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In this work we analyze a virtual element method on polyhedral meshes for solving the sixth-order elliptic problem with simply supported boundary conditions. We apply the Ciarlet-Raviart arguments to introduce an auxiliary unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Franco Dassi , David Mora , Carlos Reales , Ivàn Velàsquez

The focus of this study is the construction and numerical validation of parallel block preconditioners for low order virtual element discretizations of the three-dimensional Maxwell equations. The virtual element method (VEM) is a recent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Nicolás A. Barnafi , Franco Dassi , Simone Scacchi

We discuss and analyze the virtual element method on general polygonal meshes for the time-dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, which are a nonlinear coupled system widely used in semiconductors and ion channels. The spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Ying Yang , Ya Liu , Shi Shu

We address the issue of designing robust stabilization terms for the nonconforming virtual element method. To this end, we transfer the problem of defining the stabilizing bilinear form from the elemental nonconforming virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Silvia Bertoluzza , Gianmarco Manzini , Micol Pennacchio , Daniele Prada

This manuscript develops edge-averaged virtual element (EAVE) methodologies to address convection-diffusion problems effectively in the convection-dominated regime. It introduces a variant of EAVE that ensures monotonicity (producing an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Seulip Lee

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

The mesh flexibility offered by the virtual element method through the permission of arbitrary element geometries, and the seamless incorporation of `hanging' nodes, has made the method increasingly attractive in the context of adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Daniel van Huyssteen , Felipe Lopez Rivarola , Guillermo Etse , Paul Steinmann

The Virtual Element Method is well suited to the formulation of arbitrarily regular Galerkin approximations of elliptic partial differential equations of order $2p_1$, for any integer $p_1\geq 1$. In fact, the virtual element paradigm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Gianmarco Manzini , Simone Scacchi , Marco Verani

In this work, we review the framework of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for a model in magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), that incorporates a coupling between electromagnetics and fluid flow, and allows us to construct novel discretizations for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Sebastian Naranjo-Alvarez , Vrushali Bokil , Vitaliy Gyrya , Gianmarco Manzini

We present two kinds of lowest-order virtual element methods for planar linear elasticity problems. For the first one we use the nonconforming virtual element method with a stabilizing term. It can be interpreted as a modification of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Do Y. Kwak , Hyeokjoo Park

A recently proposed node-based uniform strain virtual element method (NVEM) is here extended to small strain elastoplastic solids. In the proposed method, the strain is averaged at the nodes from the strain of surrounding linearly precise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Rodrigo Silva-Valenzuela , Alejandro Ortiz-Bernardin , Edoardo Artioli

This paper is dedicated to the numerical solution of a fourth-order singular perturbation problem using the interior penalty virtual element method (IPVEM) proposed in [42]. The study introduces modifications to the jumps and averages in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Fang Feng , Yue Yu

The third medium contact has been proven to be an effective approach for simulating contact problems involving large deformations. Unlike traditional contact algorithms, the third medium contact introduces a third medium between two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Bing-Bing Xu , Peter Wriggers

We propose a combined nodal integration and virtual element method for compressible and nearly incompressible elasticity, wherein the strain is averaged at the nodes from the strain of surrounding virtual elements. For the strain averaging…

In recent studies \cite{ZZ24, FY24}, the Interior Penalty Virtual Element Method (IPVEM) has been developed for solving a fourth-order singular perturbation problem, with uniform convergence established in the lowest-order case concerning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Fang Feng , Yuanyi Sun , Yue Yu

Standard Virtual Element Methods (VEM) are based on polynomial projections and require a stabilization term to evaluate the contribution of the non-polynomial component of the discrete space. However, the stabilization term is not uniquely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Paola Pia Foligno , Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Riccardo Vescovini

For the solution of 2D exterior Dirichlet Poisson problems we propose the coupling of a Curved Virtual Element Method (CVEM) with a Boundary Element Method (BEM), by using decoupled approximation orders. We provide optimal convergence error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Luca Desiderio , Silvia Falletta , Matteo Ferrari , Letizia Scuderi

This paper proposes a virtual element method (VEM) combined with a second-order implicit-explicit scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We employ the BDF2…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Xiaojing Dong , Yunqing Huang , Tianwen Wang

The Virtual Element Method for diffusion-convection-reaction problems is considered. In order to design a quasi-robust scheme also in the convection-dominated regime, a Continuous Interior Penalty approach is employed. Due to the presence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 L. Beirao da Veiga , C. Lovadina , M. Trezzi

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