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Title: The Conforming Virtual Element Method for the convection-diffusion-reaction equation with variable coeffcients.

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1159207· OSTI ID:1159207
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. University of Leicester, Leicester (United Kingdom)

This document describes the conforming formulations for virtual element approximation of the convection-reaction-diffusion equation with variable coefficients. Emphasis is given to construction of the projection operators onto polynomial spaces of appropriate order. These projections make it possible the virtual formulation to achieve any order of accuracy. We present the construction of the internal and the external formulation. The difference between the two is in the way the projection operators act on the derivatives (laplacian, gradient) of the partial differential equation. For the diffusive regime we prove the well-posedness of the external formulation and we derive an estimate of the approximation error in the H1-norm. For the convection-dominated case, the streamline diffusion stabilization (aka SUPG) is also discussed.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1159207
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-14-27710
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English