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This paper focuses on the analysis of conforming virtual element methods for general second-order linear elliptic problems with rough source terms and applies it to a Poisson inverse source problem with rough measurements. For the forward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Rekha Khot , Neela Nataraj , Nitesh Verma

Due to the indefiniteness and poor spectral properties, the discretized linear algebraic system of the vector Laplacian by mixed finite element methods is hard to solve. A block diagonal preconditioner has been developed and shown to be an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Long Chen , Yongke Wu , Lin Zhong , Jie Zhou

We propose and analyze an $H^2$-conforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the simplest linear elliptic PDEs in nondivergence form with Cordes coefficients. The VEM hinges on a hierarchical construction valid for any dimension $d \ge 2$.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Guillaume Bonnet , Andrea Cangiani , Ricardo H. Nochetto

In this paper we present a unified framework for constructing spectrally equivalent low-order-refined discretizations for the high-order finite element de Rham complex. This theory covers diffusion problems in $H^1$, $H({\rm curl})$, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Will Pazner , Tzanio Kolev , Clark Dohrmann

The objective of this article is to address the discretisation of fractured/faulted poromechanical models using 3D polyhedral meshes in order to cope with the geometrical complexity of faulted geological models. A polytopal scheme is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Jérôme Droniou , Guillaume Enchéry , Isabelle Faille , Ali Haidar , Roland Masson

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

We present a two-level overlapping Schwarz preconditioner for three-dimensional problems discretized with the Virtual Element Method. Our approach handles general polyhedral meshes and irregular subdomains, extending the applicability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ana Aguilar-Pineda , Luis F. Amey , Adrian Angulo-Paniagua , Juan G. Calvo

Phase-field fracture models lead to variational problems that can be written as a coupled variational equality and inequality system. Numerically, such problems can be treated with Galerkin finite elements and primal-dual active set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Daniel Jodlbauer , Ulrich Langer , Thomas Wick

A new conservative finite element solver for the three-dimensional steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kinematics equations is presented.The solver utilizes magnetic vector potential and current density as solution variables, which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Xujing Li , Lingxiao Li

A family of Virtual Element Methods for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations is proposed and analysed. The schemes provide a discrete velocity field which is point-wise divergence-free. A rigorous error analysis is developed, showing that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 L. Beirão da Veiga , C. Lovadina , G. Vacca

This paper describes the recently developed mixed mimetic spectral element method for the Stokes problem in the vorticity-velocity-pressure formulation. This compatible discretization method relies on the construction of a conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-06-14 Jasper Kreeft , Marc Gerritsma

In this paper, we revisit an auxiliary space preconditioning method proposed by Xu [Computing 56, 1996], in which low-order finite element spaces are employed as auxiliary spaces for solving linear algebraic systems arising from high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-13 Young-Ju Lee , Wei Leng , Chen-Song Zhang

We present a hybrid mimetic finite-difference and virtual element formulation for coupled single-phase poromechanics on unstructured meshes. The key advantage of the scheme is that it is convergent on complex meshes containing highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Andrea Borio , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Joshua A. White , Randolph R. Settgast

The numerical analysis of higher-order mixed finite-element discretizations for saddle-point problems, such as the Stokes equations, has been well-studied in recent years. While the theory and practice of such discretizations is now…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Amin Rafiei , Scott MacLachlan

This work extends our previous study from S. Shrestha et al. (2024) by introducing a new abstract framework for Variational Multiscale (VMS) methods at the discrete level. We introduce the concept of what we define as the optimal projector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Suyash Shrestha , Marc Gerritsma , Gonzalo Rubio , Steven Hulshoff , Esteban Ferrer

This paper presents the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the modeling of crack propagation in 2D within the context of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). By exploiting the advantage of mesh flexibility in the VEM, we establish an…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Vien Minh Nguyen-Thanh , Xiaoying Zhuang , Hung Nguyen-Xuan , Timon Rabczuk , Peter Wriggers

A dual hybrid Virtual Element scheme for plane linear elastic problems is presented and analysed. In particular, stability and convergence results have been established. The method, which is first order convergent, has been numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Edoardo Artioli , Stefano de Miranda , Carlo Lovadina , Luca Patruno

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

In this paper, we propose and analyze a mixed virtual element method for the approximation of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the two-dimensional elasticity eigenvalue problem. Under standard assumptions on polygonal meshes, we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

The solution of matrices with $2\times 2$ block structure arises in numerous areas of computational mathematics, such as PDE discretizations based on mixed-finite element methods, constrained optimization problems, or the implicit or steady…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Ben S. Southworth , Abdullah A. Sivas , Sander Rhebergen