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In this paper, an enhanced Virtual Element Method (VEM) formulation is proposed for plane elasticity. It is based on the improvement of the strain representation within the element, without altering the degree of the displacement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 A. M. D'Altri , S. de Miranda , L. Patruno , E. Sacco

For conforming finite element approximations of the Laplacian eigenfunctions, a fully computable guaranteed error bound in the $L^2$ norm sense is proposed. The bound is based on the a priori error estimate for the Galerkin projection of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Xuefeng Liu , Tomáš Vejchodský

In this work, we explore the application of Stabilization-Free Virtual Element Methods for Neumann boundary Optimal Control Problems in saddle point formulation. The method is proposed for arbitrary polynomial order of accuracy and general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Andrea Borio , Francesca Marcon , Maria Strazzullo

Maximal regularity is a fundamental concept in the theory of partial differential equations. In this paper, we establish a fully discrete version of maximal regularity for a parabolic equation. We derive various stability results in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Tomoya Kemmochi , Norikazu Saito

In this paper, we propose and analyze both conforming and nonconforming virtual element methods (VEMs) for the fully nonlinear second-order elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with Cordes coefficients. By incorporating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Ying Cai , Hailong Guo , Zhimin Zhang

In this article, we propose and analyze a fully coupled, nonlinear, and energy-stable virtual element method (VEM) for solving the coupled Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) and Navier--Stokes (NS) equations modeling microfluidic and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Mehdi Dehghan , Zeinab Gharibi , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

This paper is devoted to first-order algorithms for smooth convex optimization with inexact gradients. Unlike the majority of the literature on this topic, we consider the setting of relative rather than absolute inexactness. More…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Nikita Kornilov , Eduard Gorbunov , Mohammad Alkousa , Fedor Stonyakin , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

Proofs of convergence of adaptive finite element methods for the approximation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of linear elliptic problems have been given in a several recent papers. A key step in establishing such results for multiple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Andrea Bonito , Alan Demlow

We propose a new stable variational formulation for the quad-div problem in three dimensions and prove its well-posedness. Using this weak form, we develop and analyze the $\boldsymbol{H}(\operatorname{grad-div})$-conforming virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Xiaojing Dong , Yibing Han , Yunqing Huang

In this paper we develop a $C^0$-conforming virtual element method (VEM) for a class of second-order quasilinear elliptic PDEs in two dimensions. We present a posteriori error analysis for this problem and derive a residual based error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Scott Congreve , Alice Hodson

We develop the max-plus finite element method to solve finite horizon deterministic optimal control problems. This method, that we introduced in a previous work, relies on a max-plus variational formulation, and exploits the properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Asma Lakhoua

In this paper we propose and analyze a virtual element method to approximate the natural frequencies of the acoustic eigenvalue problem with polygonal meshes that allow the presence of small edges. With the aid of a suitable seminorm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Danilo Amigo , Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

The aim of this paper is to develop a virtual element method (VEM) for the vibration problem of thin plates on polygonal meshes. We consider a variational formulation relying only on the transverse displacement of the plate and propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Iván Velásquez

In this paper, we first discuss the optimal convergence of the adaptive finite element methods for non-self-adjoint eigenvalue problems. We present new theoretical error estimators and computable error estimators for multiple and clustered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Shixi Wang , Hai Bi , Yidu Yang

We consider an adaptive finite element method with arbitrary but fixed polynomial degree $p \ge 1$, where adaptivity is driven by an edge-based residual error estimator. Based on the modified maximum criterion from [Diening et al, Found.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

We study the weak finite element method solving convection-diffusion equations. A weak finite element scheme is presented based on a spacial variational form. We established a weak embedding inequality that is very useful in the weak finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Tie Zhang , Yanli Chen

In this paper, we study convergence properties of the gradient Expectation-Maximization algorithm \cite{lange1995gradient} for Gaussian Mixture Models for general number of clusters and mixing coefficients. We derive the convergence rate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Bowei Yan , Mingzhang Yin , Purnamrita Sarkar

We present a low order virtual element discretization for time dependent Maxwell's equations, which allow for the use of general polyhedral meshes. Both the semi- and fully-discrete schemes are considered. We derive optimal a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , G. Manzini , L. Mascotto

Classically, a mainstream approach for solving a convex-concave min-max problem is to instead solve the variational inequality problem arising from its first-order optimality conditions. Is it possible to solve min-max problems faster by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Henry Shugart , Jason M. Altschuler

In this paper we discuss the application of nonconforming virtual element methods(VEM) for the second order diffusion dominated convection diffusion reaction equation. Stability of the virtual element methods has been proved for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-24 Dibyendu Adak , E. Natarajan