Abstract

The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is well established as an accurate and powerful numerical technique in continuum mechanics. Due to its intrinsic feature of reducing the problem's dimensionality, which allows reducing the modelling effort without compromising on the solution accuracy, [...]

Abstract

The virtual element method (VEM), is a stabilized Galerkin scheme deriving from mimetic finite differences, which allows for very general polygonal meshes, and does not require the explicit knowledge of the shape functions within the problem domain. In the VEM, the discrete counterpart [...]