A static condensation reduced basis element method: Complex problems

Abstract We extend the static condensation reduced basis element (scRBE) method to treat the class of parametrized complex Helmholtz partial differential equations. The main ingredients are (i) static condensation at the interdomain level, (ii) a conforming eigenfunction “port” representation at the interface level, (iii) the reduced basis (RB) approximation of finite element (FE) bubble functions at the intradomain level, and (iv) rigorous system-level error bounds which reflect RB perturbation of the FE Schur complement. We then incorporate these ingredients in an Offline–Online computational strategy to achieve rapid and accurate prediction of parametric systems formed from instantiations of interoperable parametrized archetype components from a Library. We introduce a number of extensions with respect to the original scRBE framework: first, primal–dual RB methods for general non-symmetric (complex) problems; second, stability constant procedures for weakly coercive problems (at both the interdomain level and intradomain level); third, treatment of non-port linear–functional outputs (as well as functions of outputs); fourth, consideration of particular components and outputs relevant to acoustic applications. We consider several numerical examples in acoustics (in particular focused on mufflers and horns) to demonstrate that the approach can handle models with many parameters and/or topology variations with particular reference to waveguide-like applications.