2025/03/23 by Kogelbauer, Florian, Karlin, Ilya
#Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.18021
We derive the dynamically optimal projection onto the linear slow manifold from a temporal variational principle. We demonstrate that the projection captures transient dynamics of the overall dissipative system and leads to a considerably improved fit of reduced trajectories compared to full trajectories. We illustrate these optimal model reduction properties on explicit examples, including the linear three-component Grad's moment system.