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We study the $h$- and $p$-versions of non-conforming harmonic virtual element methods (VEM) for the approximation of the Dirichlet-Laplace problem on a 2D polygonal domain, providing quasi-optimal error bounds. Harmonic VEM do not make use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Lorenzo Mascotto , Ilaria Perugia , Alexander Pichler

We construct a nonconforming virtual element method (ncVEM) based on approximation spaces that are enriched with special singular functions. This enriched ncVEM is tailored for the approximation of solutions to elliptic problems, which have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 E. Artioli , L. Mascotto

We present the essential instruments to deal with Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the resolution of partial differential equations in mixed form. Functional spaces, degrees of freedom, projectors and differential operators are described…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Franco Dassi , Giuseppe Vacca

This study presents a finite element and virtual element (FE-VE) coupled method for thermomechanical analysis in electronic packaging structures. The approach partitions computational domains strategically, employing FEM for regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Yanpeng Gong , Sishuai Li , Yue Mei , Bingbing Xu , Fei Qin , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

Simulation of fracturing processes in porous rocks can be divided into two main branches: (i) modeling the rock as a continuum which is enhanced with special features to account for fractures, or (ii) modeling the rock by a discrete (or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Halvor Møll Nilsen , Idar Larsen , Xavier Raynaud

This manuscript presents the Quantum Finite Element Method (Q-FEM) developed for use in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers and employs the variational quantum linear solver (VQLS) algorithm. The proposed method leverages the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Abhishek Arora , Benjamin M. Ward , Caglar Oskay

A novel boundary element method (BEM) removes the classical dependence on explicit fundamental solutions and extends quasi-optimal BEM discretisations to strongly elliptic operators with variable coefficients. The approach constructs a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Benedikt Gräßle , Stefan A. Sauter

The focus of this study is the construction and numerical validation of parallel block preconditioners for low order virtual element discretizations of the three-dimensional Maxwell equations. The virtual element method (VEM) is a recent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Nicolás A. Barnafi , Franco Dassi , Simone Scacchi

We consider, as a simple model problem, the application of Virtual Element Methods (VEM) to the linear Magnetostatic three-dimensional problem in the formulation of F. Kikuchi. In doing so, we also introduce new serendipity VEM spaces,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Brezzi , F. Dassi , L. D. Marini , A. Russo

We introduce a new Eulerian simulation framework for liquid animation that leverages both finite element and finite volume methods. In contrast to previous methods where the whole simulation domain is discretized either using the finite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Tatsuya Koike , Shigeo Morishima , Ryoichi Ando

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-09 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Brezzi , L. D. Marini , A. Russo

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 E. Artioli , L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi

A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) Virtual Element Method (VEM) is developed for approximating a model two dimensional Poisson problem. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape regularity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

The virtual element method (VEM) is a stabilized Galerkin method that is robust and accurate on general polygonal meshes. This feature makes it an appealing candidate for simulations involving meshes with embedded interfaces and evolving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Ramsharan Rangarajan , N. Sukumar

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is used to perform the discretization of the Poisson problem on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. This results in a symmetric positive definite linear system, which is solved iteratively using overlapping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser , Adam Wasiak

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Lourenco Beirao da Veiga , Franco Brezzi , Franco Dassi , Luisa Donatella Marini , Alessandro Russo

This work is a user guide to the FEMPAR scientific software library. FEMPAR is an open-source object-oriented framework for the simulation of partial differential equations (PDEs) using finite element methods on distributed-memory…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín

The virtual element method (VEM) is a family of numerical methods to discretize partial differential equations on general polygonal or polyhedral computational grids. However, the resulting linear systems are often ill-conditioned and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser