MOOSE Newsletter (May 2021)

Weighted Gap Mortar Mechanical Contact Implementation

We have implemented a variationally consistent discretization scheme for the zero-penetration mechanical contact constraints. Interested readers may refer to the associated issue and pull request.

Post-processors Usable in Initial Conditions

We added PostprocessorInterface to initial conditions. Post-processor values can now be retrieved using getPostprocessorValue() and getPostprocessorValueByName(), and these post-processors will be executed before the initial condition as long as their execute_on parameters include INITIAL.

Bug Fixes