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On the merits of sparse surrogates for global sensitivity analysis of multi-scale nonlinear problems: application to turbulence and fire-spotting model in wildland fire simulators. (English) Zbl 1464.62359

Summary: Many nonlinear phenomena, whose numerical simulation is not straightforward, depend on a set of parameters in a way which is not easy to predict beforehand. Wildland fires in presence of strong winds fall into this category, also due to the occurrence of firespotting. We present a global sensitivity analysis of a new sub-model for turbulence and fire-spotting included in a wildfire spread model based on a stochastic representation of the fireline. To limit the number of model evaluations, fast surrogate models based on generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) and Gaussian Process are used to identify the key parameters affecting topology and size of burnt area. This study investigates the application of these surrogates to compute Sobol’ sensitivity indices in an idealized test case. The performances of the surrogates for varying size and type of training sets as well as for varying parameterization and choice of algorithms have been compared. In particular, different types of truncation and projection strategies are tested for gPC surrogates. The best performance was achieved using a gPC strategy based on a sparse least-angle regression (LAR) and a low-discrepancy Halton’s sequence. Still, the LAR-based gPC surrogate tends to filter out the information coming from parameters with large length-scale, which is not the case of the cleaning-based gPC surrogate. The wind is known to drive the fire propagation. The results show that it is a more general leading factor that governs the generation of secondary fires. Using a sparse surrogate is thus a promising strategy to analyze new models and its dependency on input parameters in wildfire applications.

MSC:

62K99 Design of statistical experiments
62P12 Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics
35F20 Nonlinear first-order PDEs
35F31 Initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear first-order PDEs
60G15 Gaussian processes
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