Bilinear systems are a class of nonlinear dynamical systems that arise in a variety of applications. In order to obtain a sufficiently accurate representation of the underlying physical phenomenon, these models frequently have state-spaces of very large dimension, resulting in the need for model reduction. In this work, we introduce two new methods for the model reduction of bilinear systems in an interpolation framework. Our first approach is to construct reduced models that satisfy multipoint interpolation constraints defined on the Volterra kernels of the full model. We show that this approach can be used to develop an asymptotically optimal solution to the H_2 model reduction problem for bilinear systems. In our second approach, we construct a solution to a bilinear system realization problem posed in terms of constructing a bilinear realization whose kth-order transfer functions satisfy interpolation conditions in k complex variables. The solution to this realization problem can be used to construct a bilinear system realization directly from sampling data on the kth-order transfer functions, without requiring the formation of the realization matrices for the full bilinear system. / Ph. D.

The SHIRA method of Mehrmann and Watkins belongs among the structure preserving Krylov subspace methods for solving skew-Hamiltonian eigenvalue problems. It can also be applied to Hamiltonian eigenproblems by considering a suitable transformation. Structure induced shift-and-invert techniques are employed to steer the algorithm towards the interesting region of the spectrum. However, the shift cannot be altered in the middle of the computation without discarding the information that has been accumulated so far. This paper shows how SHIRA can be combined with ideas from Ruhe's Rational Krylov algorithm to yield a method that permits an adjustment of shift after every step of the computation, adding greatly to the flexibility of the algorithm. We call this new method rational SHIRA. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate its efficiency.

La solution numérique des systèmes dynamiques est un moyen efficace pour étudier des phénomènes physiques complexes. Cependant, dans un cadre à grande échelle, la dimension du système rend les calculs infaisables en raison des limites de mémoire et de temps, ainsi que le mauvais conditionnement. La solution de ce problème est la réduction de modèles. Cette thèse porte sur les méthodes de projection pour construire efficacement des modèles d'ordre inférieur à partir des systèmes linéaires dynamiques de grande taille. En particulier, nous nous intéressons à la projection sur la réunion de plusieurs sous-espaces de Krylov standard qui conduit à une classe de modèles d'ordre réduit. Cette méthode est connue par l'interpolation rationnelle. En se basant sur ce cadre théorique qui relie la projection de Krylov à l'interpolation rationnelle, quatre algorithmes de type Lanczos rationnel pour la réduction de modèles sont proposés. Dans un premier temps, nous avons introduit une méthode adaptative de type Lanczos rationnel par block pour réduire l'ordre des systèmes linéaires dynamiques de grande taille, cette méthode est basée sur l'algorithme de Lanczos rationnel par block et une méthode adaptative pour choisir les points d'interpolation. Une généralisation de ce premier algorithme est également donnée, où différentes multiplicités sont considérées pour chaque point d'interpolation. Ensuite, nous avons proposé une autre extension de la méthode du sous-espace de Krylov standard pour les systèmes à plusieurs-entrées plusieurs-sorties, qui est le sous-espace de Krylov global. Nous avons obtenu des équations qui décrivent cette procédure. Finalement, nous avons proposé une méthode de Lanczos étendu par block et nous avons établi de nouvelles propriétés algébriques pour cet algorithme. L'efficacité et la précision de tous les algorithmes proposés, appliqués sur des problèmes de réduction de modèles, sont testées dans plusieurs exemples numériques. / Numerical solution of dynamical systems have been a successful means for studying complex physical phenomena. However, in large-scale setting, the system dimension makes the computations infeasible due to memory and time limitations, and ill-conditioning. The remedy of this problem is model reductions. This dissertations focuses on projection methods to efficiently construct reduced order models for large linear dynamical systems. Especially, we are interesting by projection onto unions of Krylov subspaces which lead to a class of reduced order models known as rational interpolation. Based on this theoretical framework that relate Krylov projection to rational interpolation, four rational Lanczos-type algorithms for model reduction are proposed. At first, an adaptative rational block Lanczos-type method for reducing the order of large scale dynamical systems is introduced, based on a rational block Lanczos algorithm and an adaptive approach for choosing the interpolation points. A generalization of the first algorithm is also given where different multiplicities are consider for each interpolation point. Next, we proposed another extension of the standard Krylov subspace method for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems, which is the global Krylov subspace, and we obtained also some equations that describe this process. Finally, an extended block Lanczos method is introduced and new algebraic properties for this algorithm are also given. The accuracy and the efficiency of all proposed algorithms when applied to model order reduction problem are tested by means of different numerical experiments that use a collection of well known benchmark examples.

The SHIRA method of Mehrmann and Watkins belongs among the structure preserving Krylov subspace methods for solving skew-Hamiltonian eigenvalue problems. It can also be applied to Hamiltonian eigenproblems by considering a suitable transformation. Structure induced shift-and-invert techniques are employed to steer the algorithm towards the interesting region of the spectrum. However, the shift cannot be altered in the middle of the computation without discarding the information that has been accumulated so far. This paper shows how SHIRA can be combined with ideas from Ruhe's Rational Krylov algorithm to yield a method that permits an adjustment of shift after every step of the computation, adding greatly to the flexibility of the algorithm. We call this new method rational SHIRA. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate its efficiency.