Merge pull request idaholab#29154 from cticenhour/nov-news-11447

Make November 2024 news public, add December template

modules/doc/content/newsletter/2024/2024_11.md

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 # MOOSE Newsletter (November 2024)
 
-!alert! construction title=In Progress
-This MOOSE Newsletter edition is in progress. Please check back in December 2024
-for a complete description of all MOOSE changes.
-!alert-end!
-
 ## MOOSE Improvements
 
-## libMesh-level Changes
+### Default support for multiple solver systems in the Steady and Transient executioners
+
+The [Steady.md] and [Transient.md] executioner, as well as any `Executioner` relying on a [FEProblemSolve.md] solve object
+can now solve multiple solver systems, e.g. nonlinear or linear systems. A variable can be placed in a solver system
+using the `solver_sys` parameter of the `Variable`.
+
+The solve of multiple systems can be iterated using the [!param](/Executioner/Transient/multi_system_fixed_point) parameter.
+A [Convergence object](syntax/Convergence/index.md) must then be specified to the `Executioner` to assess the convergence
+of the multi-system fixed point iteration.
+
+This support was also extended to the [Physics system](syntax/Physics/index.md), in which the `Physics` equations can be
+set to be solved in their own solver system
+
+### Interface for finding data files
+
+Parameters with the string-derived type `DataFileName` will now search the application's data folder, as well as the
+local simulation folder, for the files mentioned in the parameter. They will then return the absolute path to those files.
+This is intended to simplify the inclusion of data in an application, data which can be referred to in the input files.
+
+### New ChainControl system for handling complex/chained Control logic
+
+The new [ChainControl system](syntax/ChainControls/index.md) was added to MOOSE. It uses `ChainControlData` which can be of arbitrary
+types, and which can be operated on by each `ChainControl` object. This enables creating limiters, PID controllers, etc.,
+and chaining these operations to control parameters in the input file.
+This will replace the `ControlLogic` system in the thermal-hydraulics module after a transition period.
+
+## MOOSE Modules Changes
+
+### Execution of MultiApps within the SIMPLE algorithm for solving the Navier Stokes equation
+
+The [SIMPLE.md] executioner was reworked to use a `SolveObject`, `SIMPLESolve`, to perform the execution.
+This allowed nesting the solution algorithm inside the fixed-point iteration loop with [MultiApps](syntax/MultiApps/index.md).
+This enables converging multi-physics problems. The `SIMPLE` executioner is currently limited to
+steady state simulations.
+
+### Re-implementation of the finite volume face flux limiters
+
+A new implementation of the finite volume face flux limiters was performed. This new implementation presents the
+expected second order convergence across additional limiters, and adds the `Venkatakrishnan` limiter.
+It was demonstrated on the classical scalar-advection dispersion case and showed reduced numerical dispersion.
+
+### Implementation of the Navier Stokes energy conservation equation using the  linear finite volume discretization
+
+Kernels and boundary conditions were added to the Navier Stokes module to discretize the energy conservation
+equation using the linear finite volume discretization. The [SIMPLE.md] executioner, now relying on the `SIMPLESolve` class,
+can then solve the energy conservation equation after each pressure-velocity coupling iteration.
+Only steady state simulations are currently supported.
 
