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We initiate the design and the analysis of stabilization-free Virtual Element Methods for the laplacian problem written in mixed form. A Virtual Element version of the lowest order Raviart-Thomas Finite Element is considered. To reduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Andrea Borio , Carlo Lovadina , Francesca Marcon , Michele Visinoni

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a Galerkin approximation method that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to polytopal meshes. In this paper, we present a conforming formulation that generalizes the Scott-Vogelius finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Gianmarco Manzini , Annamaria Mazzia

In this paper we propose a new mixed virtual element formulation for the numerical approximation of viscoelasticity equations with weakly imposed stress symmetry. The governing equations use the Zener model and are expressed in terms of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Sarvesh Kumar , Utkarsh Rajput , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

In this paper, we propose an eXtended Virtual Element Method (X-VEM) for two-dimensional linear elastic fracture. This approach, which is an extension of the standard Virtual Element Method (VEM), facilitates mesh-independent modeling of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Elena Benvenuti , Andrea Chiozzi , Gianmarco Manzini , N. Sukumar

We present and analyze a Virtual Element Method (VEM) of arbitrary polynomial order $k\in\mathbb{N}$ for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on a surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The method combines the Surface Finite Element Method (SFEM) [Dziuk,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Ivonne Sgura

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a very effective framework to design numerical approximations with high global regularity to the solutions of elliptic partial differential equations. In this paper, we review the construction of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Gianmarco Manzini , Simone Scacchi , Marco Verani

In this letter we compare the behaviour of standard Virtual Element Methods (VEM) and stabilization free Enlarged Enhancement Virtual Element Methods (E$^2$VEM) with the focus on some elliptic test problems whose solution and diffusivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Francesca Marcon

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Mehdi Dehghan , Zeinab Gharibi , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

In this work we design a novel $C^1$-conforming virtual element method of arbitrary order $k \geq 2$, to solve the biharmonic problem on a domain with curved boundary and internal curved interfaces in two dimensions. By introducing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-30 L. Beirão da Veiga , D. Mora , A. Silgado

In this paper we develop a $C^0$-conforming virtual element method (VEM) for a class of second-order quasilinear elliptic PDEs in two dimensions. We present a posteriori error analysis for this problem and derive a residual based error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Scott Congreve , Alice Hodson

The lowest-order Neural Approximated Virtual Element Method on polygonal elements is proposed here. This method employs a neural network to locally approximate the Virtual Element basis functions, thereby eliminating issues concerning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Stefano Berrone , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora

We develop a lowest-order nonconforming virtual element method for planar linear elasticity, which can be viewed as an extension of the idea in Falk (1991) to the virtual element method (VEM), with the family of polygonal meshes satisfying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Yue Yu

We present a space-time virtual element method for the discretization of the heat equation, which is defined on general prismatic meshes and variable degrees of accuracy. Strategies to handle efficiently the space-time mesh structure are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Sergio Gómez , Lorenzo Mascotto , Ilaria Perugia

This article presents a higher-order spectral element method for the two-dimensional Stokes interface problem involving a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient. The proposed numerical formulation is based on least-squares formulation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Kishore Kumar Naraparaju , Shivangi Joshi , Subhashree Mohapatra

In the framework of virtual element discretizazions, we address the problem of imposing non homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in a weak form, both on polygonal/polyhedral domains and on two/three dimensional domains with curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Silvia Bertoluzza , Micol Pennacchio , Daniele Prada

We develop a geometrically intrinsic formulation of the arbitrary-order Virtual Element Method (VEM) on polygonal cells for the numerical solution of elliptic surface partial differential equations (PDEs). The PDE is first written in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Elena Bachini , Gianmarco Manzini , Mario Putti

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 an hp-adaptive virtual element method (VEM) based on the hypercircle method of Prager and Synge for the approximation of solutions to diffusion problems. We introduce a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Franco Dassi , Joscha Gedicke , Lorenzo Mascotto

We develop and analyse residual-based a posteriori error estimates for the virtual element discretisation of a nonlinear stress-assisted diffusion problem in two and three dimensions. The model problem involves a two-way coupling between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Franco Dassi , Rekha Khot , Andres E. Rubiano , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier