The role of mesh quality and mesh quality indicators in the Virtual Element Method

02/08/2021
by   Tommaso Sorgente, et al.
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Since its introduction, the Virtual Element Method (VEM) was shown to be able to deal with a large variety of polygons, while achieving good convergence rates. The regularity assumptions proposed in the VEM literature to guarantee the convergence on a theoretical basis are therefore quite general. They have been deduced in analogy to the similar conditions developed in the Finite Element Methods (FEMs) analysis. In this work, we experimentally show that the VEM still converges with almost optimal rates and low errors in the L2 and H1 norms even if we significantly break the regularity assumptions that are used in the literature. These results suggest that the regularity assumptions proposed so far might be overestimated. We also exhibit examples on which the VEM sub-optimally converges or diverges. Finally, we introduce a mesh quality indicator that experimentally correlates the entity of the violation of the regularity assumptions and the performance of the VEM solution, thus predicting if a dataset is potentially critical for VEM.

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