Structural-algebraic regularization for coupled systems of DAEs (Q291922)

Quoting from the abstract: ``In the automated modeling of multi-physics dynamical systems, frequently different subsystems are coupled together via interface or coupling conditions. This approach often results in large-scale high-index differential-algebraic equations (DAEs). Since the direct numerical simulation of these kinds of systems leads to instabilities and possibly non-convergence of numerical methods, a regularization or remodeling of such systems is required. In many simulation environments, a structural method that analyzes the system based on its sparsity pattern is used to determine the index and an index-reduced system model. However, this approach is not reliable for certain problem classes, and in particular not suited for coupled systems of DAEs.'' The authors introduce a new regularization approach for coupled dynamical systems. It combines the signature method (\(\Sigma\)-method) for the structural analysis with algebraic regularization techniques. This enables them to handle structurally singular systems and leads to a proper treatment of redundancies or inconsistencies in the system. In a section on numerical examples, four common simulation environments are applied and compared.