A New Error Estimator for Reduced-Order Modeling of Linear Parametric Systems

Efficient error estimation is important for reliable reduced-order modeling with guaranteed accuracy. We propose an error estimator for reduced-order modeling of linear parametric dynamical systems. The error estimator estimates the error of the reduced transfer function in the frequency domain and can be easily extended to the output error estimation of the reduced-order models (ROMs) for linear steady parametric systems. It is tight and cheap to compute. Using the error estimator, the ROM can be adaptively obtained with high reliability. Numerical results show that the error estimator can accurately estimate the true error even for transfer functions with many resonances. Compared with an existing error bound, the proposed error estimator can be orders of magnitudes sharper and needs much less computational time.