Peter Benner

Peter Benner
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems | MPI · Group of Computational Methods in Systems and Control Theory (CSC)

Director

About

858
Publications
107,812
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
14,939
Citations
Introduction
We study numerical methods for dynamical systems, often in an input-output, or system-theoretic, context. In particular, we develop model order reduction techniques for control systems, and learn unknown dynamics from data using scientific machine learning. A second research focus is numerical linear and multilinear algebra with focus on eigenvalue problems and matrix equations. Parallel algorithms are often developed for truly large-scale problems.
Additional affiliations
May 2010 - present
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Position
  • Managing Director
Description
  • Research Institute
October 2003 - June 2023
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Position
  • Professor
September 2001 - September 2003
Technische Universität Berlin
Position
  • Lecturer

Publications

Publications (858)
Article
Full-text available
In this article, we consider vibrational systems with semi-active damping that are described by a second-order model. In order to minimize the influence of external inputs to the system response, we are optimizing some damping values. As minimization criterion, we evaluate the energy response, that is the H2\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage...
Article
Science is and always has been based on data, but the terms ‘data-centric’ and the ‘4th paradigm of’ materials research indicate a radical change in how information is retrieved, handled and research is performed. It signifies a transformative shift towards managing vast data collections, digital repositories, and innovative data analytics methods....
Article
Full-text available
We study a class of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations with boundary control. This class describes chemical reactions of the type “A→\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemar...
Article
In this paper, we discuss a novel model reduction framework for linear structured dynamical systems. The transfer functions of these systems are assumed to have a special structure, for example, coming from second‐order linear systems or time‐delay systems, and they may also have parameter dependencies. Firstly, we investigate the connection betwee...
Article
Full-text available
In this work, we investigate a model order reduction scheme for high-fidelity nonlinear structured parametric dynamical systems. More specifically, we consider a class of nonlinear dynamical systems whose nonlinear terms are polynomial functions, and the linear part corresponds to a linear structured model, such as second-order, time-delay, or frac...
Article
Full-text available
High-dimensional/high-fidelity nonlinear dynamical systems appear naturally when the goal is to accurately model real-world phenomena. Many physical properties are thereby encoded in the internal differential structure of these resulting large-scale nonlinear systems. The high dimensionality of the dynamics causes computational bottlenecks, especia...
Article
Full-text available
This survey discusses a posteriori error estimation for model order reduction of parametric systems, including linear and nonlinear, time-dependent and steady systems. We focus on introducing the error estimators we have proposed in the past few years and comparing them with the most related error estimators from the literature. For a clearer compa...
Preprint
Full-text available
Science is and always has been based on data, but the terms ‘data-centric’ and the ‘4th paradigm’ of materials research indicate a radical change in how information is retrieved, handled and research is performed. It signifies a transformative shift towards managing vast data collections, digital repositories, and innovative data analytics methods....
Preprint
Full-text available
Science is and always has been based on data, but the terms ‘data-centric’ and the ‘4th paradigm’ of materials research indicate a radical change in how information is retrieved, handled and research is performed. It signifies a transformative shift towards managing vast data collections, digital repositories, and innovative data analytics methods....
Preprint
Full-text available
Science is and always has been based on data, but the terms ‘data-centric’ and the ‘4th paradigm’ of materials research indicate a radical change in how information is retrieved, handled and research is performed. It signifies a transformative shift towards managing vast data collections, digital repositories, and innovative data analytics methods....
Article
Full-text available
We investigate a weakly nonlinear boundary-value problem for a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations with discontinuous right-hand side and periodic boundary conditions. A modified iterative scheme is proposed for the construction of approximate solutions of this problem. Unlike our previous results, this scheme is based on the refine...
Article
Full-text available
Accurate error estimation is crucial in model order reduction, to obtain small reduced-order models as well as to certify their accuracy when deployed in downstream applications such as digital twins. In existing a posteriori error estimation approaches, knowledge about the time integration scheme is mandatory, e.g., the residual-based error estima...
