Related papers: Virtual Elements on polyhedra with a curved face
In this paper we initiate the investigation of Virtual Elements with curved faces. We consider the case of a fixed curved boundary in two dimensions, as it happens in the approximation of problems posed on a curved domain or with a curved…
We present a new method to construct Virtual Element spaces on polygons with curved edges.
In this paper we construct conforming Virtual Element approximations on domains with curved boundary and/or internal curved interfaces, both in two and three dimensions. Our approach allows to impose both Dirichlet and Neumann…
In this work we present an extension of the Virtual Element Method with curved edges for the numerical approximation of the second order wave equation in a bidimensional setting. Curved elements are used to describe the domain boundary, as…
We analyze and validate the virtual element method combined with a boundary correction similar to the one in [1,2], to solve problems on two dimensional domains with curved boundaries approximated by polygonal domains. We focus on the case…
In this work, we propose an extension of the mixed Virtual Element Method (VEM) for bi-dimensional computational grids with curvilinear edge elements. The approximation by means of rectilinear edges of a domain with curvilinear geometrical…
The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a well-established framework for solving partial differential equations on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid VEM that integrates both conforming and nonconforming…
We explore the recently-proposed Virtual Element Method (VEM) for numerical solution of boundary value problems on arbitrary polyhedral meshes. More specifically, we focus on the elasticity equations in three-dimensions and elaborate upon…
In the present work we generalize the curvilinear Virtual Element technology, introduced for a simple linear scalar problem in a previous work, to generic 2D solid mechanic problems in small deformations. Such generalization also includes…
The virtual element method (VEM) allows discretization of elasticity and plasticity problems with polygons in 2D and polyhedrals in 3D. The polygons (and polyhedrals) can have an arbitrary number of sides and can be concave or convex. These…
In the present paper we introduce a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximate solution of general linear second order elliptic problems in mixed form, allowing for variable coefficients. We derive a theoretical convergence analysis…
We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for possibly nonlinear elastic and inelastic problems, mainly focusing on a small deformation regime. The numerical scheme is based on a low-order approximation of the displacement field, as well as…
We present two approaches to constructing isoparametric Virtual Element Methods of arbitrary order for linear elliptic partial differential equations on general two-dimensional domains. The first method approximates the variational problem…
The virtual element method (VEM) allows discretization of the problem domain with polygons in 2D. The polygons can have an arbitrary number of sides and can be concave or convex. These features, among others, are attractive for meshing…
We consider the discretization of a boundary value problem for a general linear second-order elliptic operator with smooth coefficients using the Virtual Element approach. As in [59] the problem is supposed to have a unique solution, but…
We introduce the nonconforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximation of second order elliptic problems. We present the construction of the new element in two and three dimensions, highlighting the main differences with the…
We consider a model Poisson problem in $\R^d$ ($d=2,3$) and establish error estimates for virtual element methods on polygonal or polyhedral meshes that can contain small edges ($d=2$) or small faces ($d=3$).
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…
In this work we present a novel bulk-surface virtual element method (BSVEM) for the numerical approximation of elliptic bulk-surface partial differential equations (BSPDEs) in three space dimensions. The BSVEM is based on the discretisation…
We numerically validate the Virtual Element Method of order k for general second order elliptic problems with variable coefficients in three dimensions. Moreover, we investigate numerically also the Serendipity version of the VEM (in three…