Model reduction of controlled Fokker--Planck and Liouville-von Neumann equations

Model reduction methods for bilinear control systems are compared by means of practical examples of Liouville-von Neumann and Fokker--Planck type. Methods based on balancing generalized system Gramians and on minimizing an H2-type cost functional are considered. The focus is on the numerical implementation and a thorough comparison of the methods. Structure and stability preservation are investigated, and the competitiveness of the approaches is shown for practically relevant, large-scale examples

A unifying framework for tangential interpolation of structured bilinear control systems

In this paper, we consider the structure-preserving model order reduction problem for multi-input/multi-output bilinear control systems by tangential interpolation. We propose a new type of tangential interpolation problem for structured bilinear systems, for which we develop a new structure-preserving interpolation framework. This new framework extends and generalizes different formulations of tangential interpolation for bilinear systems from the literature and also provides a unifying framework. We then derive explicit conditions on the projection spaces to enforce tangential interpolation in different settings, including conditions for tangential Hermite interpolation. The analysis is illustrated by means of three numerical examples.Comment: 33 pages, 9 figure