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In this paper we analyze a virtual element method for the two dimensional elasticity problem allowing small edges. With this approach, the classic assumptions on the geometrical features of the polygonal meshes can be relaxed. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Danilo Amigo , Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

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

This paper devises a novel lowest-order conforming virtual element method (VEM) for planar linear elasticity with the pure displacement/traction boundary condition. The main trick is to view a generic polygon $K$ as a new one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Jianguo Huang , Sen Lin , Yue Yu

In this paper, we analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for solving a non-selfadjoint fourth-order eigenvalue problem derived from the transmission eigenvalue problem. We write a variational formulation and propose a $C^1$-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 David Mora , Iván Velásquez

We present a priori and a posteriori error analysis of a Virtual Element Method (VEM) to approximate the vibration frequencies and modes of an elastic solid. We analyze a variational formulation relying only on the solid displacement and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera

This work studies the approximation of plane problems concerning transversely isotropic elasticity, using a low-order Virtual Element Method (VEM), with a focus on near-incompressibility and near-inextensibility. Additionally, both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 D. van Huyssteen , B. D. Reddy

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

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

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

We introduce and analyse the first order Enlarged Enhancement Virtual Element Method (E$^2$VEM) for the Poisson problem. The method allows the definition of bilinear forms that do not require a stabilization term, thanks to the exploitation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Francesca Marcon

We design a virtual element method for the numerical treatment of the two-dimensional parabolic variational inequality problem on unstructured polygonal meshes. Due to the expected low regularity of the exact solution, the virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Dibyendu Adak , Gianmarco Manzini , Sundararajan Natarajan

We introduce the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for elliptic eigenvalue problems. The main result of the paper states that VEM provides an optimal order approximation of the eigenmodes. A wide set of numerical tests confirm the theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Francesca Gardini , Giuseppe Vacca

The lowest-order Neural Approximated Virtual Element Method on polygonal elements is proposed here. This method employs a neural network to locally approximate the Virtual Element basis functions, thereby eliminating issues concerning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Stefano Berrone , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora

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

This paper presents two approaches: the virtual element method (VEM) and the stabilization-free virtual element method (SFVEM) for analyzing thermomechanical behavior in electronic packaging structures with geometric multi-scale features.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Yanpeng Gong , Sishuai Li , Fei Qin , Bingbing Xu

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

The numerical approximation of 2D elasticity problems is considered, in the framework of the small strain theory and in connection with the mixed Hellinger-Reissner variational formulation. A low-order Virtual Element Method (VEM) with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 E. Artioli , S. de Miranda , C. Lovadina , L. Patruno

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Yue Yu

Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Arun L. Gain , Glaucio H. Paulino , Leonardo Duarte , Ivan F. M. Menezes