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Mapping of coherent structures in parameterized flows by learning optimal transportation with Gaussian models

Numerical Analysis 2022-10-19 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We present a general (i.e., independent of the underlying model) interpolation technique based on optimal transportation of Gaussian models for parametric advection-dominated problems. The approach relies on a scalar testing function to identify the coherent structure we wish to track; a maximum likelihood estimator to identify a Gaussian model of the coherent structure; and a nonlinear interpolation strategy that relies on optimal transportation maps between Gaussian distributions. We show that well-known self-similar solutions can be recast in the frame of optimal transportation by appropriate rescaling; we further present several numerical examples to motivate our proposal and to assess strengths and limitations; finally, we discuss an extension to deal with more complex problems.

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@article{arxiv.2109.08769,
  title  = {Mapping of coherent structures in parameterized flows by learning optimal transportation with Gaussian models},
  author = {Angelo Iollo and Tommaso Taddei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08769},
  year   = {2022}
}
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