Title
Bayesian and variational Bayesian approaches for flows in heterogeneous random media.
Abstract
In this paper, we study porous media flows in heterogeneous stochastic media. We propose an efficient forward simulation technique that is tailored for variational Bayesian inversion. As a starting point, the proposed forward simulation technique decomposes the solution into the sum of separable functions (with respect to randomness and the space), where each term is calculated based on a variational approach. This is similar to Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD). Next, we apply a multiscale technique to solve for each term (as in [1]) and, further, decompose the random function into 1D fields. As a result, our proposed method provides an approximation hierarchy for the solution as we increase the number of terms in the expansion and, also, increase the spatial resolution of each term. We use the hierarchical solution distributions in a variational Bayesian approximation to perform uncertainty quantification in the inverse problem. We conduct a detailed numerical study to explore the performance of the proposed uncertainty quantification technique and show the theoretical posterior concentration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.jcp.2017.04.034
Journal of Computational Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Uncertainty quantification,Variational Bayesian method,Proper generalized decomposition
Mathematical optimization,Uncertainty quantification,Separable space,Inverse problem,Hierarchy,Image resolution,Mathematics,Bayesian probability,Randomness,Random function
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
345
C
0021-9991
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Keren Yang120.43
Nilabja Guha2102.29
Yalchin Efendiev358167.04
Bani K. Mallick420220.05