Optimization Governed by Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

dc.contributor.authorKouri, Drew
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-19T17:46:06Z
dc.date.available2018-06-19T17:46:06Z
dc.date.issued2010-06
dc.date.noteJune 2010
dc.descriptionThis work was also published as a Rice University thesis/dissertation: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/62002
dc.description.abstractThis thesis provides a rigorous framework for the solution of stochastic elliptic partial differential equation (SPDE) constrained optimization problems. In modeling physical processes with differential equations, much of the input data is uncertain (e.g. measurement errors in the diffusivity coefficients). When uncertainty is present, the governing equations become a family of equations indexed by a stochastic variable. Since solutions of these SPDEs enter the objective function, the objective function usually involves statistical moments. These optimization problems governed by SPDEs are posed as a particular class of optimization problems in Banach spaces. This thesis discusses Monte Carlo, stochastic Galerkin, and stochastic collocation methods for the numerical solution of SPDEs and identifies the stochastic collocation method as particularly useful for the optimization of SPDEs. This thesis extends the stochastic collocation method to the optimization context and explores the decoupling nature of this method for gradient and Hessian computations.
dc.format.extent141 pp
dc.identifier.citationKouri, Drew. "Optimization Governed by Stochastic Partial Differential Equations." (2010) <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/102162">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/102162</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalTR10-20
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/102162
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleOptimization Governed by Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
dc.typeTechnical report
dc.type.dcmiText
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