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For the 2D and 3D Virtual Element Methods (VEM), a new approach to improve the conditioning of local and global matrices in the presence of badly-shaped polytopes is proposed. It defines the local projectors and the local degrees of freedom…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Stefano Berrone , Gioana Teora , Fabio Vicini

We design a virtual element method for the numerical treatment of the two-dimensional parabolic variational inequality problem on unstructured polygonal meshes. Due to the expected low regularity of the exact solution, the virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Dibyendu Adak , Gianmarco Manzini , Sundararajan Natarajan

Non divergence-free discretisations for the incompressible Stokes problem may suffer from a lack of pressure-robustness characterised by large discretisations errors due to irrotational forces in the momentum balance. This paper argues that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Derk Frerichs , Christian Merdon

In this present paper we consider a full divergence-free of high order virtual finite element algorithm to approximate the stationary inductionless magnetohydrodynamic model on polygonal meshes. More precisely, we choice appropriate virtual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Xianghai Zhou , Haiyan Su

We propose a new stable variational formulation for the quad-div problem in three dimensions and prove its well-posedness. Using this weak form, we develop and analyze the $\boldsymbol{H}(\operatorname{grad-div})$-conforming virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Xiaojing Dong , Yibing Han , Yunqing Huang

A low-order nonconforming finite element discretization of a smooth de Rham complex starting from the $H^2$ space in three dimensions is proposed, involving an $H^2$-nonconforming finite element space, a new tangentially continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Xuewei Cui , Xuehai Huang

We present stable mixed finite elements for planar linear elasticity on general quadrilateral meshes. The symmetry of the stress tensor is imposed weakly and so there are three primary variables, the stress tensor, the displacement vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Weifeng Qiu

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 L. L. Yaw

We develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of stabilized cut finite element methods for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a manifold embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$ of arbitrary codimension. The method is based on using continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing

In this paper, we propose a robust low-order stabilization-free virtual element method on quadrilateral meshes for linear elasticity that is based on the stress-hybrid principle. We refer to this approach as the Stress-Hybrid Virtual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Alvin Chen , N. Sukumar

We present a 50-line MATLAB implementation of the lowest order virtual element method for the two-dimensional Poisson problem on general polygonal meshes. The matrix formulation of the method is discussed, along with the structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Oliver J. Sutton

We analyse the interpolation properties of 2D and 3D low order virtual element face and edge spaces, which generalize N\'ed\'elec and Raviart-Thomas polynomials to polygonal-polyhedral meshes. Moreover, we investigate the stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Lorenzo Mascotto

We present a low order virtual element discretization for time dependent Maxwell's equations, which allow for the use of general polyhedral meshes. Both the semi- and fully-discrete schemes are considered. We derive optimal a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , G. Manzini , L. Mascotto

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the solution of Dirichlet problems for the quasilinear equation $-\text{div} (k(u)\text{grad} u)=f$ with essential boundary conditions. Within the VEM the nonlinear coefficient is evaluated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Andrea Cangiani , Panagiotis Chatzipantelidis , Ganesh Diwan , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

In this paper, we develop global superconvergence estimates for the lowest order Raviart--Thomas mixed finite element method for second order elliptic equations with general boundary conditions on triangular meshes, where most pairs of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Yuwen Li

In this paper we introduce a mixed virtual element method to approximate the solution for the two dimensional generalized Oseen problem. We introduce the pseudostress as an additional unknown, which allows to eliminate the pressure from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

We introduce the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for elliptic eigenvalue problems. The main result of the paper states that VEM provides an optimal order approximation of the eigenmodes. A wide set of numerical tests confirm the theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Francesca Gardini , Giuseppe Vacca

The realization of a standard Adaptive Finite Element Method (AFEM) preserves the mesh conformity by performing a completion step in the refinement loop: in addition to elements marked for refinement due to their contribution to the global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Claudio Canuto , Davide Fassino

We consider the approximation of the 2D frictionless contact problem in elasticity using the Virtual Element Methods (VEMs). To overcome the volumetric locking phenomenon in the nearly incompressible case, we adopt a mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-07 C. Lovadina , L. Molinari

A stabilized conforming mixed finite element method for the three-field (displacement, fluid flux and pressure) poroelasticity problem is developed and analyzed. We use the lowest possible approximation order, namely piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Lorenz Berger , Rafel Bordas , David Kay , Simon Tavener