A Combined Mixed Hybrid and Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Darcy Flow and Transport

Abstract

A combined hybrid mixed and hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method is formulated for the flow and transport equations. Convergence of the method is obtained by deriving optimal a priori error bounds in the L\(^2\) norm in space. Since the velocity in the transport equation depends on the flow problem, the stabilization parameter in the HDG method is a function of the discrete velocity. In addition, a key ingredient in the convergence proof is the construction of a projection that is shown to satisfy optimal approximation bounds. Numerical examples confirm the theoretical convergence rates and show the efficiency of high order discontinuous elements.