ADHelpers: Remove an unnecessary function

diff --git a/include/deal.II/differentiation/ad/ad_helpers.h b/include/deal.II/differentiation/ad/ad_helpers.h
index 61bb85daeb07aef44ce2a67000e8c3cf80e60a57..bf3ea90c62f3ec0532b0b35a797b40ff0d29146f 100644 (file)
--- a/include/deal.II/differentiation/ad/ad_helpers.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/differentiation/ad/ad_helpers.h
@@ -954,36 +954,6 @@ namespace Differentiation
 
       //@}
 
-      /**
-       * @name Post-processing
-       */
-      //@{
-
-      /*
-       * Return the complete set of degree of freedom values of
-       * auto-differentiable number type. These store the same scalar values as
-       * the independent variables $\mathbf{X}$ about which the solution is
-       * linearized.
-       *
-       * Operations performed with these numbers are not tracked by the AD,
-       * libraries so they are considered "non-sensitive" variables.
-       * The values of the components of the returned object are initialized to
-       * the values set with register_dof_values().
-       *
-       * @return An array of auto-differentiable type numbers representing the
-       * local degree of freedom values.
-       *
-       * @note This function is not typically used within the context of automatic
-       * differentation computations, but can make performing substutitions in
-       * other post-processing computations more straight forward.
-       *
-       * @note For taped AD numbers, this operation is only valid outside recording mode.
-       */
-      std::vector<ad_type>
-      get_non_sensitive_dof_values() const;
-
-      //@}
-
       /**
        * @name Operations specific to taped mode: Reusing tapes
        */

diff --git a/source/differentiation/ad/ad_helpers.cc b/source/differentiation/ad/ad_helpers.cc
index 98f90b0aedf696219cabd4df0ec585b542275764..2c3a9a5a47bd970894f0738802a48b9fbaee5285 100644 (file)
--- a/source/differentiation/ad/ad_helpers.cc
+++ b/source/differentiation/ad/ad_helpers.cc
@@ -760,30 +760,6 @@ namespace Differentiation
 
 
 
-    template <enum AD::NumberTypes ADNumberTypeCode, typename ScalarType>
-    std::vector<
-      typename ADHelperCellLevelBase<ADNumberTypeCode, ScalarType>::ad_type>
-    ADHelperCellLevelBase<ADNumberTypeCode,
-                          ScalarType>::get_non_sensitive_dof_values() const
-    {
-      if (ADNumberTraits<ad_type>::is_taped == true)
-        {
-          Assert(this->active_tape_index() !=
-                   Numbers<ad_type>::invalid_tape_index,
-                 ExcMessage("Invalid tape index"));
-        }
-
-      std::vector<ad_type> out(this->n_independent_variables(),
-                               dealii::internal::NumberType<ad_type>::value(
-                                 0.0));
-      for (unsigned int i = 0; i < this->n_independent_variables(); ++i)
-        this->initialize_non_sensitive_independent_variable(i, out[i]);
-
-      return out;
-    }
-
-
-
     template <enum AD::NumberTypes ADNumberTypeCode, typename ScalarType>
     void
     ADHelperCellLevelBase<ADNumberTypeCode, ScalarType>::set_dof_values(