Generalized parametric solutions in Stokes flow
This work addresses the challenge of efficiently solving parametric Stokes flow problems, which is important for industrial applications like design optimization, but the extension is incremental as PGD is already established for other problems.
The paper develops a Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) formulation for Stokes flow problems, enabling fast parametric solutions for design optimization and uncertainty quantification. Numerical examples demonstrate efficacy for both Stokes and Brinkman models.
Design optimization and uncertainty quantification, among other applications of industrial interest, require fast or multiple queries of some parametric model. The Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) provides a separable solution, a \emph{computational vademecum} explicitly dependent on the parameters, efficiently computed with a greedy algorithm combined with an alternated directions scheme and compactly stored. This strategy has been successfully employed in many problems in computational mechanics. The application to problems with saddle point structure raises some difficulties requiring further attention. This article proposes a PGD formulation of the Stokes problem. Various possibilities of the separated forms of the PGD solutions are discussed and analyzed, selecting the more viable option. The efficacy of the proposed methodology is demonstrated in numerical examples for both Stokes and Brinkman models.