Equation-free implementation of statistical moment closures.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.

Published: February 2008

We present a general numerical scheme for the practical implementation of statistical moment closures suitable for modeling complex, large-scale, nonlinear systems. Building on recently developed equation-free methods, this approach numerically integrates the closure dynamics, the equations of which may not even be available in closed form. Although closure dynamics introduce statistical assumptions of unknown validity, they can have significant computational advantages as they typically have fewer degrees of freedom and may be much less stiff than the original detailed model. The numerical closure approach can in principle be applied to a wide class of nonlinear problems, including strongly coupled systems (either deterministic or stochastic) for which there may be no scale separation. We demonstrate the equation-free approach for implementing entropy-based Eyink-Levermore closures on a nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation.

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