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In this work we design a novel $C^1$-conforming virtual element method of arbitrary order $k \geq 2$, to solve the biharmonic problem on a domain with curved boundary and internal curved interfaces in two dimensions. By introducing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-30 L. Beirão da Veiga , D. Mora , A. Silgado

For the first time, a nonlinear interface problem on an unbounded domain with nonmonotone set-valued transmission conditions is analyzed. The investigated problem involves a nonlinear monotone partial differential equation in the interior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-19 J. Gwinner , N. Ovcharova

With the development of multi-layer elastic systems in the field of engineering mechanics, the corresponding variational inequality theory and algorithm design have received more attention and research. In this study, a class of equivalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Zhizhuo Zhang , Mikaël Barboteu , Xiaobing Nie , Serge Dumont , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty , Jinde Cao

In this paper, a direct finite element method is proposed for solving interface problems on unfitted meshes. This new method treats the two interface conditions as an $H^{\frac12}(\Gamma)\times H^{-\frac12}(\Gamma)$ pair for the mutual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jun Hu , Limin Ma

In this paper, we consider the complex flows when all three regimes pre-Darcy, Darcy and post-Darcy may be present in different portions of a same domain. We unify all three flow regimes under mathematics formulation. We describe the flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-24 John Cummings , Matthew Hamilton , Thinh Kieu

This paper focuses on the numerical simulation of geothermal systems in complex geological settings. The physical model is based on two-phase Darcy flows coupling the mass conservation of the water component with the energy conservation and…

It is well known that the solution of topology optimization problems may be affected both by the geometric properties of the computational mesh, which can steer the minimization process towards local (and non-physical) minima, and by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Paola F. Antonietti , Matteo Bruggi , Simone Scacchi , Marco Verani

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

We analyse the nonconforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximation of elliptic eigenvalue problems. The nonconforming VEM allow to treat in the same formulation the two- and three-dimensional case.We present two possible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Francesca Gardini , Gianmarco Manzini , Giuseppe Vacca

Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Vitoriano Ruas

This paper proposes a computational methodology for the integration of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and the Finite Cell Method (FCM) for models with "dirty geometries". FCM, being a fictitious domain approach based on higher order finite…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Benjamin Wassermann , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Shuohui Yin , László Kudela , Ernst Rank

This work provides an efficient virtual element scheme for the modeling of nonlinear elastodynamics undergoing large deformations. The virtual element method (VEM) has been applied to various engineering problems such as elasto-plasticity,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-10 M. Cihan , F. Aldakheel , B. Hudobivnik , P. Wriggers

In the presence of strong heterogeneities, it is well known that the use of explicit schemes for the transport of species in a porous medium suffers from severe restrictions on the time step. This has led to the development of implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Franciane F. Rocha , Fabricio S. Sousa , Roberto F. Ausas , Gustavo C. Buscaglia , Felipe Pereira

Polytopal methods provide a flexible framework for the numerical approximation of partial differential equations on general meshes. Their convergence analysis raises specific challenges due to their inherently non-conforming nature and, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Daniele Antonio Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou

Two non-overlapping domain decomposition methods are presented for the mixed finite element formulation of linear elasticity with weakly enforced stress symmetry. The methods utilize either displacement or normal stress Lagrange multiplier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Eldar Khattatov , Ivan Yotov

A virtual element discretisation for the numerical approximation of the three-field formulation of linear poroelasticity introduced in [R. Oyarz\'ua and R. Ruiz-Baier, Locking-free finite element methods for poroelasticity, SIAM J. Numer.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Raimund Bürger , Sarvesh Kumar , David Mora , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Nitesh Verma

This paper is devoted to the study of a novel mixed Finite Element Method for approximating the solutions of fourth order variational problems subjected to a constraint. The first problem we consider consists in establishing the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Paolo Piersanti , Tianyu Sun

In this paper, a multiscale flux basis algorithm is developed to efficiently solve a flow problem in fractured porous media. Here, we take into account a mixed-dimensional setting of the discrete fracture matrix model, where the fracture…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Elyes Ahmed , Alessio Fumagalli , Ana Budiša

A fundamental problem in robotic perception is matching identical objects or data, with applications such as loop closure detection, place recognition, object tracking, and map fusion. While the problem becomes considerably more challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Parker C. Lusk , Ronak Roy , Kaveh Fathian , Jonathan P. How

The virtual element method (VEM) is a family of numerical methods to discretize partial differential equations on general polygonal or polyhedral computational grids. However, the resulting linear systems are often ill-conditioned and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser