L. G. Rebholz

2papers

2 Papers

NAMay 30, 2018
Physically-Constrained Data-Driven, Filtered Reduced Order Modeling of Fluid Flows

M. Mohebujjaman, L. G. Rebholz, T. Iliescu

In our earlier work, we proposed a data-driven filtered reduced order model (DDF-ROM) framework for the numerical simulation of fluid flows, which can be formally written as \begin{equation*} \boxed{ \text{ DDF-ROM = Galerkin-ROM + Correction } } \end{equation*} The new DDF-ROM was constructed by using ROM spatial filtering and data-driven ROM closure modeling (for the Correction term) and was successfully tested in the numerical simulation of a 2D channel flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds numbers $Re=100, Re=500$ and $Re=1000$. In this paper, we propose a {\it physically-constrained} DDF-ROM (CDDF-ROM), which aims at improving the physical accuracy of the DDF-ROM. The new physical constraints require that the CDDF-ROM operators satisfy the same type of physical laws (i.e., the nonlinear operator should conserve energy and the ROM closure term should be dissipative) as those satisfied by the fluid flow equations. To implement these physical constraints, in the data-driven modeling step of the DDF-ROM, we replace the unconstrained least squares problem with a constrained least squares problem. We perform a numerical investigation of the new CDDF-ROM and standard DDF-ROM for a 2D channel flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds numbers $Re=100, Re=500$ and $Re=1000$. To this end, we consider a reproductive regime as well as a predictive (i.e., cross-validation) regime in which we use as little as $50\%$ of the original training data. The numerical investigation clearly shows that the new CDDF-ROM is significantly more accurate than the DDF-ROM in both regimes.

NAFeb 20, 2017
Calibrated Filtered Reduced Order Modeling

X. Xie, M. Mohebujjaman, L. G. Rebholz et al.

We propose a calibrated filtered reduced order model (CF-ROM) framework for the numerical simulation of general nonlinear PDEs that are amenable to reduced order modeling. The novel CF-ROM framework consists of two steps: (i) In the first step, we use explicit ROM spatial filtering of the nonlinear PDE to construct a filtered ROM. This filtered ROM is low-dimensional, but is not closed (because of the nonlinearity in the given PDE). (ii) In the second step, we use a calibration procedure to close the filtered ROM, i.e., to model the interaction between the resolved and unresolved modes. To this end, we use a linear or quadratic ansatz to model this interaction and close the filtered ROM. To find the new coefficients in the closed filtered ROM, we solve an optimization problem that minimizes the difference between the full order model data and our ansatz. Although we use a fluid dynamics setting to illustrate how to construct and use the CF-ROM framework, we emphasize that it is built on general ideas of spatial filtering and optimization and is independent of (restrictive) phenomenological arguments. Thus, the CF-ROM framework can be applied to a wide variety of PDEs.