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Non-conforming harmonic virtual element method: $h$- and $p$-versions

Numerical Analysis 2018-07-30 v2

Abstract

We study the hh- and pp-versions of non-conforming harmonic virtual element methods (VEM) for the approximation of the Dirichlet-Laplace problem on a 2D polygonal domain, providing quasi-optimal error bounds. Harmonic VEM do not make use of internal degrees of freedom. This leads to a faster convergence, in terms of the number of degrees of freedom, as compared to standard VEM. Importantly, the technical tools used in our pp-analysis can be employed as well in the analysis of more general non-conforming finite element methods and VEM. The theoretical results are validated in a series of numerical experiments. The hphp-version of the method is numerically tested, demonstrating exponential convergence with rate given by the square root of the number of degrees of freedom.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00578,
  title  = {Non-conforming harmonic virtual element method: $h$- and $p$-versions},
  author = {Lorenzo Mascotto and Ilaria Perugia and Alexander Pichler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00578},
  year   = {2018}
}
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