A New Projection-Based Stabilized Virtual Element Approximation for Three-Field Poroelasticity

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a fully discrete virtual element scheme based on the local pressure projection stabilization for a three-field poroelasticity problem with a storage coefficient $c_0 ≥ 0.$ We not only provide the well-posedness of the proposed scheme by proving a weaker form of the discrete inf-sup condition, but also show optimal error estimates for all unknowns, whose generic constants are independent of the Lamé coefficient $λ.$ Moreover, our proposed scheme avoids pressure oscillation and applies to general polygonal elements, including hanging-node elements. Finally, we numerically validate the good performance of our virtual element scheme.