A High-order Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Virtual Element Method for Convection-Diffusion Problems

Abstract: A virtual element discretisation of an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method for two-dimensional convection-diffusion equations is proposed employing an isoparametric Virtual Element Method to achieve higher-order convergence rates on curved edged polygonal meshes. The proposed method is validated with numerical experiments in which optimal $H^1$ and $L^2$ convergence are observed. This method is then successfully applied to an existing moving mesh algorithm for implicit moving boundary problems in which higher-order convergence is achieved.