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We study a nonconforming virtual element method (VEM) for advection-diffusion-reaction problems with continuous interior penalty (CIP) stabilization. The design of the method is based on a standard variational formulation of the problem (no…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Carlo Lovadina , Ilaria Perugia , Manuel Trezzi

We design an adaptive virtual element method (AVEM) of lowest order over triangular meshes with hanging nodes in 2d, which are treated as polygons. AVEM hinges on the stabilization-free a posteriori error estimators recently derived in [8].…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 L. Beirão da Veiga , C. Canuto , R. H. Nochetto , G. Vacca , M. Verani

Finite element methods are well-known to admit robust optimal convergence on simplicial meshes satisfying the maximum angle conditions. But how to generalize this condition to polyhedra is unknown in the literature. In this work, we argue…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-15 Ruchi Guo

We propose and analyze an $H^2$-conforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the simplest linear elliptic PDEs in nondivergence form with Cordes coefficients. The VEM hinges on a hierarchical construction valid for any dimension $d \ge 2$.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Guillaume Bonnet , Andrea Cangiani , Ricardo H. Nochetto

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

We present an optimization procedure for generic polygonal or polyhedral meshes, tailored for the Virtual Element Method (VEM). Once the local quality of the mesh elements is analyzed through a quality indicator specific to the VEM, groups…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Tommaso Sorgente , Stefano Berrone , Silvia Biasotti , Gianmarco Manzini , Michela Spagnuolo , Fabio Vicini

We consider the discretization of a boundary value problem for a general linear second-order elliptic operator with smooth coefficients using the Virtual Element approach. As in [59] the problem is supposed to have a unique solution, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-09 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Brezzi , L. D. Marini , A. Russo

This paper presents a mass-lumped Virtual Element Method (VEM) with explicit Strong Stability-Preserving Runge--Kutta (SSP-RK) time integration for two-dimensional parabolic problems on general polygonal meshes. A diagonal mass matrix is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Paulo Akira F. Enabe , Rodrigo Provasi

In this thesis, we investigate a novel local projection based stabilized conforming virtual element method for the generalized Oseen problem using equal-order element pairs on general polygonal meshes. To ensure the stability, particularly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Sudheer Mishra , E Natarajan

We introduce the nonconforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximation of second order elliptic problems. We present the construction of the new element in two and three dimensions, highlighting the main differences with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-19 B. Ayuso de Dios , K. Lipnikov , G. Manzini

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 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

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a Galerkin approximation method that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to polytopal meshes. In this paper, we present a conforming formulation that generalizes the Scott-Vogelius finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Gianmarco Manzini , Annamaria Mazzia

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 propose an analysis for the stabilized finite element methods proposed in, E. Burman, Stabilized finite element methods for nonsymmetric, noncoercive, and ill-posed problems. Part I: Elliptic equations. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 35(6) 2013,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Erik Burman

It is well known that the solution of topology optimization problems may be affected both by the geometric properties of the computational mesh, which can steer the minimization process towards local (and non-physical) minima, and by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Paola F. Antonietti , Matteo Bruggi , Simone Scacchi , Marco Verani

This paper presents an initial exploration of stress-assisted diffusion problems in three dimensions within the framework of the virtual element method (VEM). Hilbert spaces enriched with parameter-weighted norms, the extended…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Andres E. Rubiano

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 this work, we present the a posteriori error analysis of Stabilization-Free Virtual Element Methods for the 2D Poisson equation. The abscence of a stabilizing bilinear form in the scheme allows to prove the equivalence between a suitably…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Davide Fassino , Francesca Marcon

We consider the Virtual Element method (VEM) introduced by Beir\~ao da Veiga, Lovadina and Vacca in 2016 for the numerical solution of the steady, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations; the method has arbitrary order $k \geq 2$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Claudio Canuto , Davide Rosso