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Deformable elastic bodies in viscous and viscoelastic media constitute a large portion of synthetic and biological complex fluids. We present a parallelized 3D-simulation methodology which fully resolves the momentum balance in the solid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Amir Saadat , Chris J. Guido , Gianluca Iaccarino , Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

This article presents an immersed virtual element method for solving a class of interface problems that combines the advantages of both body-fitted mesh methods and unfitted mesh methods. A background body-fitted mesh is generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Ruchi Guo , Frank Lin

In the present work we introduce a novel refinement algorithm for two-dimensional elliptic partial differential equations discretized with Virtual Element Method (VEM). The algorithm improves the numerical solution accuracy and the mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Stefano Berrone , Fabio Vicini

We present two kinds of lowest-order virtual element methods for planar linear elasticity problems. For the first one we use the nonconforming virtual element method with a stabilizing term. It can be interpreted as a modification of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Do Y. Kwak , Hyeokjoo Park

We present a four-field Virtual Element discretization for the time-dependent resistive Magnetohydrodynamics equations in three space dimensions, focusing on the semi-discrete formulation. The proposed method employs general polyhedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Franco Dassi , Gianmarco Manzini , Lorenzo Mascotto

Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Arun L. Gain , Glaucio H. Paulino , Leonardo Duarte , Ivan F. M. Menezes

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

A simple, yet efficient procedure to solve quasistatic problems of special linear visco-elastic solids at small strains with equal rheological response in all tensorial components, utilizing boundary element method (BEM), is introduced.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-27 C. G. Panagiotopoulos , V. Mantic , T. Roubicek

Real-time simulation of elastic structures is essential in many applications, from computer-guided surgical interventions to interactive design in mechanical engineering. The Finite Element Method is often used as the numerical method of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Alban Odot , Ryadh Haferssas , Stéphane Cotin

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

We present a higher order stabilization-free virtual element method applied to plane elasticity problems. We utilize a serendipity approach to reduce the total number of degrees of freedom from the corresponding high-order approximations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Alvin Chen , N. Sukumar

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 present a 50-line MATLAB implementation of the lowest order virtual element method for the two-dimensional Poisson problem on general polygonal meshes. The matrix formulation of the method is discussed, along with the structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Oliver J. Sutton

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 introduce a novel virtual element method (VEM) for the two dimensional Helmholtz problem endowed with impedance boundary conditions. Local approximation spaces consist of Trefftz functions, i.e., functions belonging to the kernel of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-26 L. Mascotto , I. Perugia , A. Pichler

We design a Mixed Virtual Element Method for the approximated solution to the first-order form of the acoustic wave equation. In absence of external load, the semi-discrete method exactly conserves the system energy. To integrate in time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Franco Dassi , Alessio Fumagalli , Ilario Mazzieri , Giuseppe Vacca

In this paper, we propose and analyse a numerical method to solve 2D Dirichlet time-harmonic elastic wave equations. The procedure is based on the decoupling of the elastic vector field into scalar Pressure ($P$-) and Shear ($S$-) waves via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Silvia Falletta , Matteo Ferrari , Letizia Scuderi

In this article, we develop the $C^1$-nonconforming $C^0$-conforming virtual element method (VEM) for the vanishing moment approximation of the second-order fully nonlinear Monge-Amp\`ere equation in two dimensions. In the vanishing moment…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Scott Congreve , Alice Hodson , Anwesh Pradhan

We propose an implementation of linear finite element method for nonlocal diffusion problem in 2D space. In the implementation, we reduce the integral from 4D to 2D which would simplify the computation significantly.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Zuoqiang Shi

We propose a combined nodal integration and virtual element method for compressible and nearly incompressible elasticity, wherein the strain is averaged at the nodes from the strain of surrounding virtual elements. For the strain averaging…