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Exploring High-order three dimensional Virtual Elements: bases and stabilizations

Numerical Analysis 2017-09-14 v1

Abstract

We present numerical tests of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) tailored for the discretization of a three dimensional Poisson problem with high-order "polynomial" degree (up to p=10p=10). Besides, we discuss possible reasons for which the method could return suboptimal-wrong error convergence curves. Among these motivations, we highlight ill-conditioning of the stiffness matrix and not particularly "clever" choices of the stabilizations. We propose variants of the definition of face/bulk degrees of freedom, as well as of stabilizations, which lead to methods that are much more robust in terms of numerical performances.

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@article{arxiv.1709.04371,
  title  = {Exploring High-order three dimensional Virtual Elements: bases and stabilizations},
  author = {Lorenzo Mascotto and Franco Dassi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.04371},
  year   = {2017}
}
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