A virtual element generalization on polygonal meshes of the Scott-Vogelius finite element method for the 2-D Stokes problem

12/25/2021
by   Gianmarco Manzini, et al.
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The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a Galerkin approximation method that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to polytopal meshes. In this paper, we present a conforming formulation that generalizes the Scott-Vogelius finite element method for the numerical approximation of the Stokes problem to polygonal meshes in the framework of the virtual element method. In particular, we consider a straightforward application of the virtual element approximation space for scalar elliptic problems to the vector case and approximate the pressure variable through discontinuous polynomials. We assess the effectiveness of the numerical approximation by investigating the convergence on a manufactured solution problem and a set of representative polygonal meshes. We numerically show that this formulation is convergent with optimal convergence rates except for the lowest-order case on triangular meshes, where the method coincides with the P_1-P_0 Scott-Vogelius scheme, and on square meshes, which are situations that are well-known to be unstable.

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