B-splines on sparse grids for surrogates in uncertainty quantification

Michael F. Rehme, Fabian Franzelin and Pflüger, Dirk

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2021, vol. 209, issue C

Abstract: Robust prediction of the behavior of complex physical and engineering systems relies on approximating solutions in terms of physical and stochastic domains. For higher resolution and accuracy, simulation models must increase the number of deterministic and stochastic variables and therefore further increase the dimensionality of the problem. Sparse grids are an established technique to tackle higher-dimensional problems. Their efficient tensor product structure allows the creation of accurate surrogates from few model evaluations. Classical approaches use hat functions, resulting in non-differentiable surrogates, or global basis functions, resulting in potential instabilities. Therefore, we propose using modified not-a-knot B-splines to overcome both problems. Additionally, we use established spatially adaptive refinement criteria to reduce the number of model evaluations even further. We compare our technique to other data-driven uncertainty quantification methods in a real-world benchmark for probabilistic risk assessment for carbon dioxide storage in geological formations.

Keywords: B-spline; Sparse grid; Stochastic collocation; Uncertainty quantification; Adaptivity; Carbon dioxide storage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.107430

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