Article
Mathematical models of the human heart increasingly play a vital role in understanding the working mechanisms of the heart, both under healthy functioning and during disease. The ultimate aim is to aid medical practitioners diagnose and treat the many ailments affecting the heart. Towards this, modeling cardiac electrophysiology is crucial as the h...
Preprint
Full-text available
Mathematical models of the human heart are increasingly playing a vital role in understanding the working mechanisms of the heart, both under healthy functioning and during disease. The aim is to aid medical practitioners diagnose and treat the many ailments affecting the heart. Towards this, modelling cardiac electrophysiology is crucial as the he...
Article
A reliable model order reduction (MOR) process for parametric analysis in electromagnetics is detailed. Special emphasis is placed on certifying the accuracy of the reduced-order model. For this purpose, a sharp state error estimator is proposed. Standard a posteriori state error estimation for MOR relies on the inf-sup constant. For parametric sys...
Article
Full-text available
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 ex...
Preprint
Full-text available
This survey discusses a posteriori error estimation for model order reduction of parametric systems, including linear and nonlinear, time-dependent and steady systems. We focus on introducing the error estimators we have proposed in the past few years and comparing them with the most related error estimators from the literature. For a clearer compa...
Article
Full-text available
Non‐intrusive model reduction is a promising solution to system dynamics prediction, especially in cases where data are collected from experimental campaigns or proprietary software simulations. In this work, we present a method for non‐intrusive model reduction applied to Fluid‐Structure Interaction (FSI) problems. The approach is based on the a p...
Preprint
Full-text available
The discovery of governing equations from data has been an active field of research for decades. One widely used methodology for this purpose is sparse regression for nonlinear dynamics, known as SINDy. Despite several attempts, noisy and scarce data still pose a severe challenge to the success of the SINDy approach. In this work, we discuss a robu...
Chapter
Suppressing vibrations in mechanical systems, usually described by second-order dynamical models, is a challenging task in mechanical engineering in terms of computational resources even nowadays. One remedy is structure-preserving model order reduction to construct easy-to-evaluate surrogates for the original dynamical system having the same struc...
Article
Interpolation‐based data‐driven methods, such as the Loewner framework or the Adaptive Antoulas‐Anderson (AAA) algorithm, are established and effective approaches to find a realization of a dynamical system from frequency response data (measurements of the system's transfer function). If a system‐theoretic representation of the original model is no...
Article
The race for the most efficient, accurate, and universal algorithm in scientific computing drives innovation. At the same time, this healthy competition is only beneficial if the research output is actually comparable to prior results. Fairly comparing algorithms can be a complex endeavor, as the implementation, configuration, compute environment,...
Article
Full-text available
This paper investigates the projective lag quasi-synchronization by feedback control of a coupled dynamical system with delays and parameter mismatches on arbitrary time domains. Being formulated on time scales, our results are valid simultaneously for continuous- and discrete-time models as well as for any non-standard time domain. Furthermore, th...
Article
Model order reduction usually consists of two stages: the offline stage and the online stage. The offline stage is the expensive part that sometimes takes hours till the final reduced‐order model is derived, especially when the original model is very large or complex. Once the reduced‐order model is obtained, the online stage of querying the reduce...
Article
Full-text available
Numerical algorithms and computational tools are essential for managing and analyzing complex data processing tasks. With ever increasing availability of meta-data and parameter-driven simulations, the demand and the need for reliable and automated workflow frameworks to reproduce computational experiments has grown. In this work, we aim to develop...
Preprint
Full-text available
Scientific machine learning for learning dynamical systems is a powerful tool that combines data-driven modeling models, physics-based modeling, and empirical knowledge. It plays an essential role in an engineering design cycle and digital twinning. In this work, we primarily focus on an operator inference methodology that builds dynamical models,...
Preprint
Full-text available
Discovering a suitable coordinate transformation for nonlinear systems enables the construction of simpler models, facilitating prediction, control, and optimization for complex nonlinear systems. To that end, Koopman operator theory offers a framework for global linearization for nonlinear systems, thereby allowing the usage of linear tools for de...
