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Estimating the uncertainty in underresolved nonlinear dynamics

Numerical Analysis 2013-06-14 v1

Abstract

The Mori-Zwanzig formalism of statistical mechanics is used to estimate the uncertainty caused by underresolution in the solution of a nonlinear dynamical system. A general approach is outlined and applied to a simple example. The noise term that describes the uncertainty turns out to be neither Markovian nor Gaussian. It is argued that this is the general situation.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2981,
  title  = {Estimating the uncertainty in underresolved nonlinear dynamics},
  author = {Alexandre J. Chorin and Ole H. Hald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2981},
  year   = {2013}
}

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18 pages, 5 figures

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