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=== Development plans for Aspect ===

==== Mission and General Plan ====

The goal of ASPECT is to provide the geoscience community with an extensible software written in C++ to support research in simulating convection in the Earth mantle and elsewhere by providing a well-documented, tested code base.

In general we will
  - Include community developed features, code review
  - Running tutorials and hackathons
  - Bug fixing, code maintenance
  - Benchmarking and implementation of new features based on CIG and community
  - Providing regular software releases
  - Providing support via mailing list, github issues, etc.


==== Suggested current work items (2017) ====

  - interface to couple BurnMan & ASPECT
  - revision of ASPECT 2 paper
  - Work on deal.II release
  - Initial work on coupling with the mineral physics toolbox BurnMan
  - Deprecation of outdated features towards ASPECT 2.0
  - Redesign of non-linear solver infrastructure (tests/benchmarks)
  - merge Newton solver
  - Implement and test the new parameter GUI

==== Long term plan ====

  - Stokes Solver improvements (melt preconditioner, Schur complement improvements, GMG)
  - Benchmarking of different compressible formulations
  - Participate in community benchmark efforts
  - Perform parallel performance benchmarking of deal.II and ASPECT to increase efficiency
  - Develop a robust non-linear solver framework
  - Develop a robust and scalable passive and active tracer code
  - Improve interoperability with codes used in other fields of study e.g. mineral physics, seismology, or the planetary sciences
  - Provide coupling with the mineral physics toolbox BurnMan

==== Completed Items ====

Early 2017:

  - ASPECT 1.5.0 release
  - We successfully benchmarked ASPECT with Blankenbach 
  - Initial work on parameter GUI

Oct - Jan 2017:
  - Mini hackathon in December before AGU
  - ASPECT 2 paper got submitted
  - We implemented and merged a correct Boussinesq, ALA, and TALA approximation
  - We successfully benchmarked ASPECT with the TanGurnis and King2010
  - The melt paper has been published
  - The free surface paper “Stability and accuracy of free surface time integration in viscous flows” has been accepted
  - We have improved a large number of improvements to the particle code, making it vastly faster than it was before
  - A paper describing the techniques underlying the particle code has been written and submitted
  - We wrote an initial BurnMan coupling module for adiabatic conditions coming out of mineral physics data
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