Hybridisable discontinuous Galerkin solution of geometrically parametrised Stokes flows

This paper proposes a novel computational framework for the solution of geometrically parametrised flow problems governed by the Stokes equation. The proposed method uses a high-order hybridisable discontinuous Galerkin formulation and the proper generalised decomposition rationale to construct an off-line solution for a given set of geometric parameters. The generalised solution contains the information for all the geometric parameters in a user-defined range and it can be used to compute sensitivities. The proposed approach circumvents many of the weaknesses of other approaches based on the proper generalised decomposition for computing generalised solutions of geometrically parametrised problems. Four numerical examples show the optimal mesh convergence properties of the proposed method and demonstrate its applicability in two and three dimensions, with particular emphasis on parametrised flows in microfluidics. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).