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Reduced basis solvers for unfitted methods on parameterized domains

Numerical Analysis 2025-11-24 v3 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we present a unified framework for reduced basis approximations of parametrized partial differential equations defined on parameter-dependent domains. Our approach combines unfitted finite element methods with both classical and tensor-based reduced basis techniques -- particularly the tensor-train reduced basis method -- to enable efficient and accurate model reduction on general geometries. To address the challenge of reconciling geometric variability with fixed-dimensional snapshot representations, we adopt a deformation-based strategy that maps a reference configuration to each parameterized domain. Furthermore, we introduce a localization procedure to construct dictionaries of reduced subspaces and hyper-reduction approximations, which are obtained via matrix discrete empirical interpolation in our work. We extend the proposed framework to saddle-point problems by adapting the supremizer enrichment strategy to unfitted methods and deformed configurations, demonstrating that the supremizer operator can be defined on the reference configuration without loss of stability. Numerical experiments on two- and three-dimensional problems -- including Poisson, linear elasticity, incompressible Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations -- demonstrate the flexibility, accuracy and efficiency of the proposed methodology.

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@article{arxiv.2508.15320,
  title  = {Reduced basis solvers for unfitted methods on parameterized domains},
  author = {Nicholas Mueller and Santiago Badia and Yiran Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15320},
  year   = {2025}
}

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24 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables

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