mesh cell that is exact, rather than the usual polynomial approximations of
a manifold.
- Various improvements for high-order elements, including a switch of support
- points in FE\_Q and FE\_DGQ to Gauss-Lobatto support points, stable
+ points in FE_Q and FE_DGQ to Gauss-Lobatto support points, stable
evaluation of high-order Legendre polynomials, and several bugfixes for
high-order polynomial mappings defined through the MappingQ class.
- The LinearOperator class has been extended by a generic ``payload''
mechanism that allows the attachment of arbitrary additional information to
a LinearOperator.
-- A dedicated physics module has been created to provide some standard
- definitions and operations used in continuum mechanics.
+- A dedicated physics module to provide definitions and operations
+ used in continuum mechanics.
- The FE_Enriched class implements the operation of enriching the finite
element space of an underlying element.
- The FESeries namespace provides expansions of a finite element solution in
- A zoo of different finite elements
- Fast linear algebra
- Built-in support for shared memory and distributed parallel computing,
- scaling from laptops to clusters with 10,000s of processor cores
+ scaling from laptops to clusters with 100,000+ processor cores
- Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, METIS, UMFPACK and other external software
- Output for a wide variety of visualization platforms.
-Wolfgang Bangerth, Timo Heister, Guido Kanschat, Matthias Maier,
-and many other contributors.
+D. Arndt, W. Bangerth, D. Davydov, T. Heister, L. Heltai, M. Kronbichler,
+M. Maier, J.-P. Pelteret, B. Turcksin, D. Wells, and many other contributors.
user-defined data on each cell.
- The MappingManifold class provides exact mapping between the reference cell
and a mesh cell.
-- Various improvements for high-order elements, including a switch of support
- points in FE\_Q and FE\_DGQ to Gauss-Lobatto support points, stable
- evaluation of high-order Legendre polynomials, and several bugfixes for
- high-order mappings.
+- Various improvements for high-order elements.
- The LinearOperator class has been extended by a generic ``payload''
mechanism that allows the attachment of arbitrary additional information.
-- A dedicated physics module has been created to provide some standard
- definitions and operations used in continuum mechanics.
+- A dedicated physics module to provide definitions and operations
+ used in continuum mechanics.
- The FE_Enriched class implements the operation of enriching the finite
element space of an underlying element.
- The FESeries namespace provides expansions of a finite element solution in
- New tutorial programs step-55, step-56, and step-57; as well as updates to
step-27, step-37, and step-44. In addition, the separate code gallery of
deal.II has gained a number of new entries.
-- This release was tested with static code analyzers: Cppcheck, PVS-Studio,
- and Coverity-Scan.
- More than 240 other features and bugfixes, see the full list of changes at
https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_between_8_4_2_and_8_5_0.html
- Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, METIS, UMFPACK and other external software
- Output for a wide variety of visualization platforms.
-Wolfgang Bangerth, Timo Heister, Guido Kanschat, Matthias Maier,
-and many other contributors.
+D. Arndt, W. Bangerth, D. Davydov, T. Heister, L. Heltai, M. Kronbichler,
+M. Maier, J.-P. Pelteret, B. Turcksin, D. Wells, and many other contributors.