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We present a velocity-based moving mesh virtual element method for the numerical solution of PDEs involving moving boundaries. The virtual element method is used for computing both the mesh velocity and a conservative Arbitrary…
In this paper, we study applications of the virtual element method (VEM) for simulating the deformation of multiphase composites. The VEM is a Galerkin approach that is applicable to meshes that consist of arbitrarily-shaped polygonal and…
The signed volume function for polyhedra can be generalized to a mean volume function for volume elements by averaging over the triangulations of the underlying polyhedron. If we consider these up to translation and scaling, the resulting…
Polytopal Element Methods (PEM) allow to solve differential equations on general polygonal and polyhedral grids, potentially offering great flexibility to mesh generation algorithms. Differently from classical finite element methods, where…
We consider the $C^1$-Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the conforming numerical approximation of some variants of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on polygonal meshes. In particular, we focus on the discretization of the advective Cahn-Hilliard…
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…
This short note reports a new derivation of the optimal order of the a priori error estimates for conforming virtual element methods (VEM) on 3D polyhedral meshes based on an error equation. The geometric assumptions, which are necessary…
In this paper, we develop a high-order adaptive virtual element method (VEM) to simulate the self-consistent field theory (SCFT) model in arbitrary domains. The VEM is very flexible in handling general polygon elements and can treat hanging…
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…
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…
In this paper we propose and analyze a virtual element method to approximate the natural frequencies of the acoustic eigenvalue problem with polygonal meshes that allow the presence of small edges. With the aid of a suitable seminorm that…
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,…
Mesh optimization procedures are generally a combination of node smoothing and discrete operations which affect a small number of elements to improve the quality of the overall mesh. These procedures are useful as a post-processing step in…
This work presents a study on the computational homogenization of electro-magneto-mechanically coupled problems through the Virtual Element Method (VEM). VE-approaches have great potential for the homogenization of the physical properties…
In this thesis, a computational framework for microstructural modelling of transverse behaviour of heterogeneous materials is presented. The context of this research is part of the broad and active field of Computational Micromechanics,…
Only a few numerical methods can treat boundary value problems on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The BEM-based Finite Element Method is one of the new discretization strategies, which make use of and benefits from the flexibility of these…
We design the conforming virtual element method for the numerical approximation of the two dimensional elastodynamics problem. We prove stability and convergence of the semi-discrete approximation and derive optimal error estimates under…
We design an adaptive virtual element method (AVEM) of lowest order over triangular meshes with hanging nodes in 2d, which are treated as polygons. AVEM hinges on the stabilization-free a posteriori error estimators recently derived in [8].…
The typical goal of surface remeshing consists in finding a mesh that is (1) geometrically faithful to the original geometry, (2) as coarse as possible to obtain a low-complexity representation and (3) free of bad elements that would hamper…
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…