Google Summer of Code 2016

We just finished the first half of this year’s Google Summer of Code program, called mid-term. It is used to evaluate both the mentors and the student for Google. Two projects show great progress, one did not take off and we had to fail the student:

• Xinyun’s grid with spline geometries reached a milestone, the B-spline and NURBS geometry interfaces are almost done. Checkout the screenshots with according surfaces. Usually we don’t see such smooth output with our methods. Blog: http://gsoc2016xinyun.blogspot.de Code repository: https://gitlab.dune-project.org/Xinyun.Li/dune-iga
• Michael’s Python bindings for the DUNE grid interface have progressed to far that a simple numerical scheme runs. Inspired by the cell-centered finite volume method described in the DUNE grid how-to, Michael re-implemented the scheme in Python using DUNE grids via his bindings. Blog: http://misg.github.io/ Code repository: https://gitlab.dune-project.org/michael.sghaier/dune-corepy
• The third project aiming to implement dynamic load-balancing for UGGrid saw no major development and we had to fail the student.