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The work explores a specific scenario for structural computational optimization based on the following elements: (a) a relaxed optimization setting considering the ersatz (bi-material) approximation, (b) a treatment based on a nonsmoothed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-06 J. Oliver , D. Yago , J. Cante , O. Lloberas-Valls

We propose, analyze and implement a virtual element discretization for an interfacial poroelasticity-elasticity consolidation problem. The formulation of the time-dependent poroelasticity equations uses displacement, fluid pressure, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Sarvesh Kumar , David Mora , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Nitesh Verma

We present an a posteriori error analysis for the mixed virtual element method (mixed VEM) applied to second order elliptic equations in divergence form with mixed boundary conditions. The resulting error estimator is of residual-type. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Andrea Cangiani , Mauricio Munar

In this paper we consider a coupled bulk-surface PDE in two space dimensions. The model consists of a PDE in the bulk that is coupled to another PDE on the surface through general nonlinear boundary conditions. For such a system we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Massimo Frittelli , Anotida Madzvamuse , Ivonne Sgura

It has been extensively studied in the literature that solving Maxwell equations is very sensitive to the mesh structure, space conformity and solution regularity. Roughly speaking, for almost all the methods in the literature, optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Chunyu Chen , Ruchi Guo , Huayi Wei

To facilitate widespread adoption of automated engineering design techniques, existing methods must become more efficient and generalizable. In the field of topology optimization, this requires the coupling of modern optimization methods…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Connor N. Mallon , Aaron W. Thornton , Matthew R. Hill , Santiago Badia

We develop a sparse multiscale operator-adapted wavelet decomposition-based finite element method (FEM) on unstructured polygonal mesh hierarchies obtained via a coarsening procedure. Our approach decouples different resolution levels,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Furkan Şık , F. L. Teixeira , B. Shanker

In this paper, we propose and analyze a mixed virtual element method for the approximation of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the two-dimensional elasticity eigenvalue problem. Under standard assumptions on polygonal meshes, we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

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

A virtual element discretisation of an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method for two-dimensional convection-diffusion equations is proposed employing an isoparametric Virtual Element Method to achieve higher-order convergence rates on curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 H. Wells

Some methods based on simple regularizing geometric element transformations have heuristically been shown to give runtime efficient and quality effective smoothing algorithms for meshes. We describe the mathematical framework and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Dimitris Vartziotis , Benjamin Himpel

This study presents an automated topology optimization framework for designing pentamode acoustic metamaterials. It provides precise control over the material effective acoustic properties while minimizing the shear modulus to achieve…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Sebastiano Cominelli , Matteo Pozzi , Francesco Braghin

In this paper, we propose an eXtended Virtual Element Method (X-VEM) for two-dimensional linear elastic fracture. This approach, which is an extension of the standard Virtual Element Method (VEM), facilitates mesh-independent modeling of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Elena Benvenuti , Andrea Chiozzi , Gianmarco Manzini , N. Sukumar

We present a level-set based topology optimization algorithm for design optimization problems involving an arbitrary number of different materials, where the evolution of a design is solely guided by topological derivatives. Our method can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Peter Gangl

In this paper, we propose a robust low-order stabilization-free virtual element method on quadrilateral meshes for linear elasticity that is based on the stress-hybrid principle. We refer to this approach as the Stress-Hybrid Virtual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Alvin Chen , N. Sukumar

In this article, we propose and analyze a fully coupled, nonlinear, and energy-stable virtual element method (VEM) for solving the coupled Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) and Navier--Stokes (NS) equations modeling microfluidic and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Mehdi Dehghan , Zeinab Gharibi , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We analyze in this paper a virtual element approximation for the acoustic vibration problem. We consider a variational formulation relying only on the fluid displacement and propose a discretization by means of H(div) virtual elements with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Rodolfo Rodríguez

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a new family of numerical methods for the approximation of partial differential equations, where the geometry of the polytopal mesh elements can be very general. The aim of this article is to extend the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Simone Scacchi

The finite element method (FEM) is a well-established numerical method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, its mesh-based nature gives rise to substantial computational costs, especially for complex multiscale…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Weihang Ouyang , Yeonjong Shin , Si-Wei Liu , Lu Lu

The performance of distributed and data-centric applications often critically depends on the interconnecting network. Applications are hence modeled as virtual networks, also accounting for resource demands on links. At the heart of…

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