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In this paper, we study applications of the virtual element method (VEM) for simulating the deformation of multiphase composites. The VEM is a Galerkin approach that is applicable to meshes that consist of arbitrarily-shaped polygonal and…
This paper devises a novel lowest-order conforming virtual element method (VEM) for planar linear elasticity with the pure displacement/traction boundary condition. The main trick is to view a generic polygon $K$ as a new one…
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…
The paper is concerned with the finite element solution of the Poisson equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition in a three-dimensional domain. Anisotropic, graded meshes from a former paper are reused for dealing with the…
The inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation poses significant challenges, particularly when sources exhibit complex or discontinuous geometries. Traditional numerical methods suffer from prohibitive computational costs, while…
The adaptive nonconforming Morley finite element method (FEM) approximates a regular solution to the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n equations with optimal convergence rates for sufficiently fine triangulations and small bulk parameter in the D\"orfler…
This work studies the approximation of plane problems concerning transversely isotropic elasticity, using a low-order Virtual Element Method (VEM), with a focus on near-incompressibility and near-inextensibility. Additionally, both…
In this article, we propose and analyze a fully coupled, nonlinear, and energy-stable virtual element method (VEM) for solving the coupled Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) and Navier--Stokes (NS) equations modeling microfluidic and…
It is well known that the solution of topology optimization problems may be affected both by the geometric properties of the computational mesh, which can steer the minimization process towards local (and non-physical) minima, and by the…
In this paper we present a new H(div)-conforming unfitted finite element method for the mixed Poisson problem which is robust in the cut configuration and preserves conservation properties of body-fitted finite element methods. The key is…
This paper provides a new regularization method which is particularly suitable for linear exponentially ill-posed problems. Under logarithmic source conditions (which have a natural interpretation in terms of Sobolev spaces in the…
Second-order partial differential equations in non-divergence form are considered. Equations of this kind typically arise as subproblems for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in the context of stochastic optimal control, or…
Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…
This paper derives some discrete maximum principles for $P1$-conforming finite element approximations for quasi-linear second order elliptic equations. The results are extensions of the classical maximum principles in the theory of partial…
In this work we analyze the inverse problem of recovering the space-dependent potential coefficient in an elliptic / parabolic problem from distributed observation. We establish novel (weighted) conditional stability estimates under very…
In this work, we analyse a simplified frictional contact problem and its variational formulation that has a form of the elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. For this problem, we consider a numerical approximation based on…
For the second lowest-order Raviart--Thomas mixed method, we prove that the canonical interpolant and finite element solution for the vector variable in elliptic problems are superclose in the $H(\text{div})$-norm on mildly structured…
The mesh flexibility offered by the virtual element method through the permission of arbitrary element geometries, and the seamless incorporation of `hanging' nodes, has made the method increasingly attractive in the context of adaptive…
We consider primal-dual mixed finite element methods for the solution of the elliptic Cauchy problem, or other related data assimilation problems. The method has a local conservation property. We derive a priori error estimates using known…
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…