Inconsistency Removal of Reduced Bases in Parametric Model Order Reduction by Matrix Interpolation Using Adaptive Sampling and Clustering

ABSTRACT Parametric model order reduction by matrix interpolation allows for efficient prediction of the behavior of dynamic systems without requiring knowledge about the underlying parametric dependency. Within this approach, reduced models are first sampled and then made consistent with each other by transforming the underlying reduced bases. Finally, the transformed reduced operators can be interpolated to predict reduced models for queried parameter points. However, the accuracy of the predicted reduced model strongly depends on the similarity of the sampled reduced bases. If the local reduced bases change significantly over the parameter space, inconsistencies are introduced in the training data for the matrix interpolation. These strong changes in the reduced bases can occur due to the model order reduction method used, a change of the system's dynamics with a change of the parameters, and mode switching and truncation. In this paper, individual approaches for removing these inconsistencies are extended and combined into one general framework to simultaneously treat multiple sources of inconsistency. For that, modal truncation is used for the reduction, an adaptive sampling of the parameter space is performed, and eventually, the parameter space is partitioned into regions in which all local reduced bases are consistent with those of their neighboring samples within the same region. The proposed framework is applied to a cantilever Timoshenko beam and the Kelvin cell for one‐ to three‐dimensional parameter spaces. Compared to the original version of parametric model order reduction by matrix interpolation and an existing method for inconsistency removal, the proposed framework leads to parametric reduced models with significantly smaller errors.