Article
In this note, we analyze the compatibility conditions of 2D descriptor systems with periodic coefficients and we derive a special coordinate system in which these conditions reduce to simple matrix commutativity conditions. We also show that the compatibility of the different trajectories in such a periodic 2D descriptor system can elegantly be for...
Preprint
Full-text available
We study a class of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations with boundary control. This class describes chemical reactions of the type ``$A \to$ product'' carried out in a plug flow reactor (PFR) in the presence of an inert component. An isoperimetric optimal control problem with periodic boundary conditions and input constraints is for...
Preprint
Full-text available
We study the tangential interpolation problem for a passive transfer function in standard state-space form. We derive new interpolation conditions based on the computation of a deflating subspace associated with a selection of spectral zeros of a parameterized para-Hermitian transfer function. We show that this technique improves the robustness of...
Preprint
Full-text available
This work discusses the model reduction problem for large-scale multi-symplectic PDEs with cubic invariants. For this, we present a linearly implicit global energy-preserving method to construct reduced-order models. This allows to construct reduced-order models in the form of Hamiltonian systems suitable for long-time integration. Furthermore, We...
Preprint
Full-text available
We present a framework for learning Hamiltonian systems using data. This work is based on the lifting hypothesis, which posits that nonlinear Hamiltonian systems can be written as nonlinear systems with cubic Hamiltonians. By leveraging this, we obtain quadratic dynamics that are Hamiltonian in a transformed coordinate system. To that end, for give...
Preprint
Full-text available
Accurate error estimation is crucial in model order reduction, both to obtain small reduced-order models and to certify their accuracy when deployed in downstream applications such as digital twins. In existing a posteriori error estimation approaches, knowledge about the time integration scheme is mandatory, e.g., the residual-based error estimato...
Article
Full-text available
Measurement noise is an integral part of collecting data of a physical process. Thus, noise removal is necessary to draw conclusions from these data, and it often becomes essential to construct dynamical models using these data. We discuss a methodology to learn differential equation(s) using noisy and irregularly sampled measurements. In our metho...
Article
Full-text available
Objective: In the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, child and adolescent psychiatry wards face the risk of severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) introduction and spread within the facility. In this setting, mask and vaccine mandates are hard to enforce, especially for younger children. Surveillance testing may detect infe...
Preprint
Full-text available
The race for the most efficient, accurate, and universal algorithm in scientific computing drives innovation. At the same time, this healthy competition is only beneficial if the research output is actually comparable to prior results. Fairly comparing algorithms can be a complex endeavor, as the implementation, configuration, compute environment,...
Preprint
Full-text available
Non-intrusive model reduction is a promising solution to system dynamics prediction, especially in cases where data are collected from experimental campaigns or proprietary software simulations. In this work, we present a method for non-intrusive model reduction applied to Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problems. The approach is based on the a p...
Preprint
Full-text available
When repeated evaluations for varying parameter configurations of a high-fidelity physical model are required, surrogate modeling techniques based on model order reduction are desired. In absence of the governing equations describing the dynamics, we need to construct the parametric reduced-order surrogate model in a non-intrusive fashion. In this...
Chapter
Full-text available
The deviation of the tool center point (TCP) of a machine tool from its desired location needs to be assessed correctly to ensure an accurate and safe operation of the machine. A major source of TCP deviation are thermal loads, which are constantly changing during operation. Numerical simulation models help predicting these loads, but are typically...
Preprint
The generalized Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma as established by Iwasaki and Hara in 2005 marks a milestone in the analysis and synthesis of linear systems from a finite-frequency perspective. Given a pre-specified frequency band, it allows us to produce passive controllers with excellent in-band disturbance attenuation performance at the expense of...
Article
Linear projection schemes like Proper Orthogonal Decomposition can efficiently reduce the dimensions of dynamical systems but are naturally limited, e.g., for convection‐dominated problems. Nonlinear approaches have shown to outperform linear methods in terms of dimension reduction versus accuracy but, typically, come with a large computational ove...
Article
Machine tools are permanently exposed to complex static, dynamic and thermic loads. This often results in an undesired displacement of the tool center point (TCP), causing errors in the production process and thus limiting the achievable workpiece quality. Recent research efforts try to counter these effects by process‐parallel solutions utilizing...
