In general we may want to enforce that a config file is explicitly loaded before any access is requested. However, there are times when this is non ideal behavior. We introduce a compile time flag (CONFIG_HARSH, and CONFIG_WARN). If config hars is defined then a runtime error will be thrown if a config value is requested before the config file has been loaded. If Config warn is defined (and config harsh is not) then a warning will be printed, otherwise nothing will happen. If either warn or nothing is defined this means that the default values defined in the get methods will be used.
Note that the meson build system has had an option added -Dconfig_error_handling=["none", "warn", "harsh"] (default="none") which can be used to manage these compile time options. In general release builds should have this disabled while debug builts should have it set to harsh.
meshIO now has a framework to set the curvature of an input mesh. This is still an early and incomplete implimentation. This has also changed the call signature a bit for GetMesh as that now returns a reference to the mesh (which is fully owned by the meshIO object)
BREAKING CHANGE: all calls to meshIO::GetMesh now must expect a mfem::Mesh&
A custom integrator is required to handle the theta^n term in the lane emden equation, that is written as NonlinearPowerIntegrator which is a mfem::NonlinearFormIntegrator and defines methods to assemble its element vector (function value) and element gradient matrix (jacobian). This is then, along with built in mfem vectors for M Q and D, incorporated into the PolytropeOperator which defines methods for Mult (calculate the residuals of the variational form) and GetGradient (find the jacobian of the system)
tboudreaux:feature/mixedPolytrope implimented a fix to bring old style opat-core calls to the more up to date style. This change has been fast forwarded into main
the preconditioner must be built once before the solver begins to iterater, by putting the logic for this in a dedicated method it becomes cleaner to call
approxJacobiInvert now only preforms a reallocation if the result buffer is non null. If it is non null it will preform validation to confirm that the result buffer is the correct size to recive the inverted matrix
