Reduction of Large-Scale Groundwater Flow Models Via the Galerkin Projection

conference paper
In this paper we describe a reduced model structure that describes the hydraulic head h for ground water flow models as a linear combination of a set of spatial patterns P with time-varying coefficients r. We discuss a data-driven technique to extract patterns P (EOFs) that span a subspace of model results that captures most of the relevant information of the original model. We make use of the patterns to obtain a reduced dynamic model for the time-varying coeffecients via a Galerkin Projection. This technique substitutes h within the PDE for groundwater now by the reduced model structure PTr. We acquire a dynamic reduced model for dr/dt by multiplying the outcome with PT. The vector dimension of r is often small compared to the original dimension of h, and a model which operates within a lower dimension requires less computational time. The method has heen evaluated for a realistic case, whereby we achieved a maximal reduction in computational time of ≈ 80. The reduced model has a promising prospect as its efficiency increases whenever the number of grid cells increases and the parameterization of the original model grows in complexity.
TNO Identifier
953687
ISSN
14746670
Publisher
IFAC Secretariat
Source title
IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), 13th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID 2003, 27 August 2003 through 29 August 2003
Pages
1381-1386
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