Update libMesh submodule

- Bug fix: `normals` vectors at the sides of edge elements in 3D,
  which were previously hard-coded to return `(-1,0,0)` and `(1,0,0)`
  at points 0 and 1 respectively (the correct solution only for
  x-axis-aligned edges), are now correctly calculated for all edges in
  2D/3D.  Compatibility with this fix required a corresponding fix in
  one MOOSE application; developers of any applications not in MOOSE
  CI who use non-x-axis-aligned edge elements may wish to test their
  codes for result changes with this update.
- Bug fix: H(curl) and H(div) element calculations are now correct on
  2D elements embedded in 3D space and not parallel to the xy plane.
- Bug fix: Some TIMPI communications of "packed-range" data (data with
  variable-size data types), when given enough input data (typically
  ~4MB by default) to split between multiple buffers and given an
  output iterator that requires correct incrementation, were not
  correctly preserving that iterator from one buffer to the next.
  This has been fixed.
- Fix for a multithreading error in applications where multiple
  threads are encountering elements with negative mapping Jacobians
- Preconditioning option, to scale new raw degrees of freedom, when
  importing mesh constraint rows from a sparse matrix.  This can
  greatly improve solver robustness on such constrained systems.
- Command line option `--mpi-thread-type` to manually choose between
  "single", "funneled", "serialized", and "multiple" MPI
  initialization threading options.  Initialization still defaults to
  "funneled" (for maximum compatibility with older MPI
  implementations), but users of slate/strumpack may need to specify
  "multiple" for compatibility with those packages.
- PetscMatrix support for hash-table-based matrices with newer PETSc
  versions.  This will allow MOOSE much more flexibility in problems
  (e.g. contact) where a priori determination of matrix sparsity
  patterns is difficult.
- Fixes for `HYPRE_SetMemoryLocation` in more complicated (e.g. field
  split) configurations
- Removed `contrib/boost`, which was a version incompatible with
  C++17.  libMesh codes (including MOOSE) which require boost now must
  have an external boost installation to use.
- Support for and compiler flag selection for configuring libMesh with
  newer Intel compilers
- `MeshTools::n_connected_components()` function to count the number
  of connected components in a mesh
- Added operator[] for DenseVector.  This is more consistent with
  other vector/map container types, and enables more compatibility
  with generic templated algorithms.
- `PetscMatrix::frobenius_norm()` method, and refactoring of other
  norm calculations
- New `transient_ex3` example application demonstrating a explicit
  DG/FV formulation of the 2D advection equation
- Improvements and more options in `calculator` app
- Improvements and bug fixes in reduced-basis code
- New grad(div()) problem example code with Raviart-Thomas elements
- Support for "packing" for Cap'n'Proto users
- Bug fix in FParser optimized JIT output
- Bug fix for corrupt time stamps in Exodus outputs with a single time
  step
- Bug fixes in programmatic setting of PETSc preconditioners
- Workarounds for older PETSc error-checking macros are now removed;
  raw PETSc code should use `LibmeshPetscCall` for error checking.
- General cleanup in autoconf (`./configure` source) code
- General refactoring in `FEInterface`

Refs #0

More libMesh update

Author: roystgnr

conda/libmesh/meta.yaml

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #
 # As well as any directions pertaining to modifying those files.
 # ALSO: Follow the directions in scripts/tests/versioner_hashes.yaml
-{% set build = 1 %}
-{% set version = "2024.12.02" %}
+{% set build = 0 %}
+{% set version = "2024.02.18" %}
 
 package:
   name: moose-libmesh

conda/moose-dev/conda_build_config.yaml

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ mpi:
   - openmpi
 
 moose_libmesh:
-  - moose-libmesh 2024.12.02 mpich_1
-  - moose-libmesh 2024.12.02 openmpi_1
+  - moose-libmesh 2024.02.18 mpich_0
+  - moose-libmesh 2024.02.18 openmpi_0
 
 moose_wasp:
   - moose-wasp 2024.12.23

conda/moose-dev/meta.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # REMEMBER TO UPDATE the .yaml files for the following packages:
 #   moose/conda_build_config.yaml
 # As well as any directions pertaining to modifying those files.
-{% set version = "2024.02.12" %}
+{% set version = "2024.02.18" %}
 
 package:
   name: moose-dev

conda/moose/conda_build_config.yaml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ mpi:
   - openmpi
 
 moose_dev:
-  - moose-dev 2024.02.12
+  - moose-dev 2024.02.18
 
 #### Darwin SDK SYSROOT
 CONDA_BUILD_SYSROOT:                                        # [osx]

docker_ci/Dockerfile

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ if [ ! -d $PETSC_DIR/lib/petsc ]; then exit 1; fi
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 # Install Libmesh to system path
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
-ARG LIBMESH_REV=6ef7d4395794104f48dae1fd48e64077207188e8
+ARG LIBMESH_REV=5b27fa72ab898444fd239cb345e5dfd910905108
 ARG LIBMESH_OPTIONS
 ARG LIBMESH_METHODS="opt dbg"
 ENV LIBMESH_DIR=/usr/local \