Structure Preserving and Parametric Reduced Order Modeling Strategies for System Simulation

Mohammad Abid Bazaz : 2010EEZ8667

ABSTRACT : The main aim of this thesis is the development of structure preserving and parametric reduced order modelling strategies for simulation and design of large scale systems, particularly those obtained after FE discretization of distributed parameter systems. The main contributions of the thesis are the following: A comprehensive and up-to-date literature review of model order reduction strategies with stress on parametric and structure preserving MOR methods is presented in Chapter 2. The issues most relevant to the present work are highlighted and properly contextualized. In Chapter 3 of the thesis, an ecient stopping criterion for Krylov based modeling strategies is presented. The shortcomings in conventional stopping methods are highlighted. A new index, CNRI, based upon the improvement in the numerical rank of the projection matrix with the addition of new vector from the Krylov sequence, is introduced to implement the proposed stopping criterion. Numerical results are shown for benchmark models. In Chapter 4 of the thesis, an ecient modeling and simulation strategy is presented for parametric Dierential Algebraic equation model (DAE) of an electromagnetic system. The reduction is accomplished in two steps, the rst step involving the conversion of a DAE model into an ODE model while preserving the parameter dependency. The second stage of reduction involves the conversion of a parametric ODE model into a reduced order ODE model with the parameter dependency symbolically preserved. Optimization and design cycles can thus be implemented in the reduced space at a drastically reduced computational cost. The simulation studies demonstrate the eectiveness of the whole integrated approach. In Chapter 5 of the thesis, an issue related to parametric reduction with analytically unknown dependence on parameters is taken up. A numerical measure based on subspace angles is used for quantifying the sensitivity of such models to parametric variations.The relative sensitivity information so obtained is then used for adaptive sampling of the parametric space. In Chapter 6 of the thesis, the notion of structure preserving reductions is extended to parametric second order systems with analytically unknown parametric dependencies. A strategy is developed within the broad framework of matrix interpolations for achieving such reductions. Numerical results are shown 1

for a benchmark beam model. In Chapter 7 of the thesis, the main results of the present work are summarized and directions of future work pointed out.