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The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a novel family of numerical methods for approximating partial differential equations on very general polygonal or polyhedral computational grids. This work aims to propose a Balancing Domain Decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Franco Dassi , Stefano Zampini , Simone Scacchi

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a very effective framework to design numerical approximations with high global regularity to the solutions of elliptic partial differential equations. In this paper, we review the construction of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Gianmarco Manzini , Simone Scacchi , Marco Verani

We present a direct Poisson solver for massively parallel simulations on three-dimensional Cartesian grids with non-uniform spacing. The method uses a tensor-based formulation in which the operator is diagonalized numerically along two…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Pedro Costa , Duarte Palancha , Joshua Romero , Roberto Verzicco , Massimiliano Fatica

We develop a geometrically intrinsic formulation of the arbitrary-order Virtual Element Method (VEM) on polygonal cells for the numerical solution of elliptic surface partial differential equations (PDEs). The PDE is first written in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Elena Bachini , Gianmarco Manzini , Mario Putti

This paper addresses the efficient solution of linear systems arising from curl-conforming finite element discretizations of $H(\mathrm{curl})$ elliptic problems with heterogeneous coefficients. We first employ the discrete form of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Chupeng Ma , Yongwei Zhang

This paper focuses on the analysis of conforming virtual element methods for general second-order linear elliptic problems with rough source terms and applies it to a Poisson inverse source problem with rough measurements. For the forward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Rekha Khot , Neela Nataraj , Nitesh Verma

The virtual element method (VEM) allows discretization of the problem domain with polygons in 2D. The polygons can have an arbitrary number of sides and can be concave or convex. These features, among others, are attractive for meshing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 L. L. Yaw

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

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a well-established framework for solving partial differential equations on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid VEM that integrates both conforming and nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , A. Russo , M. Trezzi

Additive overlapping Schwarz Methods are iterative methods of the domain decomposition type for the solution of partial differential equations. Numerical and parallel scalability of these methods can be achieved by adding coarse levels. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Stephan Köhler , Oliver Rheinbach

Monolithic preconditioners applied to the linear systems arising during the solution of the discretized incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are typically more robust than preconditioners based on incomplete block factorizations. Lower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Alexander Heinlein , Axel Klawonn , Jascha Knepper , Lea Saßmannshausen

For the solution of 2D exterior Dirichlet Poisson problems we propose the coupling of a Curved Virtual Element Method (CVEM) with a Boundary Element Method (BEM), by using decoupled approximation orders. We provide optimal convergence error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Luca Desiderio , Silvia Falletta , Matteo Ferrari , Letizia Scuderi

We present a multigrid algorithm for the solution of the linear systems of equations stemming from the $p-$version of the Virtual Element discretization of a two-dimensional Poisson problem. The sequence of coarse spaces are constructed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-13 P. F. Antonietti , L. Mascotto , M. Verani

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

We introduce and analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for the Helmholtz problem with approximating spaces made of products of low order VEM functions and plane waves. We restrict ourselves to the 2D Helmholtz equation with impedance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Ilaria Perugia , Paola Pietra , Alessandro Russo

We present and analyze a class of nonsymmetric preconditioners within a normal (weighted least-squares) matrix form for use in GMRES to solve nonsymmetric matrix problems that typically arise in finite element discretizations. An example of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Andrew T. Barker , Panayot S. Vassilevski

We present in a unified framework new conforming and nonconforming Virtual Element Methods (VEM) for general second order elliptic problems in two and three dimensions. The differential operator is split into its symmetric and non-symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Andrea Cangiani , Gianmarco Manzini , Oliver J. Sutton

The present work deals with the formulation of a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for two dimensional structural problems. The contribution is split in two parts: in part I, the elastic problem is discussed, while in part II [3] the method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Edoardo Artioli , Lourenco Beirao da Veiga , Carlo Lovadina , Elio Sacco

In this paper, we propose an efficient parallelization strategy for boundary element method (BEM) solvers that perform the electromagnetic analysis of structures with lossy conductors. The proposed solver is accelerated with the adaptive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Damian Marek , Shashwat Sharma , Piero Triverio

A symmetric and a nonsymmetric variant of the additive Schwarz preconditioner are proposed for the solution of a nonsymmetric system of algebraic equations arising from a general finite volume element discretization of symmetric elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Leszek Marcinkowski , Talal Rahman , Atle Loneland , Jan Valdman