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In the present paper we introduce a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximate solution of general linear second order elliptic problems in mixed form, allowing for variable coefficients. We derive a theoretical convergence analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-25 L. Beirao da Veiga , F. Brezzi , L. D. Marini , A. Russo

This paper serves as our first effort to develop a new triangular spectral element method (TSEM) on unstructured meshes, using the rectangle-triangle mapping proposed in the conference note [21]. Here, we provide some new insights into the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Michael Daniel Samson , Huiyuan Li , Li-Lian Wang

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been widely utilized in the field of materials science due to its significant advantages, such as large depth of field, wide field of view, and excellent stereoscopic imaging. However, at high…

The signed volume function for polyhedra can be generalized to a mean volume function for volume elements by averaging over the triangulations of the underlying polyhedron. If we consider these up to translation and scaling, the resulting…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Dimitris Vartziotis , Benjamin Himpel

A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) Virtual Element Method (VEM) is developed for approximating a model two dimensional Poisson problem. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape regularity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

We propose a reduced space mixed finite element method (MFEM) built on a Skinning Eigenmode subspace and material-aware cubature scheme. Our solver is well-suited for simulating scenes with large material and geometric heterogeneities in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ty Trusty , Otman Benchekroun , Eitan Grinspun , Danny M. Kaufman , David I. W. Levin

We propose a general algorithm for non-conforming adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of unstructured meshes in high-order finite element codes. Our focus is on h-refinement with a fixed polynomial order. The algorithm handles triangular,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jakub Červený , Veselin Dobrev , Tzanio Kolev

Low-order virtual element methods (VEM) compute a consistent finite-strain contribution through polynomial projections and rely on stabilization to control the unresolved modes in the projector kernel. In current hyperelastic VEM practice,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Paulo Akira F. Enabe , Rodrigo Provasi

This paper presents two approaches: the virtual element method (VEM) and the stabilization-free virtual element method (SFVEM) for analyzing thermomechanical behavior in electronic packaging structures with geometric multi-scale features.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Yanpeng Gong , Sishuai Li , Fei Qin , Bingbing Xu

We introduce a smoothing algorithm for triangle, quadrilateral, tetrahedral and hexahedral meshes whose centerpiece is a simple geometric triangle transformation. The first part focuses on the mathematical properties of the element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Dimitris Vartziotis , Doris Bohnet

We present an efficient hybrid Neural Network-Finite Element Method (NN-FEM) for solving the viscous-plastic (VP) sea-ice model. The VP model is widely used in climate simulations to represent large-scale sea-ice dynamics. However, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Nils Margenberg , Carolin Mehlmann

In the discretization of differential problems on complex geometrical domains, discretization methods based on polygonal and polyhedral elements are powerful tools. Adaptive mesh refinement for such kind of problems is very useful as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Alessandro D'Auria

In this paper we consider a coupled bulk-surface PDE in two space dimensions. The model consists of a PDE in the bulk that is coupled to another PDE on the surface through general nonlinear boundary conditions. For such a system we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Massimo Frittelli , Anotida Madzvamuse , Ivonne Sgura

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

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

The present work deals with the formulation of a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for two dimensional structural problems. The contribution is split in two parts: in part I, the elastic problem is discussed, while in part II [3] the method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Edoardo Artioli , Lourenco Beirao da Veiga , Carlo Lovadina , Elio Sacco

Mesh plays an indispensable role in dense real-time reconstruction essential in robotics. Efforts have been made to maintain flexible data structures for 3D data fusion, yet an efficient incremental framework specifically designed for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wei Dong , Jieqi Shi , Weijie Tang , Xin Wang , Hongbin Zha

We present a new fully automatic block-decomposition hexahedral meshing algorithm capable of producing high quality meshes that strictly preserve feature curve networks on the input surface and align with an input surface cross-field. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Marco Livesu , Nico Pietroni , Enrico Puppo , Alla Sheffer , Paolo Cignoni

The study performs large-eddy simulations of supersonic free jet flows using the Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method (DGSEM). The main objective of the present work is to assess the resolution requirements for adequate simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-22 Diego F. Abreu , João Luiz F. Azevedo , Carlos Junqueira-Junior

Meshless methods are commonly used to determine numerical solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) for problems involving free surfaces and/or complex geometries, approximating spatial derivatives at collocation points via local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 H. Broadley , J. R. C. King , S. J. Lind