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20162026
most citedSUIHTER: A new mathematical model for COVID-19. Application to the analysis of the second epidemic outbreak in Italy

34 citations · 42 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

math.NA2026

Polytopal Discontinuous Galerkin Discretizations of Coupled Non-Newtonian Stokes-Darcy Systems

Paola F. Antonietti, Michele Botti, Nicola Parolini +2

We propose and analyze a polytopal discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical approximation of a coupled non-Newtonian Stokes-Darcy system modeling the interaction between a n…

math.NA2026

A Virtual Element Method for elliptic problems on trimmed background meshes

L. Beirão da Veiga, C. Canuto, R. H. Nochetto +2

We consider a two-dimensional piecewise domain that cuts through a quasi-uniform fixed polygonal background mesh, for instance made of quadrilaterals. A simple procedure base…

physics.flu-dyn2026

A Volume of Fluid Immersed Boundary Method for Industrial Polymer Mixing

Emilia Capuano, Daniele Cerroni, Holger Marschall +3

This work develops advanced numerical methods for free-surface simulations of polymer mixing processes, integrating a Volume of Fluid (VOF) interface-capturing approach with a non-…

math.NA2026

A Multilevel Monte Carlo Virtual Element Method for Uncertainty Quantification of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

Paola F. Antonietti, Francesca Bonizzoni, Ilaria Perugia +1

We introduce a Monte Carlo Virtual Element estimator based on Virtual Element discretizations for stochastic elliptic partial differential equations with random diffusion coefficie…

math.NA2026

Virtual Element methods for non-Newtonian shear-thickening fluid flow problems

Paola F. Antonietti, Lourenço Beirão da Veiga, Michele Botti +3

In this work, we present a comprehensive theoretical analysis for Virtual Element discretizations of incompressible non-Newtonian flows governed by the Carreau-Yasuda constitutive…

math.NA2025

Deep Learning Accelerated Algebraic Multigrid Methods for Polytopal Discretizations of Second-Order Differential Problems

Paola F. Antonietti, Matteo Caldana, Lorenzo Gentile +1

Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods are state-of-the-art algebraic solvers for partial differential equations. Still, their efficiency depends heavily on the choice of suitable param…

math.NA2025

Learning cardiac activation and repolarization times with operator learning

Edoardo Centofanti, Giovanni Ziarelli, Nicola Parolini +3

Solving partial or ordinary differential equation models in cardiac electrophysiology is a computationally demanding task, particularly when high-resolution meshes are required to…

q-bio.QM2024

A model learning framework for inferring the dynamics of transmission rate depending on exogenous variables for epidemic forecasts

Giovanni Ziarelli, Stefano Pagani, Nicola Parolini +2

In this work, we aim to formalize a novel scientific machine learning framework to reconstruct the hidden dynamics of the transmission rate, whose inaccurate extrapolation can sign…

math.NA2024

Design of a checkerboard counterflow heat exchanger for industrial applications

N. Parolini, V. Covello, A. della Rocca +1

This work is devoted to the design of a checkerboard air-gas heat exchanger suitable for industrial applications. The design of the heat exchanger is optimized in order to obtain t…

math.NA2024

An Immersed Boundary Method for Polymeric Continuous Mixing

G. Negrini, N. Parolini, M. Verani

We introduce a new implementation of the Immersed Boundary method in the finite-volume library OpenFOAM. The implementation is tailored to the simulation of temperature-dependent n…

math.NA2024

A posteriori error analysis for a coupled Stokes-poroelastic system with multiple compartments

Ivan Fumagalli, Nicola Parolini, Marco Verani

The discretization of fluid-poromechanics systems is typically highly demanding in terms of computational effort. This is particularly true for models of multiphysics flows in the…

math.NA2024

Learning epidemic trajectories through Kernel Operator Learning: from modelling to optimal control

Giovanni Ziarelli, Nicola Parolini, Marco Verani

Since infectious pathogens start spreading into a susceptible population, mathematical models can provide policy makers with reliable forecasts and scenario analyses, which can be…

math.NA2024

A Virtual Element method for non-Newtonian fluid flows

P. F. Antonietti, L. Beirao da Veiga, M. Botti +2

In this paper, we design and analyze a Virtual Element discretization for the steady motion of non-Newtonian, incompressible fluids. A specific stabilization, tailored to mimic the…

math.NA2024

Structure-preserving neural networks in data-driven rheological models

Nicola Parolini, Andrea Poiatti, Julian Vene' +1

In this paper we address the importance and the impact of employing structure preserving neural networks as surrogate of the analytical physics-based models typically employed to d…

cs.CE2023

Level set-fitted polytopal meshes with application to structural topology optimization

Nicola Ferro, Stefano Micheletti, Nicola Parolini +3

We propose a method to modify a polygonal mesh in order to fit the zero-isoline of a level set function by extending a standard body-fitted strategy to a tessellation with arbitrar…

math.NA2023★ 2 cited

The Rhie-Chow stabilized Box Method for the Stokes problem

G. Negrini, N. Parolini, M. Verani

The Finite Volume method (FVM) is widely adopted in many different applications because of its built-in conservation properties, its ability to deal with arbitrary mesh and its com…

math.NA2023★ 1 cited

Adaptive VEM for variable data: convergence and optimality

L. Beirão da Veiga, C. Canuto, R. H. Nochetto +2

We design an adaptive virtual element method (AVEM) of lowest order over triangular meshes with hanging nodes in 2d, which are treated as polygons. AVEM hinges on the stabilization…

math.NA2021

Adaptive VEM: Stabilization-Free A Posteriori Error Analysis and Contraction Property

L. Beirao da Veiga, C. Canuto, R. H. Nochetto +2

In the present paper we initiate the challenging task of building a mathematically sound theory for Adaptive Virtual Element Methods (AVEMs). Among the realm of polygonal meshes, w…

q-bio.PE2021★ 34 cited

SUIHTER: A new mathematical model for COVID-19. Application to the analysis of the second epidemic outbreak in Italy

Nicola Parolini, Luca Dede', Paola F. Antonietti +6

The COVID-19 epidemic is the last of a long list of pandemics that have affected humankind in the last century. In this paper, we propose a novel mathematical epidemiological model…

math.NA2017

An optimal adaptive Fictitious Domain Method

Stefano Berrone, Andrea Bonito, Rob Stevenson +1

We consider a Fictitious Domain formulation of an elliptic partial differential equation and approximate the resulting saddle-point system using an inexact preconditioned Uzawa ite…

math.NA2016★ 2 cited

On the Virtual Element Method for Topology Optimization on polygonal meshes: a numerical study

Paola F. Antonietti, Matteo Bruggi, Simone Scacchi +1

It is well known that the solution of topology optimization problems may be affected both by the geometric properties of the computational mesh, which can steer the minimization pr…

math.NA2016★ 3 cited

The fully nonconforming virtual element method for biharmonic problems

P. F. Antonietti, G. Manzini, M. Verani

In this paper we address the numerical approximation of linear fourth-order elliptic problems on polygonal meshes. In particular, we present a novel nonconforming virtual element d…