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We report on a numerical study of the shear flow of a simple two-dimensional model of a granular material under controlled normal stress between two parallel smooth, frictional walls, moving with opposite velocities $\pm$V . Discrete…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-15 Zahra Shojaaee , Jean-Noël Roux , François Chevoir , Wolf Dietrich

This paper introduces a novel eXtended virtual element method, an extension of the conforming virtual element method. The XVEM is formulated by incorporating appropriate enrichment functions in the local spaces. The method is designed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Jerome Droniou , Gianmarco Manzini , Liam Yemm

Accurately describing liquids and their mixtures beyond equilibrium remains a significant challenge in modern chemical physics and physical chemistry, especially regarding the calculation of transport properties in liquid-phase systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-19 Yury A. Budkov , Nikolai N. Kalikin , Petr E. Brandyshev

In this paper, we derive an extension of the Reynolds law for quasi-Newtonian fluid flows through a thin domain with thickness $0<\varepsilon\ll 1$ with viscosity obeying the Carreau law without high-rate viscosity, by applying asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 María Anguiano , Francisco J. Suárez-Grau

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

This work presents a new conforming stabilized virtual element method for the generalized Boussinesq equation with temperature-dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity. A gradient-based local projection stabilization method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Sudheer Mishra , Sundararajan Natarajan , Natarajan E

We propose a semismooth Newton method for non-Newtonian models of incompressible flow where the constitutive relation between the shear stress and the symmetric velocity gradient is given implicitly; this class of constitutive relations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-18 P. A. Gazca-Orozco

A low-order finite element method is constructed and analysed for an incompressible non-Newtonian flow problem with power-law rheology. The method is based on a continuous piecewise linear approximation of the velocity field and piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Endre Suli

We develop a lowest-order nonconforming virtual element method for planar linear elasticity, which can be viewed as an extension of the idea in Falk (1991) to the virtual element method (VEM), with the family of polygonal meshes satisfying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Yue Yu

In this paper we proposed a two-level finite element discretization of the nonlinear stationary quasi-geostrophic equations, which model the wind driven large scale ocean circulation. Optimal error estimates for the two-level finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Erich L Foster , Traian Iliescu , David Wells

In this paper, we investigate a Smagorinsky model in a virtual element framework to simulate convection-dominated Navier-Stokes equations. We conduct a two-dimensional numerical investigation to assess the performance of the general order…

This paper devises a novel lowest-order conforming virtual element method (VEM) for planar linear elasticity with the pure displacement/traction boundary condition. The main trick is to view a generic polygon $K$ as a new one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Jianguo Huang , Sen Lin , Yue Yu

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 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 Virtual Element Method for diffusion-convection-reaction problems is considered. In order to design a quasi-robust scheme also in the convection-dominated regime, a Continuous Interior Penalty approach is employed. Due to the presence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 L. Beirao da Veiga , C. Lovadina , M. Trezzi

We present recent finite element numerical results on a model convection-diffusion problem in the singular perturbed case when the convection term dominates the problem. We compare the standard Galerkin discretization using the linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Constantin Bacuta , Daniel Hayes , Tyler O'Grady

We provide numerical simulations of an incompressible pressure-thickening and shear-thinning lubricant flowing in a plane slider bearing. We study the influence of several parameters, namely the ratio of the characteristic lengths…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-15 M. Lanzendörfer , J. Málek , K. R. Rajagopal

In this paper we prove optimal error estimates for {solutions with natural regularity} of the equations describing the unsteady motion of incompressible shear-thinning fluids. We consider a full space-time semi-implicit scheme for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Luigi C. Berselli , Michael Růžička

In this paper we analyze a virtual element method for the two dimensional elasticity spectral problem allowing small edges. Under this approach, and with the aid of the theory of compact operators, we prove convergence of the proposed VEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Danilo Amigo , Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

We consider a system of nonlinear partial differential equations modelling the steady motion of an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid, which is chemically reacting. The governing system consists of a steady convection-diffusion equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Seungchan Ko , Petra Pustejovská , Endre Süli