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We present a new computational method for smoothly matching general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to its force-free limit. The method is based on a flux-conservative formalism for MHD and its force-free limit, and a vector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present a reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mathematical model describing the dynamical behavior of highly conducting plasmas with frozen-in magnetic fields, constrained by the assumption that, there exists a frame of reference, where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Igor V Sokolov , Lulu Zhao , Tamas I Gombosi

In this work we present a novel bulk-surface virtual element method (BSVEM) for the numerical approximation of elliptic bulk-surface partial differential equations (BSPDEs) in three space dimensions. The BSVEM is based on the discretisation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Massimo Frittelli , Anotida Madzvamuse , Ivonne Sgura

The finite element method (FEM) is among the most commonly used numerical methods for solving engineering problems. Due to its computational cost, various ideas have been introduced to reduce computation times, such as domain decomposition,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Andrea Mendizabal , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Stéphane Cotin

We propose a lightning Virtual Element Method that eliminates the stabilisation term by actually computing the virtual component of the local VEM basis functions using a lightning approximation. In particular, the lightning VEM approximates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 M. L. Trezzi , U. Zerbinati

This paper presents transient numerical simulations of hydraulic systems in engineering applications using the spectral element method (SEM). Along with a detailed description of the underlying numerical method, it is shown that the SEM…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Jan-Frederik Mennemann , Lukas Marko , Jakob Schmidt , Wolfgang Kemmetmüller , Andreas Kugi

We consider a Johnson-N\'ed\'elec FEM-BEM coupling, which is a direct and non-symmetric coupling of finite and boundary element methods, in order to solve interface problems for the magnetostatic Maxwell's equations with the magnetic vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Mehdi Elasmi , Christoph Erath , Stefan Kurz

In this paper, we propose a robust solver for the finite element discrete problem of the stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in three dimensions. By the mixed finite element method, both the velocity and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Lingxiao Li , Weiying Zheng

The aim of this paper is to deal with multi-physics simulation of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) based on an advanced numerical methodology. MEMS are very small devices in which electric as well as mechanical and fluid phenomena…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-11-29 V. Rochus , J. -C. Golinval , C. Louis , C. Mendez , I. Klapka

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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Alvin Chen , N. Sukumar

In this paper we analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for a pseudostress formulation of the Stokes eigenvalue problem. This formulation allows to eliminate the velocity and the pressure, leading to an elliptic formulation where the only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

In this paper, we use the first-order virtual element method (VEM) to investigate the effect of shape quality of polyhedra in the estimation of the critical time step for explicit three-dimensional elastodynamic finite element (FE)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 N. Sukumar , Michael R. Tupek

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-15 Ruchi Guo

In this work, we have discretized a system of time-dependent nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction equations with the virtual element method over the spatial domain and the Euler method for the temporal interval. For the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 M. Arrutselvi , E. Natarajan

The emergence and understanding of new design paradigms that exploit flow induced mechanical instabilities for propulsion or energy harvesting demands robust and accurate flow structure interaction numerical models. In this context, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Caroline Bernier , Mattia Gazzola , Renaud Ronsse , Philippe Chatelain

A robust $C^0$-continuous nonconforming virtual element method (VEM) is developed for a boundary value problem arising from strain gradient elasticity in two dimensions, with the family of polygonal meshes satisfying a very general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jianguo Huang , Yue Yu

High-intensity laser plasma interactions create complex computational problems because they involve both fluid and kinetic regimes, which need models that maintain physical precision while keeping computational speed. The research…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

Many problems in electrical engineering or fluid mechanics can be modeled by parabolic-elliptic interface problems, where the domain for the exterior elliptic problem might be unbounded. A possibility to solve this class of problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

We develop a virtual element method to solve a convective Brinkman-Forchheimer problem coupled with a heat equation. This coupled model may allow for thermal diffusion and viscosity as a function of temperature. Under standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Danilo Amigo , Felipe Lepe , Enrique Otarola , Gonzalo Rivera

We analyse the Virtual Element Methods (VEM) on a simple elliptic model problem, allowing for more general meshes than the one typically considered in the VEM literature. For instance, meshes with arbitrarily small edges (with respect to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Lourenco Beirao da Veiga , Carlo Lovadina , Alessandro Russo