ARBY4 - Reduced Basis Fluid Flow Code

ARBY4 is version 4 of ARBY, a reduced basis code for fluid flow.

The reduced basis idea is related to the finite element method. In the finite element method, a completely arbitrary basis is set up. The reduced basis method seeks, instead, to use a much smaller set of basis functions which somehow represent the most typical behaviors of the solution.

Such a basis set might be determined by computing lots of solution vectors, or from theoretical considerations. It can also be determined by taking the state equations, repeatedly differentiating them with respect to a parameter, and solving the resulting systems. This then allows a sort of Taylor expansion of the solution with the parameter acting as the independent variable.

In a true Taylor expansion, the coefficients of the basis vectors are strictly determined by the size of the increment in the independent variable. But in this approach, it is assumed that although the Taylor coefficients may quickly become inaccurate, the corresponding Taylor basis vectors will still be useful for representing the solution. It remains, then, to determine the now unknown coefficients.

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Last revised on 21 February 2002.