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A hybrid framework integrating the Virtual Element Method (VEM) with deep learning is presented as an initial step toward developing efficient and flexible numerical models for one-dimensional Euler-Bernoulli beams. The primary aim is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Paulo Akira F. Enabe , Rodrigo Provasi

This paper establishes the optimal $H^1$-norm error estimate for a nonstandard finite element method for approximating $H^2$ strong solutions of second order linear elliptic PDEs in non-divergence form with continuous coefficients. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Xiaobing Feng , Stefan Schnake

This paper presents a new narrow-stencil finite difference method for approximating the viscosity solution of second order fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations including Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

In this paper, we design and analyze a Virtual Element discretization for the steady motion of non-Newtonian, incompressible fluids. A specific stabilization, tailored to mimic the monotonicity and boundedness properties of the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-07 P. F. Antonietti , L. Beirao da Veiga , M. Botti , G. Vacca , M. Verani

The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation (HJB) provides the globally optimal solution to large classes of control problems. Unfortunately, this generality comes at a price, the calculation of such solutions is typically intractible for systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Matanya B. Horowitz , Anil Damle , Joel W. Burdick

In this paper we construct conforming Virtual Element approximations on domains with curved boundary and/or internal curved interfaces, both in two and three dimensions. Our approach allows to impose both Dirichlet and Neumann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Daniele Prada , Franco Brezzi , L. Donatella Marini

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-16 P. F. Antonietti , G. Manzini , I. Mazzieri , H. Mourad , M. Verani

A simple, yet efficient procedure to solve quasistatic problems of special linear visco-elastic solids at small strains with equal rheological response in all tensorial components, utilizing boundary element method (BEM), is introduced.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-27 C. G. Panagiotopoulos , V. Mantic , T. Roubicek

In this paper we study a first extension of the theory of mild solutions for HJB equations in Hilbert spaces to the case when the domain is not the whole space. More precisely, we consider a half-space as domain, and a semilinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Alessandro Calvia , Gianluca Cappa , Fausto Gozzi , Enrico Priola

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jianguo Huang , Yue Yu

We present an a posteriori error analysis for the mixed virtual element method (mixed VEM) applied to second order elliptic equations in divergence form with mixed boundary conditions. The resulting error estimator is of residual-type. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Andrea Cangiani , Mauricio Munar

In this work we analyze a virtual element method on polyhedral meshes for solving the sixth-order elliptic problem with simply supported boundary conditions. We apply the Ciarlet-Raviart arguments to introduce an auxiliary unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Franco Dassi , David Mora , Carlos Reales , Ivàn Velàsquez

We present a family of Virtual Element Methods for three-dimensional linear elasticity problems based on the Hellinger-Reissner variational principle. A convergence and stability analysis is developed. Moreover, using the hybridization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Michele Visinoni

Computing optimal feedback controls for nonlinear systems generally requires solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, which are notoriously difficult when the state dimension is large. Existing strategies for high-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

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

We present a kernel-based linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach for the approximate solution of Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equations arising in nonlinear optimal control. The method represents the gradient of the value function in a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Boumediene Hamzi , Umesh Vaidya

We introduce a new family of high order accurate semi-implicit schemes for the solution of non-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations on unstructured polygonal meshes. The time discretization is based on a splitting between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Walter Boscheri , Andrea Chiozzi , Michele Giuliano Carlino , Giulia Bertaglia

In this paper we study the mixed virtual element approximation to an elliptic optimal control problem with boundary observations. The objective functional of this type of optimal control problem contains the outward normal derivatives of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Minghui Yang , Zhaojie Zhou

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

We develop a numerical assessment of the Virtual Element Method for the discretization of a diffusion-reaction model problem, for higher "polynomial" order k and three space dimensions. Although the main focus of the present study is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-16 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , A. Russo