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This document contains working annotations on the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximate solution of diffusion problems with variable coefficients. To read this document you are assumed to have familiarity with concepts from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Gianmarco Manzini

In the present paper we develop the Virtual Element Method for hyperbolic problems on polygonal meshes, considering the linear wave equations as our model problem. After presenting the semi-discrete scheme, we derive the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Giuseppe Vacca

We introduce the Neural Approximated Virtual Element Method, a novel polygonal method that relies on neural networks to eliminate the need for projection and stabilization operators in the Virtual Element Method. In this paper, we discuss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Stefano Berrone , Davide Oberto , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the solution of Dirichlet problems for the quasilinear equation $-\text{div} (k(u)\text{grad} u)=f$ with essential boundary conditions. Within the VEM the nonlinear coefficient is evaluated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Andrea Cangiani , Panagiotis Chatzipantelidis , Ganesh Diwan , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

We present in a unified framework new conforming and nonconforming Virtual Element Methods (VEM) for general second order elliptic problems in two and three dimensions. The differential operator is split into its symmetric and non-symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Andrea Cangiani , Gianmarco Manzini , Oliver J. Sutton

We develop a geometrically intrinsic formulation of the arbitrary-order Virtual Element Method (VEM) on polygonal cells for the numerical solution of elliptic surface partial differential equations (PDEs). The PDE is first written in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Elena Bachini , Gianmarco Manzini , Mario Putti

We introduce and analyse the first order Enlarged Enhancement Virtual Element Method (E$^2$VEM) for the Poisson problem. The method allows the definition of bilinear forms that do not require a stabilization term, thanks to the exploitation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Francesca Marcon

In the present contribution we develop a sharper error analysis for the Virtual Element Method, applied to a model elliptic problem, that separates the element boundary and element interior contributions to the error. As a consequence we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 L. Beirao da Veiga , G. Vacca

A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) Virtual Element Method (VEM) is developed for approximating a model two dimensional Poisson problem. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape regularity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

In this paper, we employ the linear virtual element spaces to discretize the semilinear sine-Gordon equation in two dimensions. The salient features of the virtual element method (VEM) are: (a) it does not require explicit form of the shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Dibyendu Adak , Sundararajan Natarajan

The lowest-order Neural Approximated Virtual Element Method on polygonal elements is proposed here. This method employs a neural network to locally approximate the Virtual Element basis functions, thereby eliminating issues concerning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Stefano Berrone , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora

We initiate the design and the analysis of stabilization-free Virtual Element Methods for the laplacian problem written in mixed form. A Virtual Element version of the lowest order Raviart-Thomas Finite Element is considered. To reduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Andrea Borio , Carlo Lovadina , Francesca Marcon , Michele Visinoni

We analyze and validate the virtual element method combined with a boundary correction similar to the one in [1,2], to solve problems on two dimensional domains with curved boundaries approximated by polygonal domains. We focus on the case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Silvia Bertoluzza , Monica Montardini , Micol Pennacchio , Daniele Prada

A dual hybrid Virtual Element scheme for plane linear elastic problems is presented and analysed. In particular, stability and convergence results have been established. The method, which is first order convergent, has been numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Edoardo Artioli , Stefano de Miranda , Carlo Lovadina , Luca Patruno

In the present work we generalize the curvilinear Virtual Element technology, introduced for a simple linear scalar problem in a previous work, to generic 2D solid mechanic problems in small deformations. Such generalization also includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 E. Artioli , L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi

We present a velocity-based moving mesh virtual element method for the numerical solution of PDEs involving moving boundaries. The virtual element method is used for computing both the mesh velocity and a conservative Arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-19 H. Wells , M. E. Hubbard , A. Cangiani

An introductory exposition of the virtual element method (VEM) is provided. The intent is to make this method more accessible to those unfamiliar with VEM. Familiarity with the finite element method for solving 2D linear elasticity problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 L. L. Yaw

The present paper is the second part of a twofold work, whose first part is reported in [3], concerning a newly developed Virtual Element Method (VEM) for 2D continuum problems. The first part of the work proposed a study for linear elastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Edoardo Artioli , Lourenco Beirão da Veiga , Carlo Lovadina , Elio Sacco

We discuss and analyze the virtual element method on general polygonal meshes for the time-dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, which are a nonlinear coupled system widely used in semiconductors and ion channels. The spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Ying Yang , Ya Liu , Shi Shu

In this paper, we employ the techniques developed for second order operators to obtain the new estimates of Virtual Element Method for fourth order operators. The analysis is based on elements with proper shape regularity. Estimates for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Qingguang Guan