Some aspects on the computational implementation of diverse terms arising in mixed virtual element formulations

Abstract

In the present paper, we describe the computational implementation of some integral terms that arise from mixed virtual element methods (mixed-VEM) in twodimensional pseudostress-velocity formulations. The implementation presented here considers any polynomial degree k ≥ 0 in a natural way by building several local matrices of small size through the matrix multiplication and the Kronecker product. In particular, we apply the foregoing mentioned matrices to the Navier-Stokes equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions, whose mixed-VEM formulation was originally proposed and analyzed in a recent work using virtual element subspaces for H(div) and H1, simultaneously. In addition, an algorithm is proposed for the assembly of the associated global linear system for Newton’s iteration. Finally, we present a numerical example in order to illustrate the performance of the mixed-VEM scheme and confirm the expected theoretical convergence rates.