An Adaptive ANOVA-Based Data-Driven Stochastic Method for Elliptic PDE with Random Coefficients
Abstract
Generalized polynomial chaos (gPC) methods have been applied to various stochastic problems in many physical and engineering fields. However realistic representation of stochastic inputs associated with various sources of uncertainty often leads to high dimensional representations that are computationally prohibitive. Additionally in the classic gPC methods the gPC bases are determined based on the probabilistic distribution of stochastic inputs. However, the stochastic outputs may not share the same probabilistic distribution as the stochastic inputs. Hence, the gPC bases may not be the optimal bases for such systems, which causes the slow convergence of gPC methods for such stochastic problems. Here we present a general framework that integrates the adaptive ANOVA decomposition technique and the data-driven stochastic method to alleviate both of the two limitations. To handle high-dimensional stochastic problems we investigate the use of adaptive ANOVA decomposition in the stochastic space as an effective dimension-reduction technique for high-dimensional stochastic problems. Three different ANOVA adaptive criteria are discussed. To improve the slow convergence of gPC methods, we use the data-driven stochastic method (DDSM) which was developed by Cheng-Hou-Yan in [5]. This method has an offline computation and an online computation. In the offline computation optimal gPC bases are obtained by Karhunen-Loeve (K-L) expansion of the covariance matrix of stochastic outputs obtained by ANOVA-based sparse-grid PCM. In the online computation, a Galerkin-projection based gPC method with the optimal bases developed in the offline computation is employed, which greatly speeds up the convergence. Numerical examples are presented for one- , two-dimensional elliptic PDE with random coefficients, and a two-dimensional Helmhotz equation in random media (Horn problem) to show the accuracy and efficiency of the developed adaptive ANOVA-based DDSM method.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 11, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA560090
Entities
People
- Guang Lin
- Pengchong Yan
- Thomas Y. Hou
- Xin Hu
Organizations
- California Institute of Technology