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Nonconforming Virtual Element Method for $2m$-th Order Partial Differential Equations in $\mathbb R^n$ with $m>n$

Numerical Analysis 2020-02-05 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

The HmH^m-nonconforming virtual elements of any order kk on any shape of polytope in Rn\mathbb R^n with constraints m>nm>n and kmk\geq m are constructed in a universal way. A generalized Green's identity for HmH^m inner product with m>nm>n is derived, which is essential to devise the HmH^m-nonconforming virtual elements. By means of the local HmH^m projection and a stabilization term using only the boundary degrees of freedom, the HmH^m-nonconforming virtual element methods are proposed to approximate solutions of the mm-harmonic equation. The norm equivalence of the stabilization on the kernel of the local HmH^m projection is proved by using the bubble function technique, the Poincar\'e inquality and the trace inequality, which implies the well-posedness of the virtual element methods. The optimal error estimates for the HmH^m-nonconforming virtual element methods are achieved from an estimate of the weak continuity and the error estimate of the canonical interpolation. Finally, the implementation of the nonconforming virtual element method is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1910.12485,
  title  = {Nonconforming Virtual Element Method for $2m$-th Order Partial Differential Equations in $\mathbb R^n$ with $m>n$},
  author = {Xuehai Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.12485},
  year   = {2020}
}

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32 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1811.03295

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