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We consider, as a simple model problem, the application of Virtual Element Methods (VEM) to the linear Magnetostatic three-dimensional problem in the formulation of F. Kikuchi. In doing so, we also introduce new serendipity VEM spaces,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Brezzi , F. Dassi , L. D. Marini , A. Russo

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

This paper introduces an accurate edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for electromagnetic analysis for both two dimensional cylindrical and three dimensional cartesian systems, which shows much better performance in terms of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Yangfan Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Wenping Li , Shunchuan Yang

The use of orthonormal polynomial bases has been found to be efficient in preventing ill-conditioning of the system matrix in the primal formulation of Virtual Element Methods (VEM) for high values of polynomial degree and in presence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Stefano Berrone , Stefano Scialò , Gioana Teora

Polytopal Element Methods (PEM) allow to solve differential equations on general polygonal and polyhedral grids, potentially offering great flexibility to mesh generation algorithms. Differently from classical finite element methods, where…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 M. Attene , S. Biasotti , S. Bertoluzza , D. Cabiddu , M. Livesu , G. Patanè , M. Pennacchio , D. Prada , M. Spagnuolo

This paper presents a mass-lumped Virtual Element Method (VEM) with explicit Strong Stability-Preserving Runge--Kutta (SSP-RK) time integration for two-dimensional parabolic problems on general polygonal meshes. A diagonal mass matrix is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Paulo Akira F. Enabe , Rodrigo Provasi

This paper proposes a virtual element method (VEM) combined with a second-order implicit-explicit scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We employ the BDF2…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Xiaojing Dong , Yunqing Huang , Tianwen Wang

In the present paper we initiate the challenging task of building a mathematically sound theory for Adaptive Virtual Element Methods (AVEMs). Among the realm of polygonal meshes, we restrict our analysis to triangular meshes with hanging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-02 L. Beirao da Veiga , C. Canuto , R. H. Nochetto , G. Vacca , M. Verani

In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Antoine Quiriny , Václav Kučera , Jonathan Lambrechts , Nicolas Moës , Jean-François Remacle

The presented article contains a 3D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes of a prescribed volume V_0 of elements. The finite volume meshes are used with the Finite Element…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-31 Ilona D. Kosinska

Virtual element methods (VEMs) without extrinsic stabilization in arbitrary degree of polynomial are developed for second order elliptic problems, including a nonconforming VEM and a conforming VEM in arbitrary dimension. The key is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Chunyu Chen , Xuehai Huang , Huayi Wei

We present the Neural Approximated Virtual Element Method to numerically solve elasticity problems. This hybrid technique combines classical concepts from the Finite Element Method and the Virtual Element Method with recent advances in deep…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Stefano Berrone , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora

Three-dimensional concrete printing (3DCP) has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. According to many, 3DCP is set to revolutionize the construction industry: yielding unparalleled aesthetics, better quality control, lower cost, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Gieljan Vantyghem , Ticho Ooms , Wouter De Corte

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

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

We present an a posteriori error analysis for the mixed virtual element method (mixed VEM) applied to second order elliptic equations in divergence form with mixed boundary conditions. The resulting error estimator is of residual-type. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Andrea Cangiani , Mauricio Munar

When obtaining interior 3D voxel data from triangular meshes, most existing methods fail to handle low quality meshes which happens to take up a big portion on the internet. In this work we present a robust voxelization method that is based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Joseph Chen , Ko-Wei Tai , Wen-Chin Chen , Ming Ouhyoung

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the solution of Dirichlet problems for the quasilinear equation $-\text{div} (k(u)\text{grad} u)=f$ with essential boundary conditions. Within the VEM the nonlinear coefficient is evaluated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Andrea Cangiani , Panagiotis Chatzipantelidis , Ganesh Diwan , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

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 modern engineering designs, advanced materials (e.g., fiber/particle-reinforced polymers, metallic alloys, laminar composites, etc.) are widely used, where microscale heterogeneities such as grains, inclusions, voids, micro-cracks, and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Haoyan Wei , Dandan Lyu , Wei Hu , C. T. Wu