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We consider the $C^1$-Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the conforming numerical approximation of some variants of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on polygonal meshes. In particular, we focus on the discretization of the advective Cahn-Hilliard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Paola F. Antonietti , Simone Scacchi , Giuseppe Vacca , Marco Verani

We present the Neural Approximated Virtual Element Method to numerically solve elasticity problems. This hybrid technique combines classical concepts from the Finite Element Method and the Virtual Element Method with recent advances in deep…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Stefano Berrone , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora

An posteriori error analysis for the virtual element method (VEM) applied to general elliptic problems is presented. The resulting error estimator is of residual-type and applies on very general polygonal/polyhedral meshes. The estimator is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Andrea Cangiani , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer , Oliver J. Sutton

For the 2D and 3D Virtual Element Methods (VEM), a new approach to improve the conditioning of local and global matrices in the presence of badly-shaped polytopes is proposed. It defines the local projectors and the local degrees of freedom…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Stefano Berrone , Gioana Teora , Fabio Vicini

We present the design of a mesh quality indicator that can predict the behavior of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) on a given mesh family or finite sequence of polyhedral meshes (dataset). The mesh quality indicator is designed to measure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Tommaso Sorgente , Silvia Biasotti , Gianmarco Manzini , Michela Spagnuolo

In this paper, we use the first-order virtual element method (VEM) to investigate the effect of shape quality of polyhedra in the estimation of the critical time step for explicit three-dimensional elastodynamic finite element (FE)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 N. Sukumar , Michael R. Tupek

Within the framework of the displacement-based Virtual Element Method (VEM) for plane elasticity a significant problem is represented by an accurate evaluation of the stress field. In particular, in the classical VEM formulation, a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Edoardo Artioli , Stefano de Miranda , Carlo Lovadina , Luca Patruno

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

A robust $C^0$-continuous nonconforming virtual element method (VEM) is developed for a boundary value problem arising from strain gradient elasticity in two dimensions, with the family of polygonal meshes satisfying a very general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jianguo Huang , Yue Yu

The virtual element method (VEM) is a stabilized Galerkin method that is robust and accurate on general polygonal meshes. This feature makes it an appealing candidate for simulations involving meshes with embedded interfaces and evolving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Ramsharan Rangarajan , N. Sukumar

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 propose a quality-based optimization strategy to reduce the total number of degrees of freedom associated to a discrete problem defined over a polygonal tessellation with the Virtual Element Method. The presented Quality Agglomeration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Tommaso Sorgente , Fabio Vicini , Stefano Berrone , Silvia Biasotti , Gianmarco Manzini , Michela Spagnuolo

In this paper, an enhanced Virtual Element Method (VEM) formulation is proposed for plane elasticity. It is based on the improvement of the strain representation within the element, without altering the degree of the displacement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 A. M. D'Altri , S. de Miranda , L. Patruno , E. Sacco

This paper presents the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the modeling of crack propagation in 2D within the context of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). By exploiting the advantage of mesh flexibility in the VEM, we establish an…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Vien Minh Nguyen-Thanh , Xiaoying Zhuang , Hung Nguyen-Xuan , Timon Rabczuk , Peter Wriggers

We introduce and analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for the Helmholtz problem with approximating spaces made of products of low order VEM functions and plane waves. We restrict ourselves to the 2D Helmholtz equation with impedance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Ilaria Perugia , Paola Pietra , Alessandro Russo

We revisit the cell-based smoothed finite element method (SFEM) for quadrilateral elements and extend it to arbitrary polygons and polyhedrons in 2D and 3D, respectively. We highlight the similarity between the SFEM and the virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Sundararajan Natarajan , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Ean Tat Ooi

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a very effective framework to design numerical approximations with high global regularity to the solutions of elliptic partial differential equations. In this paper, we review the construction of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Gianmarco Manzini , Simone Scacchi , Marco Verani

In this paper, we develop a high-order adaptive virtual element method (VEM) to simulate the self-consistent field theory (SCFT) model in arbitrary domains. The VEM is very flexible in handling general polygon elements and can treat hanging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Huayi Wei , Xin Wang , Chunyu Chen , Kai Jiang

This short note reports a new derivation of the optimal order of the a priori error estimates for conforming virtual element methods (VEM) on 3D polyhedral meshes based on an error equation. The geometric assumptions, which are necessary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Frank Lin