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Make reference to SUNDIALS solvers in step-26. #13241

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I've spent the week at a workshop on time discretizations. I should live what I preach -- that one should use external libraries instead of hand-coding things -- but we did not have SUNDIALS interfaces at the time when step-26 was written. The second best thing is to at least say so.

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methods by hand as we do here. Rather, one should use one of the available
high-quality libraries for time stepping, for the same reasons as one should
not be implementing finite element methods by hand but use deal.II instead.
Indeed, deal.II has interfaces to one such library,
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I read this sentence like: Indeed, deal.II has interfaces to one such finite-element library, ...

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As a general rule, however, one should not be implementing time stepping
methods by hand as we do here. Rather, one should use one of the available
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I wouldn't write shouldn't. There are good reasons to use specialized time-stepping methods for FEM: 1) performance and 2) certain types of problems need specialized time-stepping approaches (dual splitting for incompressible NS), which are often not part of such general libraries. Indeed, for simple cases general-purpose libraries are a very good option.

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Good points, thank you!

@kronbichler kronbichler merged commit b3878b4 into dealii:master Jan 15, 2022
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