Low-Dimensional Approximation for Control of Spatio-Temporal Processes Using Principal Interaction Patterns

Abstract

Although the first-principal models of the spatio-temporal processes can accurately predict nonlinear and distributed dynamical behaviors, their infinite-dimensional nature does not allow their directly use. In this note, low-dimensional approximations for control of spatio-temporal processes using principal interaction patterns are constructed. Advanced model reduction approach based on spatial basis function expansion together with Galerkin method is used to obtain the low-dimensional approximation. Spatial structure called principal interaction patterns are extracted from the system according to a variational principle and used as basis functions in a Galerkin approximation. The simulations of the burgers equations has illustrated that low-dimensional approximation based on principal interaction patterns for spatio-temporal processes has smaller errors than more conventional approaches using Fourier modes or Empirical Eigenfunctions as basis functions.