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Title: Annotations on the virtual element method for second-order elliptic problems

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1338710· OSTI ID:1338710
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

This document contains working annotations on the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for the approximate solution of diffusion problems with variable coefficients. To read this document you are assumed to have familiarity with concepts from the numerical discretization of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) and, in particular, the Finite Element Method (FEM). This document is not an introduction to the FEM, for which many textbooks (also free on the internet) are available. Eventually, this document is intended to evolve into a tutorial introduction to the VEM (but this is really a long-term goal).

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1338710
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-16-29660
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English