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In this paper we analyze a lowest order virtual element method for the load classic reaction-convection-diffusion problem and the convection-diffusion spectral problem, where the assumptions on the polygonal meshes allow to consider small…
In the framework of virtual element discretizazions, we address the problem of imposing non homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in a weak form, both on polygonal/polyhedral domains and on two/three dimensional domains with curved…
We develop a lowest-order nonconforming virtual element method for planar linear elasticity, which can be viewed as an extension of the idea in Falk (1991) to the virtual element method (VEM), with the family of polygonal meshes satisfying…
In this work we design a novel $C^1$-conforming virtual element method of arbitrary order $k \geq 2$, to solve the biharmonic problem on a domain with curved boundary and internal curved interfaces in two dimensions. By introducing a…
The presented article contains a 3D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes of a prescribed volume V_0 of elements. The finite volume meshes are used with the Finite Element…
Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…
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…
A robust $C^0$-continuous nonconforming virtual element method (VEM) is developed for a boundary value problem arising from strain gradient elasticity in two dimensions, with the family of polygonal meshes satisfying a very general…
In this paper we analyse the convergence properties of two-level, W-cycle and V-cycle agglomeration-based geometric multigrid schemes for the numerical solution of the linear system of equations stemming from the lowest order…
Partial differential equations can be solved on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes, through Polytopal Element Methods (PEMs). Unfortunately, the relation between geometry and analysis is still unknown and subject to ongoing research in…
We present a virtual element method (VEM) for the numerical approximation of the electromagnetics subsystem of the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model in two spatial dimensions. The major advantages of the virtual element method…
Finite element approximations of minimal surface are not always precise. They can even sometimes completely collapse. In this paper, we provide a simple and inexpensive method, in terms of computational cost, to improve finite element…
We study the use of polyhedral discretizations for the solution of heat diffusion and elastodynamic problems in computer graphics. Polyhedral meshes are more natural for certain applications than pure triangular or quadrilateral meshes,…
This work introduces an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy for the topology optimization of structures made of discrete geometric components using the geometry projection method. Practical structures made of geometric shapes such as…
Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…
As modeling and visualization applications proliferate, there arises a need to simplify large polygonal models at interactive rates. Unfortunately existing polygon mesh simplification algorithms are not well suited for this task because…
In this paper we present a new GPU-oriented mesh optimization method based on high-order finite elements. Our approach relies on node movement with fixed topology, through the Target-Matrix Optimization Paradigm (TMOP) and uses a global…
In this paper we develop an evolution of the $C^1$ virtual elements of minimal degree for the approximation of the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The proposed method has the advantage of being conforming in $H^2$ and making use of a very simple…
It has been extensively studied in the literature that solving Maxwell equations is very sensitive to the mesh structure, space conformity and solution regularity. Roughly speaking, for almost all the methods in the literature, optimal…
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…