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We present two a posteriori error estimators for the virtual element method (VEM) based on global and local flux reconstruction in the spirit of [5]. The proposed error estimators are reliable and efficient for the $h$-, $p$-, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 F. Dassi , J. Gedicke , L. Mascotto

We consider the approximation of the 2D frictionless contact problem in elasticity using the Virtual Element Methods (VEMs). To overcome the volumetric locking phenomenon in the nearly incompressible case, we adopt a mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-07 C. Lovadina , L. Molinari

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

This work considers the application of the virtual element method to plane hyperelasticity problems with a novel approach to the selection of stabilization parameters. The method is applied to a range of numerical examples and well known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Daniel van Huyssteen , Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy

We introduce a nonconforming virtual element method for the Poisson equation on domains with curved boundary and internal interfaces. We prove arbitrary order optimal convergence in the energy and $L^2$ norms, and validate the theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Lourenco Beirão Da Veiga , Yi Liu , Lorenzo Mascotto , Alessandro Russo

We develop and analyse residual-based a posteriori error estimates for the virtual element discretisation of a nonlinear stress-assisted diffusion problem in two and three dimensions. The model problem involves a two-way coupling between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Franco Dassi , Rekha Khot , Andres E. Rubiano , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of small edges in the computation of the spectrum of the Steklov eigenvalue problem by a lowest order virtual element method. Under weaker assumptions on the polygonal meshes, which can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Felipe Lepe , David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Iván Velásquez

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

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 higher order stabilization-free virtual element method applied to plane elasticity problems. We utilize a serendipity approach to reduce the total number of degrees of freedom from the corresponding high-order approximations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Alvin Chen , N. Sukumar

We present the novel Reduced Basis Virtual Element Method (rbVEM) for solving the Laplace eigenvalue problem. This approach is based on the virtual element method and exploits the reduced basis technique to obtain an explicit representation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Silvia Bertoluzza , Fabio Credali , Francesca Gardini

We present a low order virtual element discretization for time dependent Maxwell's equations, which allow for the use of general polyhedral meshes. Both the semi- and fully-discrete schemes are considered. We derive optimal a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , G. Manzini , L. Mascotto

This paper introduces a novel eXtended virtual element method, an extension of the conforming virtual element method. The XVEM is formulated by incorporating appropriate enrichment functions in the local spaces. The method is designed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Jerome Droniou , Gianmarco Manzini , Liam Yemm

Virtual element methods (VEMs) without extrinsic stabilization in arbitrary degree of polynomial are developed for second order elliptic problems, including a nonconforming VEM and a conforming VEM in arbitrary dimension. The key is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Chunyu Chen , Xuehai Huang , Huayi Wei

This work presents a new conforming stabilized virtual element method for the generalized Boussinesq equation with temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity. A gradient-based local projection stabilization method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Sudheer Mishra , Sundararajan Natarajan , Natarajan E

We consider, as a simple model problem, the application of Virtual Element Methods (VEM) to the linear Magnetostatic three-dimensional problem in the formulation of F. Kikuchi. In doing so, we also introduce new serendipity VEM spaces,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Brezzi , F. Dassi , L. D. Marini , A. Russo

We present the essential instruments to deal with Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the resolution of partial differential equations in mixed form. Functional spaces, degrees of freedom, projectors and differential operators are described…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Franco Dassi , Giuseppe Vacca

In this paper, we propose a novel high order unfitted finite element method on Cartesian meshes for solving the acoustic wave equation with discontinuous coefficients having complex interface geometry. The unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

The maximum norm error estimations for virtual element methods are studied. To establish the error estimations, we prove higher local regularity based on delicate analysis of Green's functions and high-order local error estimations for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Wen-Ming He , Hailong Guo

Discrete Fracture and Matrix (DFM) models describe fractured porous media as complex sets of 2D planar polygons embedded in a 3D matrix representing the surrounding porous medium. The numerical simulation of the flow in a DFM requires the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-31 M. F. Benedetto , A. Borio , F. Kyburg , J. Mollica , S. Scialo