The Virtual Element Method and its Applications: 31 (SEMA SIMAI Springer Series, 31) - Tapa dura

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​Paola F. Antonietti is a full professor in numerical analysis at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her research interests concern the development and analysis of numerical methods for partial differential equations with applications to computational geosciences. She is particularly interested in nonstandard high-order finite element methods, including virtual elements and discontinuous Galerkin methods on polygonal and polyhedral grids.

Lourenço Beirão da Veiga is a full professor in numerical analysis at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. His research mainly concerns the development and theoretical analysis of numerical methods for partial differential equations, with a particular focus on solid and fluid mechanics. His more recent interests are on novel and nonstandard methodologies such as isogeometric analysis, mimetic finite differences, and virtual element methods.

Gianmarco Manzini is a research director of the Consiglio Nazionaledelle Ricerche in Pavia, Italy and a senior scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. His research interests mainly concern the design and implementation of numerical methods for partial differential equations, with a special focus on numerical methods for polygonal and polyhedral meshes such as finite volumes, mimetic finite differences, and virtual element methods.

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The virtual element method (VEM) is a recent Galerkin finite element method suited to the numerical discretization of partial differential equations on unstructured meshes with polygonal and polyhedral elements. The VEM was proposed to the scientific community in 2013, but despite its youthness, it has now reached a high maturity level. Indeed, a huge amount of work in this decade has been carried out to develop, analyse and apply the method and its many variants to a wide range of applications. The purpose of this book is to present the current state of the art of the VEM by collecting contributions from many of the most active researchers in this field and covering a broad range of topics: from the mathematical foundation to real life computational applications.