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We explore the potential applications of virtual elements for solving the Sobolev equation with a convective term. A conforming virtual element method is employed for spatial discretization, while an implicit Euler scheme is used to…
Compressible Mooney-Rivlin theory has been used to model hyperelastic solids, such as rubber and porous polymers, and more recently for the modeling of soft tissues for biomedical tissues, undergoing large elastic deformations. We propose a…
We study a multi-body finite element model of a packing of hydrogel particles using the Flory-Rehner constitutive law to model the deformation of the swollen polymer network. We show that while the dependence of the pressure, $\Pi$, on the…
We initiate the design and the analysis of stabilization-free Virtual Element Methods for the laplacian problem written in mixed form. A Virtual Element version of the lowest order Raviart-Thomas Finite Element is considered. To reduce the…
We present a higher order stabilization-free virtual element method applied to plane elasticity problems. We utilize a serendipity approach to reduce the total number of degrees of freedom from the corresponding high-order approximations.…
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…
The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of small edges in the computation of the spectrum of the Steklov eigenvalue problem by a lowest order virtual element method. Under weaker assumptions on the polygonal meshes, which can…
We investigate a finite element discretization of an elastic bending-plate model with an effective prestrain. The model has been obtained via homogenization and dimension reduction by B\"onlein at al. (2023). Its energy functional is the…
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…
A nonlinear analysis of high-frequency thickness-shear vibrations of AT-cut quartz crystal plates is presented with the two-dimensional finite element method. We expanded both kinematic and constitutive nonlinear Mindlin plate equations and…
The realization of a standard Adaptive Finite Element Method (AFEM) preserves the mesh conformity by performing a completion step in the refinement loop: in addition to elements marked for refinement due to their contribution to the global…
A method to calculate the bending rigidity $\kappa$, saddle-splay modulus $\bar{\kappa}$, and spontaneous curvature $C_0$ of a fluid membrane is proposed. Virtual work for the bending deformations into cylindrical and spherical shapes is…
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…
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…
In this paper we consider the Virtual Element discretization of a minimal surface problem, a quasi-linear elliptic partial differential equation modeling the problem of minimizing the area of a surface subject to a prescribed boundary…
In this paper, we investigate a Smagorinsky model in a virtual element framework to simulate convection-dominated Navier-Stokes equations. We conduct a two-dimensional numerical investigation to assess the performance of the general order…
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…
In this paper we analyze a nonconforming virtual element method to approximate the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the two dimensional Oseen eigenvalue problem. The spaces under consideration lead to a divergence-free method which is…
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…
We present and analyze a Virtual Element Method (VEM) of arbitrary polynomial order $k\in\mathbb{N}$ for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on a surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The method combines the Surface Finite Element Method (SFEM) [Dziuk,…