In this article, we investigate the behavior of the condition number of the stiffness matrix resulting from the approximation of a 2D Poisson problem by means of the virtual element method. It turns out that ill-conditioning appears when considering high-order methods or in presence of “bad-shaped” (for instance nonuniformly star-shaped, with small edges…) sequences of polygons. We show that in order to improve such condition number one can modify the definition of the internal moments by choosing proper polynomial functions that are not the standard monomials. We also give numerical evidence that at least for a 2D problem, standard choices for the stabilization give similar results in terms of condition number.

Mascotto, L. (2018). Ill-conditioning in the virtual element method: Stabilizations and bases. NUMERICAL METHODS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, 34(4), 1258-1281 [10.1002/num.22257].

Ill-conditioning in the virtual element method: Stabilizations and bases

Mascotto L.
2018

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the behavior of the condition number of the stiffness matrix resulting from the approximation of a 2D Poisson problem by means of the virtual element method. It turns out that ill-conditioning appears when considering high-order methods or in presence of “bad-shaped” (for instance nonuniformly star-shaped, with small edges…) sequences of polygons. We show that in order to improve such condition number one can modify the definition of the internal moments by choosing proper polynomial functions that are not the standard monomials. We also give numerical evidence that at least for a 2D problem, standard choices for the stabilization give similar results in terms of condition number.
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hp Galerkin methods; Ill-conditioning; virtual element methods
English
2018
34
4
1258
1281
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Mascotto, L. (2018). Ill-conditioning in the virtual element method: Stabilizations and bases. NUMERICAL METHODS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, 34(4), 1258-1281 [10.1002/num.22257].
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