 ### `2024.11.20` Update
 
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 ## PETSc-level Changes
 
+PETSc has been updated to 3.22.1. Changes in this release include:
+
+- Add `MatCopyHashToXAIJ()` which allows assembling an XAIJ matrix in hash table
+  form into another XAIJ matrix. Additionally added `MatResetHash()` which
+  allows resetting an XAIJ matrix to use a hash table. Both of these
+  developments will be leveraged in libMesh and MOOSE for simulations in which
+  the sparsity pattern changes dynamically, rendering an initial preallocation
+  invalid. By using a hash table in these cases as opposed to a preallocation,
+  we can avoid new nonzero allocations which can sometimes slow simulations down by orders
+  of magnitude
+- Add `PetscCtxDestroyFn` as the prototype for all context destroy functions. It is `PetscErrorCode
+  ()(void **)`. Previously some context destructor setters took `PetscErrorCode ()(void *)`. But
+  these would not work directly with PETSc objects as contexts and having two different context
+  destructor models added unneeded complexity to the library. This change is not backward compatible
+- Deprecate `PetscContainerSetUserDestroy()` with `PetscContainerSetCtxDestroy()`, updating will
+  require a small change in calling code
+- Deprecate `PetscContainerCtxDestroyDefault` with `PetscCtxDestroyDefault()`
+- Add `PetscIntViewNumColumns()`, `PetscScalarViewNumColumns()`, and `PetscRealViewNumColumns()`
+- Update `--download-pastix` to use CMake build, with additional dependency on LAPACKE and CBLAS,
+  can use for ex. MKL with `--with-blaslapack-dir=${MKLROOT}`, or Netlib LAPACK with
+  `--download-netlib-lapack --with-netlib-lapack-c-bindings`
+- Add option `--with-library-name-suffix=<suffix>`
+- Add `PetscCIntCast()`
+- Add `PetscObjectHasFunction()` to query for the presence of a composed method
+- Add `ISGetCompressOutput()` and `ISSetCompressOutput()`
+- Deprecate `DMGetSection()` and `DMSetSection()` for existing `DMGetLocalSection()` and
+  `DMSetLocalSection()`
+- Add `DMSwarmSortRestorePointsPerCell()`
+- Change `DMSwarmVectorGetField()` and add `DMSwarmVectorDefineFields()` to handle multiple fields
+- Add `DMSwarmGetCoordinateField()` and `DMSwarmSetCoordinateField()`
+- Add `DMSwarmComputeMoments()`
+- Add `DMSwarmPushCellDM()` and `DMSwarmPopCellDM()`
+- Add `DMPlexTransformGetMatchStrata()` and `DMPlexTransformSetMatchStrata()`
+- Deprecate `DMPlexSetGlobalToNaturalSF()` and `DMPlexGetGlobalToNaturalSF()` for existing
+  `DMSetNaturalSF()` and `DMGetNaturalSF()`
+- Add `-dm_plex_box_label_bd` to setup isoperiodicity when using `-dm_plex_box_label_bd`
+
+
 ## Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements
 
-## Conda Package Changes
+- [Periodic boundary conditions](syntax/BCs/Periodic/index.md) are now more
+  verbose. They will now output intermediate setup data in their [!param](/BCs/Periodic/AddPeriodicBCAction/auto_direction)
+  mode, and will error with a helpful error message if used using conflicting parameters, or with a
+  non-existing primary or secondary boundary.
+- All `Sampler` vectorpostprocessors (VPPs) will now correctly detect and throw an error when used with
+  vector and array variables, which they currently do not support. New `Sampler` VPPs could be created
+  to support them.
+- [ProjectionAux.md] can now handle 1D elements in a multi-dimensional mesh - for example, when
+  using 1D thermal hydraulic channels in a multi-dimensional loop.
+- A [NumTimeSteps.md] postprocessor was added to count the number of time steps elapsed in a simulation.
+- Lower-D elements created using the [!param](/Mesh/FileMesh/build_all_side_lowerd_mesh) parameter are now
+  separated in multiple blocks depending on the full-dimensional block they are located next to. However,
+  block-restriction of certain kernels to only part of the lower-D blocks is not supported.
+- Several mesh diagnostics were added to detect whether a mesh is fully englobed by sidesets, by which
+  we mean that all external sides are part of a sideset, whether a mesh is fully englobed by nodesets,
+  and whether there are any overlapping element edges in a mesh.
+- The dynamic pressure can now be used in lieu of the total pressure in the nonlinear finite volume
+  discretization of the Navier Stokes equations for weakly compressible flow.

modules/doc/content/newsletter/2024/2024_12.md

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+# MOOSE Newsletter (December 2024)
+
+!alert! construction title=In Progress
+This MOOSE Newsletter edition is in progress. Please check back in January 2025
+for a complete description of all MOOSE changes.
+!alert-end!
+
+## MOOSE Improvements
+
+## libMesh-level Changes
+
+## PETSc-level Changes
+
+## Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements
+
+## Conda Package Changes

modules/doc/content/newsletter/index.md

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 ## 2024
 
+- [November, 2024](2024_11.md)
 - [October, 2024](2024_10.md)
 - [September, 2024](2024_09.md)
 - [August, 2024](2024_08.md)