Adaptive virtual element methods with equilibrated fluxes (Q2073957)

The authors try for the first time to connect the classical hypercircle method with the virtual element method (VEM) in order to solve a two dimensional diffusion problem. First they introduce the VEM for the primal and mixed formulations of this problem. Then, they show that mixed formulation of the VEM satisfies a discrete inf-sup condition with inf-sup constant independent of the degree of accuracy of the method and construct a stabilization of the mixed VEM with stability bounds that are explicit in terms of such degree of accuracy. A robust and efficient error estimator is also constructed. Two test problems are carried out in order to observe performance of VEM and of the equilibrated error estimator.