MATHICSE Technical Report : Convergence of quasi-optimal stochastic Galerkin methods for a class of PDES with random coefficients
In this work we consider quasi-optimal versions of the Stochastic Galerkin Method for solving linear elliptic PDEs with stochastic coeffcients. In particular, we consider the case of a finite number N of random inputs and an analytic dependence of the solution of the PDE with respect to the parameters in a polydisc of the complex plane CN. We show that a quasi-optimal approximation is given by a Galerkin projection on a weighted (anisotropic) total degree space and prove a (sub)exponential convergence rate. As a specific application we consider a thermal conduction problem with non-overlapping inclusions of random conductivity. Numerical results show the sharpness of our estimates.
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