Preprint
In this article, we consider vibrational systems with semi-active damping that are described by a second-order model. In order to minimize the influence of external inputs to the system response, we are optimizing some damping values. As minimization criterion, we evaluate the energy response, that is the $\cH_2$-norm of the corresponding transfer...
Preprint
A non-intrusive model order reduction (MOR) method that combines features of the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) and the radial basis function (RBF) network is proposed to predict the dynamics of parametric nonlinear systems. In many applications, we have limited access to the information of the whole system, which motivates non-intrusive model re...
Article
Full-text available
We investigate the existence of solutions of weakly nonlinear periodic boundary value problems for systems of ordinary differential equations with switchings and the construction of these solutions. We consider the critical case where the equation for the generating constants of a weakly nonlinear periodic boundary-value problem with switchings doe...
Preprint
High-dimensional/high-fidelity nonlinear dynamical systems appear naturally when the goal is to accurately model real-world phenomena. Many physical properties are thereby encoded in the internal differential structure of these resulting large-scale nonlinear systems. The high-dimensionality of the dynamics causes computational bottlenecks, especia...
Article
Full-text available
In this article, we investigate exponential lag synchronization results for the Cohen–Grossberg neural networks with discrete and distributed delays on an arbitrary time domain by applying feedback control. We formulate the problem by using the time scales theory so that the results can be applied to any uniform or non-uniform time domains. Also, w...
Article
Full-text available
The purpose of this work is the development of a trained artificial neural network for surrogate modeling of the mechanical response of elasto-viscoplastic grain microstructures. To this end, a U-Net-based convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained using results for the von Mises stress field from the numerical solution of initial-boundary-value...
Article
The quantification of multivariate uncertainties in partial differential equations can easily exceed any computing capacity unless proper measures are taken to reduce the complexity of the model. In this work, we propose a multidimensional Galerkin proper orthogonal decomposition that optimally reduces each dimension of a tensorized product space....
Preprint
Full-text available
Vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) pose computationally expensive problems of high practical interest to several engineering fields. In this work we develop a non-intrusive, reduced-order modelling methodology for two-dimensional (2D) VIV simulations. We consider an elliptical, non-deformable solid mounted on springs, subject to a laminar, incompressi...
Preprint
While extracting information from data with machine learning plays an increasingly important role, physical laws and other first principles continue to provide critical insights about systems and processes of interest in science and engineering. This work introduces a method that infers models from data with physical insights encoded in the form of...
Preprint
Full-text available
High-dimensional data in the form of tensors are challenging for kernel classification methods. To both reduce the computational complexity and extract informative features, kernels based on low-rank tensor decompositions have been proposed. However, what decisive features of the tensors are exploited by these kernels is often unclear. In this pape...
Article
UDC 517.9 We establish constructive necessary and sufficient conditions of solvability and a scheme for the construction of solutions for a nonlinear boundary-value problem unsolved with respect to the derivative. We also suggest convergent iterative schemes for finding approximate solutions of this problem. As an example of application of the prop...
Preprint
Machine-learning technologies for learning dynamical systems from data play an important role in engineering design. This research focuses on learning continuous linear models from data. Stability, a key feature of dynamic systems, is especially important in design tasks such as prediction and control. Thus, there is a need to develop methodologies...
Preprint
In this work, we investigate a model order reduction scheme for high-fidelity nonlinear structured parametric dynamical systems. More specifically, we consider a class of nonlinear dynamical systems whose nonlinear terms are polynomial functions, and the linear part corresponds to a linear structured model, such as second-order, time-delay, or frac...
Preprint
Full-text available
Model order reduction usually consists of two stages: the offline stage and the online stage. The offline stage is the expensive part that sometimes takes hours till the final reduced-order model is derived, especially when the original model is very large or complex. Once the reduced-order model is obtained, the online stage of querying the reduce...
