Reduced-basis approximation a posteriori error estimation for parabolic partial differential equations

Modern engineering problems often require accurate, reliable, and efficient evaluation of quantities of interest, evaluation of which demands the solution of a partial differential equation. We present in this thesis a technique for the prediction of outputs of interest of parabolic partial differential equations. The essential ingredients are: (i) rapidly convergent reduced-basis approximations - Galerkin projection onto a space WN spanned by solutions of the governing partial differential equation at N selected points in parameter-time space; (ii) a posteriori error estimation - relaxations of the error-residual equation that provide rigorous and sharp bounds for the error in specific outputs of interest: the error estimates serve a priori to construct our samples and a posteriori to confirm fidelity; and (iii) offline-online computional procedures - in the offline stage the reduced- basis approximation is generated; in the online stage, given a new parameter value, we calculate the reduced-basis output and associated error bound. The operation count for the online stage depends only on N (typically small) and the parametric complexity of the problem; the method is thus ideally suited for repeated, rapid, reliable evaluation of input-output relationships in the many-query or real-time contexts. We first consider parabolic problems with affine parameter dependence and subsequently extend these results to nonaffine and certain classes of nonlinear parabolic problems.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Grepl, Martin A. (Martin Alexander), 1974-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Anthony T. Patera.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32387

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/32387