Adaptive Stroud Stochastic Collocation Method for Flow in Random Porous Media via Karhunen-Loève Expansio
Year: 2008
Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 4 (2008), Iss. 1 : pp. 102–123
Abstract
In this paper we develop a Stochastic Collocation Method (SCM) for flow in randomly heterogeneous porous media. At first, the Karhunen-Loève expansion is taken to decompose the log transformed hydraulic conductivity field, which leads to a stochastic PDE that only depends on a finite number of i.i.d. Gaussian random variables. Based on the eigenvalue decay property and a rough error estimate of Stroud cubature in SCM, we propose to subdivide the leading dimensions in the integration space for random variables to increase the accuracy. We refer to this approach as adaptive Stroud SCM. One- and two-dimensional steady-state single phase flow examples are simulated with the new method, and comparisons are made with other stochastic methods, namely, the Monte Carlo method, the tensor product SCM, and the quasi-Monte Carlo SCM. The results indicate that the adaptive Stroud SCM is more efficient and the statistical moments of the hydraulic head can be more accurately estimated.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/2008-CiCP-10198
Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 4 (2008), Iss. 1 : pp. 102–123
Published online: 2008-01
AMS Subject Headings: Global Science Press
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 22