Beyond Wiener---Askey Expansions: Handling Arbitrary PDFs

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoliang Wan;George Em Karniadakis

  • Affiliations:
  • Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA 02912;Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA 02912

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we present a Multi-Element generalized Polynomial Chaos (ME-gPC) method to deal with stochastic inputs with arbitrary probability measures. Based on the decomposition of the random space of the stochastic inputs, we construct numerically a set of orthogonal polynomials with respect to a conditional probability density function (PDF) in each element and subsequently implement generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) locally. Numerical examples show that ME-gPC exhibits both p- and h-convergence for arbitrary probability measures