Reduced order modeling based on POD of a parabolized Navier-Stokes equations model II: Trust region POD 4D VAR data assimilation

A reduced order model based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) 4D VAR (Four-dimensional Variational) data assimilation for the parabolized Navier–Stokes (PNS) equations is derived. Various approaches of POD implementation of the reduced order inverse problem are studied and compared including an ad-hoc POD adaptivity along with a trust region POD adaptivity. The numerical results obtained show that the trust region POD 4D VAR provides the best results amongst all the POD adaptive methods tested in all error metrics for the reduced order inverse problem of the PNS equations. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.