Parameter Identification in Uncertain Scalar Conservation Laws Discretized with the Discontinuous Stochastic Galerkin Scheme

Parameter Identification in Uncertain Scalar Conservation Laws Discretized with the Discontinuous Stochastic Galerkin Scheme

Year:    2020

Author:    Louisa Schlachter, Claudia Totzeck

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 28 (2020), Iss. 4 : pp. 1585–1608

Abstract

We study an identification problem which estimates the parameters of the underlying random distribution for uncertain scalar conservation laws. The hyperbolic equations are discretized with the so-called discontinuous stochastic Galerkin method, i.e., using a spatial discontinuous Galerkin scheme and a Multielement stochastic Galerkin ansatz in the random space. We assume an uncertain flux or uncertain initial conditions and that a data set of an observed solution is given. The uncertainty is assumed to be uniformly distributed on an unknown interval and we focus on identifying the correct endpoints of this interval. The first-order optimality conditions from the discontinuous stochastic Galerkin discretization are computed on the time-continuous level. Then, we solve the resulting semi-discrete forward and backward schemes with the Runge-Kutta method. To illustrate the feasibility of the approach, we apply the method to a stochastic advection and a stochastic equation of Burgers' type. The results show that the method is able to identify the distribution parameters of the random variable in the uncertain differential equation even if discontinuities are present.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2019-0221

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 28 (2020), Iss. 4 : pp. 1585–1608

Published online:    2020-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    24

Keywords:    Uncertainty quantification polynomial chaos stochastic Galerkin multielement discontinuous Galerkin parameter identification optimization.

Author Details

Louisa Schlachter

Claudia Totzeck