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The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a Galerkin approximation method that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to polytopal meshes. In this paper, we present a conforming formulation that generalizes the Scott-Vogelius finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Gianmarco Manzini , Annamaria Mazzia

This work presents a Virtual Element Method (VEM) formulation tailored for two-dimensional axisymmetric problems in linear elasticity. By exploiting the rotational symmetry of the geometry and loading conditions, the problem is reduced to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Paulo Akira F. Enabe , Rodrigo Provasi

The combination of Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation and experimental photo-elasticity provides both qualitative and quantitative information about the stress field in a polymer composite and particularly along the fibre-matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Matthias Deuschle , Falk K. Wittel , Henry Gerhard , Gerhard Busse , Bernd-H. Kroeplin

This paper presents a novel methodology for fast simulation and analysis of transient heat transfer. The proposed methodology is suitable for real-time applications owing to (i) establishing the solution method from the viewpoint of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jinao Zhang , Sunita Chauhan

In this paper, we present a finite element method (FEM) framework enhanced by an operator-adapted wavelet decomposition algorithm designed for the efficient analysis of multiscale electromagnetic problems. Usual adaptive FEM approaches,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 F. Şık , F. L. Teixeira , B. Shanker

Computational modelling offers a cost-effective and time-efficient alternative to experimental studies in biomedical engineering. In cardiac electro-mechanics, finite element method (FEM)-based simulations provide valuable insights into…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tan Tran , Denisa Martonova , Sigrid Leyendecker

This document contains working annotations on the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximate solution of diffusion problems with variable coefficients. To read this document you are assumed to have familiarity with concepts from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Gianmarco Manzini

We revisit the cell-based smoothed finite element method (SFEM) for quadrilateral elements and extend it to arbitrary polygons and polyhedrons in 2D and 3D, respectively. We highlight the similarity between the SFEM and the virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Sundararajan Natarajan , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Ean Tat Ooi

Within the framework of the displacement-based Virtual Element Method (VEM) for plane elasticity a significant problem is represented by an accurate evaluation of the stress field. In particular, in the classical VEM formulation, a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Edoardo Artioli , Stefano de Miranda , Carlo Lovadina , Luca Patruno

We present an efficient hybrid Neural Network-Finite Element Method (NN-FEM) for solving the viscous-plastic (VP) sea-ice model. The VP model is widely used in climate simulations to represent large-scale sea-ice dynamics. However, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Nils Margenberg , Carolin Mehlmann

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for possibly nonlinear elastic and inelastic problems, mainly focusing on a small deformation regime. The numerical scheme is based on a low-order approximation of the displacement field, as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 L. Beirão da Veiga , C. Lovadina , D. Mora

Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Arun L. Gain , Glaucio H. Paulino , Leonardo Duarte , Ivan F. M. Menezes

In this paper, we introduce the Phantom Domain Finite Element Method (PDFEM), a novel computational approach tailored for the efficient analysis of heterogeneous and composite materials. Inspired by fictitious domain methods, this method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tianlong He , Philippe Karamian-Surville , Daniel Choï

Simulation of fracturing processes in porous rocks can be divided into two main branches: (i) modeling the rock as a continuum which is enhanced with special features to account for fractures, or (ii) modeling the rock by a discrete (or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Halvor Møll Nilsen , Idar Larsen , Xavier Raynaud

Coupled multiphysics simulations for high-dimensional, large-scale problems can be prohibitively expensive due to their computational demands. This article presents a novel framework integrating a deep operator network (DeepONet) with the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Fouad M. Amin , Diab W. Abueidda , Panos Pantidis , Mostafa E. Mobasher

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire Caporale , Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa

The simulation of heat flow through heterogeneous material is important for the design of structural and electronic components. Classical analytical solutions to the heat equation PDE are not known for many such domains, even those having…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Andrew Loeb , Christopher Earls

In this paper, a peridynamics-based finite element method (Peri-FEM) is proposed for the quasi-static fracture analysis, which is of the consistent computational framework with the classical finite element method (FEM). First, the integral…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Fei Han , Zhibin Li

We present and analyze a Virtual Element Method (VEM) of arbitrary polynomial order $k\in\mathbb{N}$ for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on a surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The method combines the Surface Finite Element Method (SFEM) [Dziuk,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Massimo Frittelli , Ivonne Sgura

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