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Over the last decade the stochastic Galerkin method has become an established method to solve differential equations involving uncertain parameters. It is based on the generalized Wiener expansion of square integrable random variables. Although there exist very sophisticated variants of the stochastic Galerkin method (wavelet basis, multi-element approach) convergence for random ordinary differential equations has rarely been considered analytically. In this work we develop an asymptotic upper boundary for the L 2-error of the stochastic Galerkin method. Furthermore, we prove convergence of a local application of the stochastic Galerkin method and confirm convergence of the multi-element approach within this context.
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Augustin, F., Rentrop, P. Stochastic Galerkin techniques for random ordinary differential equations. Numer. Math. 122, 399–419 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-012-0466-8
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