Data-Driven Reduced Model Construction with Time-Domain Loewner Models

This work presents a data-driven nonintrusive model reduction approach for large-scale time-dependent systems with linear state dependence. Traditionally, model reduction is performed in an intrusive projection-based framework, where the operators of the full model are required either explicitly in an assembled form or implicitly through a routine that returns the action of the operators on a vector. Our nonintrusive approach constructs reduced models directly from trajectories of the inputs and outputs of the full model, without requiring the full-model operators. These trajectories are generated by running a simulation of the full model; our method then infers frequency-response data from these simulated time-domain trajectories and uses the data-driven Loewner framework to derive a reduced model. Only a single time-domain simulation is required to derive a reduced model with the new data-driven nonintrusive approach. We demonstrate our model reduction method on several benchmark examples and a finite element model of a cantilever beam; our approach recovers the classical Loewner reduced models and, for these problems, yields high-quality reduced models despite treating the full model as a black box.