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We propose and analyse residual-based a posteriori error estimates for the virtual element discretisation applied to the thin plate vibration problem in both two and three dimensions. Our approach involves a conforming $C^1$ discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Franco Dassi , Andres E. Rubiano , Iván Velásquez

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

The reparameterization gradient has become a widely used method to obtain Monte Carlo gradients to optimize the variational objective. However, this technique does not easily apply to commonly used distributions such as beta or gamma…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-20 Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Michalis K. Titsias , David M. Blei

We introduce and explain key relations between a posteriori error estimates and subspace correction methods viewed as preconditioners for problems in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. We set the stage using the Finite Element Exterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yuwen Li , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

We introduce a novel residual-based a posteriori error estimator for the conforming $C^1$ Virtual Element Method (VEM) applied to the buckling eigenvalue problem, incorporating nonlinear plane stress effects in both two and three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Franco Dassi , Andres E Rubiano , Iván Velásquez

Estimating hyperparameters has been a long-standing problem in machine learning. We consider the case where the task at hand is modeled as the solution to an optimization problem. Here the exact gradient with respect to the hyperparameters…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lindon Roberts

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 the present contribution we develop a sharper error analysis for the Virtual Element Method, applied to a model elliptic problem, that separates the element boundary and element interior contributions to the error. As a consequence we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 L. Beirao da Veiga , G. Vacca

Multilevel methods represent a powerful approach in numerical solution of partial differential equations. The multilevel structure can also be used to construct estimates for total and algebraic errors of computed approximations. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Petr Vacek , Jan Papež , Zdeněk Strakoš

We introduce a Monte Carlo Virtual Element estimator based on Virtual Element discretizations for stochastic elliptic partial differential equations with random diffusion coefficients. We prove estimates for the statistical approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Paola F. Antonietti , Francesca Bonizzoni , Ilaria Perugia , Marco Verani

A general framework for goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation for finite volume methods is presented. The framework does not rely on recasting finite volume methods as special cases of finite element methods, but instead directly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-24 Qingshan Chen , Max Gunzburger

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 present a reduced basis method for cheaply constructing (possibly rough) approximations to the nodal basis functions of the virtual element space, and propose to use such approximations for the design of the stabilization term in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Fabio Credali , Silvia Bertoluzza , Daniele Prada

We present a generic framework for gradient reconstruction schemes on unstructured meshes using the notion of a dyadic sum-vector product. The proposed formulation reconstructs centroidal gradients of a scalar from its directional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Mandeep Deka , Ashwani Assam , Ganesh Natarajan

The lowest-order Neural Approximated Virtual Element Method on polygonal elements is proposed here. This method employs a neural network to locally approximate the Virtual Element basis functions, thereby eliminating issues concerning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Stefano Berrone , Moreno Pintore , Gioana Teora

We consider some (anisotropic and piecewise constant) convection-diffusion-reaction problems in domains of R2, approximated by a discontinuous Galerkin method with polynomials of any degree. We propose two a posteriori error estimators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-04 Emmanuel Creusé , Serge Nicaise

We present an hp-adaptive virtual element method (VEM) based on the hypercircle method of Prager and Synge for the approximation of solutions to diffusion problems. We introduce a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Franco Dassi , Joscha Gedicke , Lorenzo Mascotto

We discuss and analyze the virtual element method on general polygonal meshes for the time-dependent Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, which are a nonlinear coupled system widely used in semiconductors and ion channels. The spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Ying Yang , Ya Liu , Shi Shu

This paper develops and discusses a residual-based a posteriori error estimator for parabolic surface partial differential equations on closed stationary surfaces. The full discretization uses the surface finite element method in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Balázs Kovács , Michael Lantelme

In this study, we employ the variational multiscale (VMS) concept to develop a posteriori error estimates for the stationary convection-diffusion-reaction equation. The variational multiscale method is based on splitting the continuous part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Ramon Codina , Hauke Gravenkamp , Sheraz Ahmed Khan