Session I.6 - Mathematical Foundations of Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems
Monday, June 12, 15:30 ~ 16:00
Particle dynamics for rare event estimation with PDE-based models
Elisabeth Ullmann
Technical University of Munich, Germany - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The estimation of the probability of rare events is an important task in reliability and risk assessment of critical societal systems, for example, groundwater flow and transport, and engineering structures. In this talk we consider rare events that are expressed in terms of a limit state function which depends on the solution of a partial differential equation (PDE). We present two novel estimators for the rare event probability based on (1) the Ensemble Kalman filter for inverse problems, and (2) a consensus-building mechanism. Both approaches use particles which follow a suitable stochastic dynamics to reach the failure states. The particle methods have historically been used for Bayesian inverse problems. We connect them to rare event estimation.
Joint work with Konstantin Althaus, Fabian Wagner and Iason Papaioannou (TUM).