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We construct a finite element approximation of a strain-limiting elastic model on a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \{2,3\}$. The sequence of finite element approximations is shown to exhibit strong convergence to the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Endre Süli

We analyse the p- and hp-versions of the virtual element method (VEM) for the the Stokes problem on a polygonal domain. The key tool in the analysis is the existence of a bijection between Poisson-like and Stokes-like VE spaces for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Alexey Chernov , Carlo Marcati , Lorenzo Mascotto

In this paper, we propose a new formulation and a suitable finite element method for the steady coupling of viscous flow in deformable porous media using divergence-conforming filtration fluxes. The proposed method is based on the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Ruben Caraballo , Chansophea Wathanak In , Alberto F. Martín , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Claudio Canuto , Davide Fassino

The major challenge in determining a hyperelastic model for a given material is the choice of invariants and the selection how the strain energy function depends functionally on these invariants. Here we introduce a new data-driven…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-19 Denisa Martonová , Alain Goriely , Ellen Kuhl

In the present work, we analyze the $hp$ version of Virtual Element methods for the 2D Poisson problem. We prove exponential convergence of the energy error employing sequences of polygonal meshes geometrically refined, thus extending the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Lorenzo Mascotto , Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Alexey Chernov , Alessandro Russo

We propose a modification of the weak Galerkin methods and show its equivalence to a new version of virtual element methods. We also show the original weak Galerkin method is equivalent to the non-conforming virtual element method. As a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Long Chen

In this article a theoretical framework for problems involving fractional equations of hyperbolic type arising in the theory of viscoelasticity is presented. Based on the Galerkin method, a variational problem of the fractionary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Luis Fernando López Ríos , Julián Bravo-Castillero

We propose a novel variationally consistent membrane wrinkling model for analyzing the mechanical responses of wrinkled thin membranes. The elastic strain energy density is split into tensile and compressive terms via a spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Daobo Zhang , Josef Kiendl

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

An optimal and robust low-order nonconforming finite element method is developed for the strain gradient elasticity (SGE) model in arbitrary dimension. An $H^2$-nonconforming quadratic vector-valued finite element in arbitrary dimension is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jianguo Huang , Xuehai Huang , Zheqian Tang

In this paper, we propose a multiphysics finite element method for a nonlinear poroelasticity model. To better describe the processes of deformation and diffusion, we firstly reformulate the nonlinear fluid-solid coupling problem into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Zhihao Ge , Wenlong He

In the present work we propose and analyze a fully coupled virtual element method of high order for solving the two dimensional nonstationary Boussinesq system in terms of the stream-function and temperature fields. The discretization for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 L. Beirão da Veiga , D. Mora , A. Silgado

We present a new method for the approximate solution of the strongly coupled, nonlinear stress-diffusion problem that appears when modeling hydrogen transport in metals. The most salient feature of the proposed approximation is that it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-21 Eva M. Andrés , Ignacio Romero

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

Hyperelastic transformation method provides a promising approach to manipulate elastic waves by utilizing soft materials. However, no existing constitutive model can rigorously achieve the requirement of such method. In this Letter, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-28 Linli Chen , Chao Ma , Zheng Chang

We introduce models for viscoelastic materials, both solids and fluids, based on logarithmic stresses to capture the elastic contribution to the material response. The matrix logarithm allows to link the measures of strain, that naturally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Gennaro Ciampa , Giulio G. Giusteri , Alessio G. Soggiu

The objective of this contribution is to develop a convergence analysis for SUPG-stabilized Virtual Element Methods in diffusion-convection problems that is robust also in the convection dominated regime. For the original method introduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-03 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , C. Lovadina , G. Vacca

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