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In this paper, we propose the surface virtual element method (SVEM) combining with the local tangential lifting technique (LTL) to solve the diffusion–reaction (DR) equation on the non-flat Voronoi discretized surface embedded in \({\mathbb {R}}^3\). It has been a challenge on how to design the efficient numerical method to treat the non-flat discretized surface in comparison with the easy construction of flat discretized surface. Limited to the linear virtual element space, we derive the computable virtual element form of the non-flat Voronoi discretized surface by lifting the Voronoi element into the tangential plane. We demonstrate that this method developed here presents a good numerical simulation on a wide variety of polygonal discretized surfaces. Finally, numerical experiments are carried out to show the efficiency of the proposed method.
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This work is in part supported by the Excellent Doctor Innovation Program of Xinjiang University (No. XJUBSCX-2017006), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2021M700476) and the NSF of China (Nos. 11671345, 11362021, 61962056).
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Li, J., Feng, X. & He, Y. Local tangential lifting virtual element method for the diffusion–reaction equation on the non-flat Voronoi discretized surface. Engineering with Computers 38, 5297–5307 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-021-01595-1
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Keywords
- Surface virtual element method
- Local tangential lifting method
- Non-flat Voronoi discretized surface
- Diffusion–reaction equation
- Local coordinate system