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MATHICSE Technical Report : Analysis and computation of the elastic wave equation with random coefficients

Motamed, Mohammad
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Nobile, Fabio  
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Tempone, Raúl
August 23, 2012

We analyze the stochastic initial-boundary value problem for the elastic wave equation with random coefficients and deterministic data. We propose a stochastic collocation method for computing statistical moments of the solution or statistics of some given quantities of interest. We study the convergence rate of the error in the stochastic collocation method. In particular, we show that, the rate of convergence depends on the regularity of the solution or the quantity of interest in the stochastic space, which is in turn related to the regularity of the deterministic data in the physical space and the type of the quantity of interest. We demonstrate that a fast rate of convergence is possible in two cases: for the elastic wave solutions with high regular data; and for some high regular quantities of interest even in the presence of low regular data. We perform numerical examples, including a simplified earthquake, which confirm the analysis and show that the collocation method is a valid alternative to the more traditionalMonte Carlo sampling method for problems with high stochastic regularity.

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working paper
DOI
10.5075/epfl-MATHICSE-263087
Author(s)
Motamed, Mohammad
Nobile, Fabio  
Tempone, Raúl
Corporate authors
MATHICSE-Group
Date Issued

2012-08-23

Publisher

MATHICSE

Subjects

uncertainty quantification

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stochastic partial differential equations

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elastic

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wave equation

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regularity

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collocation method

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error analysis

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MATHICSE Technical Report Nr. 32.2012 August 2012

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