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This paper presents an a priori error analysis of the hp-version of the boundary element method for the electric field integral equation on a piecewise plane (open or closed) Lipschitz surface. We use H(div)-conforming discretisations with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Alexei Bespalov , Norbert Heuer

In this paper, we revisit approximation properties of piecewise polynomial spaces, which contain more than ${\cal P}_{r-1}$ but not ${\cal P}_r$. We develop more accurate upper and lower error bounds that are sharper than those used in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Hehu Xie , Zhimin Zhang

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

In this paper we construct conforming Virtual Element approximations on domains with curved boundary and/or internal curved interfaces, both in two and three dimensions. Our approach allows to impose both Dirichlet and Neumann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Daniele Prada , Franco Brezzi , L. Donatella Marini

This paper analyses conforming and nonconforming virtual element formulations of arbitrary polynomial degrees on general polygonal meshes for the coupling of solid and fluid phases in deformable porous plates. The governing equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Rekha Khot , David Mora , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

In this paper we prove the discrete compactness property for a wide class of p-version finite element approximations of non-elliptic variational eigenvalue problems in two and three space dimensions. In a very general framework, we find…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Daniele Boffi , Martin Costabel , Monique Dauge , Leszek Demkowicz , Ralf Hiptmair

In this paper, we propose and analyse a numerical method to solve 2D Dirichlet time-harmonic elastic wave equations. The procedure is based on the decoupling of the elastic vector field into scalar Pressure ($P$-) and Shear ($S$-) waves via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Silvia Falletta , Matteo Ferrari , Letizia Scuderi

In this paper we show that we can use a modified version of the h-p spectral element method proposed in \cite{duttora1,duttom,duttora2,tomarth} to solve elliptic problems with general boundary conditions to exponential accuracy on polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-17 P K Dutt , N Kishore Kumar , C S Upadhyay

The paper deals with the a posteriori error analysis of a virtual element method for the Steklov eigenvalue problem. The virtual element method has the advantage of using general polygonal meshes, which allows implementing very efficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-26 David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Rodolfo Rodríguez

We present two approaches to constructing isoparametric Virtual Element Methods of arbitrary order for linear elliptic partial differential equations on general two-dimensional domains. The first method approximates the variational problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Andrea Cangiani , Andreas Dedner , Matthew Hubbard , Harry Wells

In this paper, we derive an asymptotic error expansion for the eigenvalue approximations by the lowest order Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element method for the general second order elliptic eigenvalue problems. Extrapolation based on such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-11 Hehu Xie

We study the fully explicit numerical approximation of a semilinear elliptic boundary value model problem, which features a monomial reaction and analytic forcing, in a bounded polygon $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ with a finite number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Yanchen He , Paul Houston , Christoph Schwab , Thomas P. Wihler

We present a space-time virtual element method for the discretization of the heat equation, which is defined on general prismatic meshes and variable degrees of accuracy. Strategies to handle efficiently the space-time mesh structure are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Sergio Gómez , Lorenzo Mascotto , Ilaria Perugia

In this paper, we discuss adaptive approximations of an elliptic eigenvalue optimization problem in a phase-field setting by a conforming finite element method. An adaptive algorithm is proposed and implemented in several two dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Jing Li , Yifeng Xu , Shengfeng Zhu

We study the approximation of the spectrum of a second-order elliptic differential operator by the Hybrid High-Order (HHO) method. The HHO method is formulated using cell and face unknowns which are polynomials of some degree $k\geq0$. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Victor Calo , Matteo Cicuttin , Quanling Deng , Alexandre Ern

We present reliable a-posteriori error estimates for $hp$-adaptive finite element approximations of eigenvalue/eigenvector problems. Starting from our earlier work on $h$ adaptive finite element approximations we show a way to obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Stefano Giani , Luka Grubišić , Jeffrey Ovall

In our previous works, we proved that the inverse of the stiffness matrix of an $h$-version finite element method (FEM) applied to scalar second order elliptic boundary value problems can be approximated at an exponential rate in the block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Niklas Angleitner , Markus Faustmann , Jens Markus Melenk

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Felipe Lepe , David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Iván Velásquez

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Ankit Kumar , Sarvesh Kumar , Sangita Yadav

We present numerical upscaling techniques for a class of linear second-order self-adjoint elliptic partial differential operators (or their high-resolution finite element discretization). As prototypes for the application of our theory we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Axel Malqvist , Daniel Peterseim