Article
Full-text available
We propose an adaptive moment-matching framework for model order reduction of quadratic-bilinear systems. In this framework, an important issue is the selection of those shift frequencies where moment-matching is to be achieved. So far, the choice often has been random or linked to the linear part of the nonlinear system. In this paper, we extend t...
Article
We propose a novel technique for fast predicting the transfer function of linear systems without information on system matrices by combining machine learning (ML) with model-order reduction. The transfer function of a linear time-invariant system can be written as $H(s)=C G(s)^{-1} B+D$ . In some situations, it is difficult to obtain the individu...
Preprint
Full-text available
We investigate the existence of solutions of weakly nonlinear periodic boundary value problems for systems of ordinary differential equations with switchings and the construction of these solutions. We consider the critical case where the equation for the generating constants of a weakly nonlinear periodic boundary-value problem with switchings doe...
Article
We develop a compact, reliable model order reduction approach for fast frequency sweeps in microwave circuits by means of the reduced-basis method. Contrary to what has been previously done, special emphasis is placed on certifying the accuracy of the reduced-order model (ROM) with respect to the original full-order model (FOM) in an effective and...
Preprint
The engineering design process (e.g., control and forecasting) relies on mathematical modeling, describing the underlying dynamic behavior. For complex dynamics behavior, modeling procedures, as well as models, can be intricated, which can make the design process cumbersome. Therefore, it is desirable to have a common model structure, which is also...
Preprint
Model-order reduction techniques allow the construction of low-dimensional surrogate models that can accelerate engineering design processes. Often, these techniques are intrusive, meaning that they require direct access to underlying high-fidelity models. Accessing these models is laborious or may not even be possible in some cases. Therefore, the...
Article
Full-text available
One of the most computationally expensive steps of the low-rank ADI method for large-scale Lyapunov equations is the solution of a shifted linear system at each iteration. We propose the use of the extended Krylov subspace method for this task. In particular, we illustrate how a single approximation space can be constructed to solve all the shifted...
Article
In this work, a stable and accurate model order reduction method for large-scale partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) models with many delays is proposed. The method reduces the dimension of the original model by interpolating the original transfer function. The interpolation points are iteratively selected using a greedy algorithm. An efficie...
Preprint
Linear projection schemes like Proper Orthogonal Decomposition can efficiently reduce the dimensions of dynamical systems but are naturally limited, e.g., for convection-dominated problems. Nonlinear approaches have shown to outperform linear methods in terms of dimension reduction versus accuracy but, typically, come with a large computational ove...
Article
An algorithm for constructing a $J$-orthogonal basis of the extended Krylov subspace$\mathcal{K}_{r,s}=\operatorname{range}\{u,Hu, H^2u,$ $ \ldots, $ $H^{2r-1}u, H^{-1}u, H^{-2}u, \ldots, H^{-2s}u\},$where $H \in \mathbb{R}^{2n \times 2n}$ is a large (and sparse) Hamiltonian matrix is derived (for $r = s+1$ or $r=s$). Surprisingly, this allows for...
Preprint
Full-text available
In this article, we investigate exponential lag synchronization results for the Cohen-Grossberg neural networks (C-GNNs) with discrete and distributed delays on an arbitrary time domain by applying feedback control. We formulate the problem by using the time scales theory so that the results can be applied to any uniform or non-uniform time domains...
Preprint
We discuss the feedback control problem for a two-dimensional two-phase Stefan problem. In our approach, we use a sharp interface representation in combination with mesh-movement to track the interface position. To attain a feedback control, we apply the linear-quadratic regulator approach to a suitable linearization of the problem. We address deta...
Preprint
Full-text available
The purpose of this work is the development of an artificial neural network (ANN) for surrogate modeling of the mechanical response of viscoplastic grain microstructures. To this end, a U-Net-based convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained to account for the history dependence of the material behavior. The training data take the form of numeric...
Chapter
To overcome many-query optimization, control, or uncertainty quantification work loads in reliable gas and energy network operations, model order reduction is the mathematical technology of choice. To this end, we enhance the model, solver and reductor components of the morgen platform, introduced in Himpe et al. [J. Math. Ind. 11:13, 2021], and co...

Network

Cited By