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We analyse the nonconforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximation of elliptic eigenvalue problems. The nonconforming VEM allow to treat in the same formulation the two- and three-dimensional case.We present two possible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Francesca Gardini , Gianmarco Manzini , Giuseppe Vacca

We present the non-conforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the numerical approximation of velocity and pressure in the steady Stokes problem. The pressure is approximated using discontinuous piecewise polynomials, while each component…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Andrea Cangiani , Vitaliy Gyrya , Gianmarco Manzini

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 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

The aim of this paper is to develop a virtual element method (VEM) for the vibration problem of thin plates on polygonal meshes. We consider a variational formulation relying only on the transverse displacement of the plate and propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Iván Velásquez

In this paper, we explore the use of the Virtual Element Method concepts to solve scalar and system hyperbolic problems on general polygonal grids. The new schemes stem from the active flux approach \cite{AF1}, which combines the usage of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Rémi Abgrall , Yongle Liu , Walter Boscheri

The third medium contact has been proven to be an effective approach for simulating contact problems involving large deformations. Unlike traditional contact algorithms, the third medium contact introduces a third medium between two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Bing-Bing Xu , Peter Wriggers

We develop a virtual element method to solve a convective Brinkman-Forchheimer problem coupled with a heat equation. This coupled model may allow for thermal diffusion and viscosity as a function of temperature. Under standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Danilo Amigo , Felipe Lepe , Enrique Otarola , Gonzalo Rivera

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-29 N. Sukumar , John E. Bolander

This paper presents two approaches: the virtual element method (VEM) and the stabilization-free virtual element method (SFVEM) for analyzing thermomechanical behavior in electronic packaging structures with geometric multi-scale features.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Yanpeng Gong , Sishuai Li , Fei Qin , Bingbing Xu

We introduce a novel virtual element method (VEM) for the two dimensional Helmholtz problem endowed with impedance boundary conditions. Local approximation spaces consist of Trefftz functions, i.e., functions belonging to the kernel of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-26 L. Mascotto , I. Perugia , A. Pichler

In this work, we have discretized a system of time-dependent nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction equations with the virtual element method over the spatial domain and the Euler method for the temporal interval. For the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 M. Arrutselvi , E. Natarajan

In the present paper we introduce a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximate solution of general linear second order elliptic problems in mixed form, allowing for variable coefficients. We derive a theoretical convergence analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-25 L. Beirao da Veiga , F. Brezzi , L. D. Marini , A. Russo

We present numerical tests of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) tailored for the discretization of a three dimensional Poisson problem with high-order "polynomial" degree (up to $p=10$). Besides, we discuss possible reasons for which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Lorenzo Mascotto , Franco Dassi

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

In this paper, we formulate, analyse and implement the discrete formulation of the Brinkman problem with mixed boundary conditions, including slip boundary condition, using the Nitsche's technique for virtual element methods. The divergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-13 David Mora , Jesus Vellojin , Nitesh Verma

This work studies the approximation of plane problems concerning transversely isotropic elasticity, using a low-order Virtual Element Method (VEM), with a focus on near-incompressibility and near-inextensibility. Additionally, both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 D. van Huyssteen , B. D. Reddy

This work considers the application of the virtual element method to plane hyperelasticity problems with a novel approach to the selection of stabilization parameters. The method is applied to a range of numerical examples and well known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Daniel van Huyssteen , Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy

One remarkable feature of virtual element methods (VEMs) is their great flexibility and robustness when used on almost arbitrary polytopal meshes. This very feature makes it widely used in both fitted and unfitted mesh methods. Despite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Ruchi Guo

In this work, we present and analyze a novel stabilized virtual element formulation for the coupled Stokes-Temperature equation on polygonal meshes, employing equal-order element pairs where viscosity depends on temperature. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Sudheer Mishra , Natarajan E