> http://www.math.colostate.edu/~gassmoel/
>
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