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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

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 introduce a new class of Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving nonlinear conservation laws on unstructured Voronoi meshes that use a nonconforming Virtual Element basis defined within each polygonal control volume. The basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Walter Boscheri , Giulia Bertaglia

We numerically investigate the possibility of defining stabilization-free Virtual Element (VEM) discretizations of advection-diffusion problems in the advection-dominated regime. To this end, we consider a SUPG stabilized formulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Andrea Borio , Martina Busetto , Francesca Marcon

We introduce a Monte Carlo Virtual Element estimator based on Virtual Element discretizations for stochastic elliptic partial differential equations with random diffusion coefficients. We prove estimates for the statistical approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Paola F. Antonietti , Francesca Bonizzoni , Ilaria Perugia , Marco Verani

We propose a new mixed finite element method for the three-dimensional steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kinematics equations for which the velocity of the fluid is given. Although prescribing the velocity field leads to a simpler model than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Lingxiao Li

We introduce a new family of high order accurate semi-implicit schemes for the solution of non-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations on unstructured polygonal meshes. The time discretization is based on a splitting between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Walter Boscheri , Andrea Chiozzi , Michele Giuliano Carlino , Giulia Bertaglia

In this work, we present and analyze a novel stabilized virtual element formulation for the coupled Stokes-Temperature equation on polygonal meshes, employing equal-order element pairs where viscosity depends on temperature. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Sudheer Mishra , Natarajan E

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

Enlightened from the inverse consideration of the stable continuous-time dynamics evolution, the Variation Evolving Method (VEM) analogizes the optimal solution to the equilibrium point of an infinite-dimensional dynamic system and solves…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Sheng Zhang , Bo Liao , Fei Liao

BDDC method is the most advanced method from the Balancing family of iterative substructuring methods for the solution of large systems of linear algebraic equations arising from discretization of elliptic boundary value problems. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Jan Mandel , Bedřich Sousedík , Clark R. Dohrmann

In this paper, we explore the use of the Virtual Element Method concepts to solve scalar and system hyperbolic problems on general polygonal grids. The new schemes stem from the active flux approach \cite{AF1}, which combines the usage of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Rémi Abgrall , Yongle Liu , Walter Boscheri

A virtual element method (VEM) with the first order optimal convergence order is developed for solving two-dimensional Maxwell interface problems on a special class of polygonal meshes that are cut by the interface from a background…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Ruchi Guo

It was recently demonstrated that the boundary element method based on the Burton-Miller formulation (BM-BEM), widely used for solving exterior problems, can be adapted to solve transmission problems efficiently. This approach utilises…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Keigo Tomoyasu , Hiroshi Isakari

This dissertation explores block decomposable methods for large-scale optimization problems. It focuses on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) schemes and block coordinate descent (BCD) methods. Specifically, it introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Leandro Farias Maia

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Krzysztof Bartosz , Pawel Szafraniec

In this paper we consider the three dimensional exterior Stokes problem and study the solvability of the corresponding continuous and discrete formulations that arise from the coupling of a dual-mixed variational formulation with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Gabriel N Gatica , George C. Hsiao , Salim Meddahi , Francisco-Javier Sayas

Time-domain Boundary Element Methods (BEM) have been successfully used in acoustics, optics and elastodynamics to solve transient problems numerically. However, the storage requirements are immense, since the fully populated system matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Daniel Seibel

This paper presents two approaches: the virtual element method (VEM) and the stabilization-free virtual element method (SFVEM) for analyzing thermomechanical behavior in electronic packaging structures with geometric multi-scale features.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Yanpeng Gong , Sishuai Li , Fei Qin , Bingbing Xu

A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) nonconforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for approximating a model Poisson problem is developed in both 2D and 3D. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen