Model Reduction for Compressible Cavity Simulations Towards Uncertainty Quantification of Structural Loading
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
This report summarizes FY16 progress towards enabling uncertainty quantification for compressible cavity simulations using model order reduction (MOR). The targeted application is the quantification of the captive-carry environment for the design and qualification of nuclear weapons systems. To accurately simulate this scenario, Large Eddy Simulations (LES) require very fine meshes and long run times, which lead to week-long runs even on parallel state-of-the-art super- computers. MOR can reduce substantially the CPU-time requirement for these simulations. We describe two approaches for model order reduction for nonlinear systems, which can yield significant speed-ups when combined with hyper-reduction: the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)/Galerkin approach and the POD/Least-Squares Petrov Galerkin (LSPG) approach. The implementation of these methods within the in-house compressible flow solver SPARC is discussed. Next, a method for stabilizing and enhancing low-dimensional reduced bases that was developed as a part of this project is detailed. This approach is based on a premise termed "minimal subspace rotation", and has the advantage of yielding ROMs that are more stable and accurate for long-time compressible cavity simulations. Numerical results for some laminar cavity problems aimed at gauging the viability of the proposed model reduction methodologies are presented and discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 1562432
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2016-9463; 647650
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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