Minimal curvature trajectories: Riemannian geometry concepts for slow manifold computation in chemical kinetics

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2010.05.008zbMATH Open1197.65070arXiv0910.3527OpenAlexW2086208131WikidataQ115350136 ScholiaQ115350136MaRDI QIDQ995266FDOQ995266


Authors: Dirk Lebiedz, Volkmar Reinhardt, Jochen Siehr Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 September 2010

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In dissipative ordinary differential equation systems different time scales cause anisotropic phase volume contraction along solution trajectories. Model reduction methods exploit this for simplifying chemical kinetics via a time scale separation into fast and slow modes. The aim is to approximate the system dynamics with a dimension-reduced model after eliminating the fast modes by enslaving them to the slow ones via computation of a slow attracting manifold. We present a novel method for computing approximations of such manifolds using trajectory-based optimization. We discuss Riemannian geometry concepts as a basis for suitable optimization criteria characterizing trajectories near slow attracting manifolds and thus provide insight into fundamental geometric properties of multiple time scale chemical kinetics. The optimization criteria correspond to a suitable mathematical formulation of "minimal relaxation" of chemical forces along reaction trajectories under given constraints. We present various geometrically motivated criteria and the results of their application to three test case reaction mechanisms serving as examples. We demonstrate that accurate numerical approximations of slow invariant manifolds can be obtained.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3527




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