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The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a well-established procedure for computing approximate solutions to deterministic engineering problems described by partial differential equations. FEM produces discrete approximations of the solution with…

We introduce and analyse the first order Enlarged Enhancement Virtual Element Method (E$^2$VEM) for the Poisson problem. The method allows the definition of bilinear forms that do not require a stabilization term, thanks to the exploitation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Francesca Marcon

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

The present paper extends the theory of Adaptive Virtual Element Methods (AVEMs) to the three-dimensional meshes showing the possibility to bound the stabilization term by the residual-type error estimator. This new bound enables a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Stefano Berrone , Davide Fassino , Fabio Vicini

In this work, we present the a posteriori error analysis of Stabilization-Free Virtual Element Methods for the 2D Poisson equation. The abscence of a stabilizing bilinear form in the scheme allows to prove the equivalence between a suitably…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Davide Fassino , Francesca Marcon

We propose and analyze an $H^2$-conforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the simplest linear elliptic PDEs in nondivergence form with Cordes coefficients. The VEM hinges on a hierarchical construction valid for any dimension $d \ge 2$.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Guillaume Bonnet , Andrea Cangiani , Ricardo H. Nochetto

In two dimensions, we propose and analyze an a posteriori error estimator for the acoustic spectral problem based on the virtual element method in $\H(\div;\Omega)$. Introducing an auxiliary unknown, we use the fact that the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Felipe Lepe , David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Iván Velásquez

In this paper, we analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for solving a non-selfadjoint fourth-order eigenvalue problem derived from the transmission eigenvalue problem. We write a variational formulation and propose a $C^1$-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 David Mora , Iván Velásquez

This paper presents the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the modeling of crack propagation in 2D within the context of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). By exploiting the advantage of mesh flexibility in the VEM, we establish an…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Vien Minh Nguyen-Thanh , Xiaoying Zhuang , Hung Nguyen-Xuan , Timon Rabczuk , Peter Wriggers

In this paper, we give a new type of a posteriori error estimators suitable for moving finite element methods under anisotropic meshes for general second-order elliptic problems. The computation of estimators is simple once corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Xiaobo Yin , Hehu Xie

The purpose of the present paper is to develop $C^1$ Virtual Elements in three dimensions for linear elliptic fourth order problems, motivated by the difficulties that standard conforming Finite Elements encounter in this framework. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-15 Lourenco Beirão da Veiga , Franco Dassi , Alessandro Russo

A residual based {\em a posteriori} error estimator is derived for a quadratic finite element method (fem) for the elliptic obstacle problem. The error estimator involves various residuals consisting the data of the problem, discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Thirupathi Gudi , Kamana Porwal

An element based adaptation method is developed for an anisotropic a posteriori error estimator. The adaptation does not make use of a metric, but instead equidistributes the error over elements using local mesh modifications. Numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Edward Boey , Yves Bourgault , Thierry Giordano

In this paper we introduce and analyze the residual-based a posteriori error estimation of the partially penalized immersed finite element method for solving elliptic interface problems. The immersed finite element method can be naturally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Cuiyu He , Xu Zhang

We consider the space-time boundary element method (BEM) for the heat equation with prescribed initial and Dirichlet data. We propose a residual-type a posteriori error estimator that is a lower bound and, up to weighted $L_2$-norms of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Gregor Gantner , Raymond van Venetië

We numerically validate the Virtual Element Method of order k for general second order elliptic problems with variable coefficients in three dimensions. Moreover, we investigate numerically also the Serendipity version of the VEM (in three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Lourenco Beirao da Veiga , Franco Brezzi , Franco Dassi , Luisa Donatella Marini , Alessandro Russo

Recovery type a posteriori error estimators are popular, particularly in the engineering community, for their computationally inexpensive, easy to implement, and generally asymptotically exactness. Unlike the residual type error estimators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Ying Liu , Jingjing Xiao , Nianyu Yi , Huihui Cao

We consider an elliptic linear-quadratic parameter estimation problem with a finite number of parameters. A novel a priori bound for the parameter error is proved and, based on this bound, an adaptive finite element method driven by an a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Roland Becker , Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

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

We consider a 1D periodic atomistic model, for which we formulate and analyze an adaptive variant of a quasicontinuum method. We establish a posteriori error estimates for the energy norm and for the energy, based on a posteriori residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Christoph Ortner , Hao Wang