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In this paper we study newly developed methods for linear elasticity on polyhedral meshes. Our emphasis is on applications of the methods to geological models. Models of subsurface, and in particular sedimentary rocks, naturally lead to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Nilsen Halvor , Nordbotten Jan , Raynaud Xavier

We address the issue of designing robust stabilization terms for the nonconforming virtual element method. To this end, we transfer the problem of defining the stabilizing bilinear form from the elemental nonconforming virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Silvia Bertoluzza , Gianmarco Manzini , Micol Pennacchio , Daniele Prada

We introduce and analyse the first order Enlarged Enhancement Virtual Element Method (E$^2$VEM) for the Poisson problem. The method allows the definition of bilinear forms that do not require a stabilization term, thanks to the exploitation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Francesca Marcon

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

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is used to perform the discretization of the Poisson problem on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. This results in a symmetric positive definite linear system, which is solved iteratively using overlapping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser , Adam Wasiak

We construct a nonconforming virtual element method (ncVEM) based on approximation spaces that are enriched with special singular functions. This enriched ncVEM is tailored for the approximation of solutions to elliptic problems, which have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 E. Artioli , L. Mascotto

We introduce a novel residual-based a posteriori error estimator for the conforming $C^1$ Virtual Element Method (VEM) applied to the buckling eigenvalue problem, incorporating nonlinear plane stress effects in both two and three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Franco Dassi , Andres E Rubiano , Iván Velásquez

We revisit classical Virtual Element approximations on polygonal and polyhedral decompositions. We also recall the treatment proposed for dealing with decompositions into polygons with curved edges. In the second part of the paper we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Franco Brezzi , L. Donatella Marini

This work concerns adaptive refinement procedures for meshes of polygonal virtual elements. Specifically, refinement procedures previously proposed by the authors for structured meshes are generalized for the challenging case of arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Daniel van Huyssteen , Felipe Lopez Rivarola , Guillermo Etse , Paul Steinmann

Recovered finite element methods (R-FEM) have been recently introduced for meshes consisting of simplicial and/or box-type meshes. Here, utilising the flexibility of R-FEM framework, we extend their definition on polygonal and polyhedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer

This paper presents stochastic virtual element methods for propagating uncertainty in linear elastic stochastic problems. We first derive stochastic virtual element equations for 2D and 3D linear elastic problems that may involve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Zhibao Zheng , Udo Nackenhorst

This article presents a priori error estimates of the miscible displacement of one compressible fluid by another in a porous medium. The study utilizes the $H(\rm div)$ conforming virtual element method (VEM) for the approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Sarvesh Kumar , Devika Shylaja

This manuscript develops edge-averaged virtual element (EAVE) methodologies to address convection-diffusion problems effectively in the convection-dominated regime. It introduces a variant of EAVE that ensures monotonicity (producing an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Seulip Lee

The finite element method (FEM) is a well-established numerical method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, its mesh-based nature gives rise to substantial computational costs, especially for complex multiscale…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Weihang Ouyang , Yeonjong Shin , Si-Wei Liu , Lu Lu

We propose, analyze and implement a virtual element discretization for an interfacial poroelasticity-elasticity consolidation problem. The formulation of the time-dependent poroelasticity equations uses displacement, fluid pressure, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Sarvesh Kumar , David Mora , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Nitesh Verma

We consider the discretization of a boundary value problem for a general linear second-order elliptic operator with smooth coefficients using the Virtual Element approach. As in [59] the problem is supposed to have a unique solution, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-09 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Brezzi , L. D. Marini , A. Russo

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

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

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for a nonlocal reaction-diffusion system of the cardiac electric field. To this system, we analyze an $H^1(\Omega)$-conforming discretization by means of VEM which can make use of general polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Verónica Anaya , Mostafa Bendahmane , David Mora , Mauricio Sepúlveda

In the present paper we develop the Virtual Element Method for hyperbolic problems on polygonal meshes, considering the linear wave equations as our model problem. After presenting the semi-discrete scheme, we derive the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Giuseppe Vacca