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Localized Model Reduction for Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations: Localized Training, Partition of Unity, and Adaptive Enrichment
We propose a component-based (CB) parametric model order reduction (pMOR) formulation for parameterized nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. CB-pMOR is designed to deal with large-scale problems for which full-order solves are not affordable in a reasonable time frame or parameters' variations induce topology changes that prevent the application of monolithic pMOR techniques. We rely on the partition-of-unity method to devise global approximation spaces from local reduced spaces, and on Galerkin projection to compute the global state estimate. We propose a randomized data compression algorithm based on oversampling for the construction of the components' reduced spaces: the approach exploits random boundary conditions of controlled smoothness on the oversampling boundary. We further propose an adaptive residual-based enrichment algorithm that exploits global reduced-order solves on representative systems to update the local reduced spaces. We prove exponential convergence of the enrichment procedure for linear coercive problems; we further present numerical results for a two-dimensional nonlinear diffusion problem to illustrate the many features of our methodology and demonstrate its effectiveness.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2145364
- PAR ID:
- 10471998
- Publisher / Repository:
- SIAM
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 1064-8275
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- A1300 to A1331
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- parameterized PDEs, model order reduction, domain decomposition
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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