Basic principles of mixed Virtual Element Methods
Brezzi, F. ; Falk, Richard S. ; Donatella Marini, L.
ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique, Tome 48 (2014), p. 1227-1240 / Harvested from Numdam
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The aim of this paper is to give a simple, introductory presentation of the extension of the Virtual Element Method to the discretization of H(div)-conforming vector fields (or, more generally, of (n - 1) - Cochains). As we shall see, the methods presented here can be seen as extensions of the so-called BDM family to deal with more general element geometries (such as polygons with an almost arbitrary geometry). For the sake of simplicity, we limit ourselves to the 2-dimensional case, with the aim of making the basic philosophy clear. However, we consider an arbitrary degree of accuracy k (the Virtual Element analogue of dealing with polynomials of arbitrary order in the Finite Element Framework).

Publié le : 2014-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2013138
Classification:  65N30,  65N12,  65N15,  76R50 
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Brezzi, F.; Falk, Richard S.; Donatella Marini, L. Basic principles of mixed Virtual Element Methods. ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique, Tome 48 (2014) pp. 1227-1240. doi : 10.1051/m2an/2013138. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/M2AN_2014__48_4_1227_0/

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