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In this paper we discuss the application of nonconforming virtual element methods(VEM) for the second order diffusion dominated convection diffusion reaction equation. Stability of the virtual element methods has been proved for the…
A virtual element discretisation for the numerical approximation of the three-field formulation of linear poroelasticity introduced in [R. Oyarz\'ua and R. Ruiz-Baier, Locking-free finite element methods for poroelasticity, SIAM J. Numer.…
We analyze the performance of a state-of-the-art domain decomposition approach, the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting Dual Primal (FETI-DP) method, for the efficient solution of very large linear systems arising from elliptic…
In this work is considered a spectral problem, involving a second order term on the domain boundary: the Laplace-Beltrami operator. A variational formulation is presented, leading to a finite element discretization. For the Laplace-Beltrami…
In this study, we propose a virtual element scheme to solve the Darcy problem in three physical dimensions. The main novelty, here proposed, is that curved elements are naturally handled without any degradation of the solution accuracy. In…
In this paper, we study applications of the virtual element method (VEM) for simulating the deformation of multiphase composites. The VEM is a Galerkin approach that is applicable to meshes that consist of arbitrarily-shaped polygonal and…
The locally modified finite element method, which is introduced in [Frei, Richter: SINUM 52(2014), p. 2315-2334], is a simple fitted finite element method that is able to resolve weak discontinuities in interface problems. The method is…
This paper analyses conforming and nonconforming virtual element formulations of arbitrary polynomial degrees on general polygonal meshes for the coupling of solid and fluid phases in deformable porous plates. The governing equations…
We design the conforming virtual element method for the numerical approximation of the two dimensional elastodynamics problem. We prove stability and convergence of the semi-discrete approximation and derive optimal error estimates under…
In this paper, we design and analyze a Virtual Element discretization for the steady motion of non-Newtonian, incompressible fluids. A specific stabilization, tailored to mimic the monotonicity and boundedness properties of the continuous…
In this paper, we propose and analyze both conforming and nonconforming virtual element methods (VEMs) for the fully nonlinear second-order elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with Cordes coefficients. By incorporating…
This work concerns the numerical analysis of the linear elasticity problem with a Robin boundary condition on a smooth domain. A finite element discretization is presented using high-order curved meshes in order to accurately discretize the…
In this paper, authors shall introduce a finite element method by using a weakly defined gradient operator over discontinuous functions with heterogeneous properties. The use of weak gradients and their approximations results in a new…
In this work, we analyse a simplified frictional contact problem and its variational formulation that has a form of the elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. For this problem, we consider a numerical approximation based on…
In this work we design a novel $C^1$-conforming virtual element method of arbitrary order $k \geq 2$, to solve the biharmonic problem on a domain with curved boundary and internal curved interfaces in two dimensions. By introducing a…
We develop a lowest-order nonconforming virtual element method for planar linear elasticity, which can be viewed as an extension of the idea in Falk (1991) to the virtual element method (VEM), with the family of polygonal meshes satisfying…
A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) nonconforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for approximating a model Poisson problem is developed in both 2D and 3D. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape…
Piecewise divergence-free nonconforming virtual elements are designed for Stokes problem in any dimensions. After introducing a local energy projector based on the Stokes problem and the stabilization, a divergence-free nonconforming…
One remarkable feature of virtual element methods (VEMs) is their great flexibility and robustness when used on almost arbitrary polytopal meshes. This very feature makes it widely used in both fitted and unfitted mesh methods. Despite…
A numerical procedure providing guaranteed two-sided bounds on the effective coefficients of elliptic partial differential operators is presented. The upper bounds are obtained in a standard manner through the variational formulation of the…