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Title: Eigenvalue analysis of uncertain ODE systems.

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1021663

The Polynomial chaos expansion provides a means of representing any L2 random variable as a sum of polynomials that are orthogonal with respect to a chosen measure. Examples include the Hermite polynomials with Gaussian measure on the real line and the Legendre polynomials with uniform measure on an interval. Polynomial chaos can be used to reformulate an uncertain ODE system, using Galerkin projection, as a new, higher-dimensional, deterministic ODE system which describes the evolution of each mode of the polynomial chaos expansion. It is of interest to explore the eigenstructure of the original and reformulated ODE systems by studying the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of their Jacobians. In this talk, we study the distribution of the eigenvalues of the two Jacobians. We outline in general the location of the eigenvalues of the new system with respect to those of the original system, and examine the effect of expansion order on this distribution.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
1021663
Report Number(s):
SAND2010-4736C; TRN: US201117%%257
Resource Relation:
Conference: Proposed for presentation at the SIAM Annual Meeting held July 14-16, 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English