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3.3 Polynomial Chaos Expansions<br />
Figure 3.1: Relation between the stochastic spaces. We avoid the integration over Ω with respect to<br />
the measure Π. Instead, we transform the integral into integration over a subset <strong>of</strong> IR (the<br />
space Γ i ) with respect to the known PDF ρ <strong>of</strong> the basic random variables ξ i .<br />
3.2.3 Doob-Dynkin Lemma<br />
A famous result for the representation <strong>of</strong> the result <strong>of</strong> SPDEs is the Doob-Dynkin lemma. The<br />
version given here is cited from [132]:<br />
Lemma 1. Let (Ω,Σ) and (S,A ) be measurable spaces and f : Ω → S be a measurable function,<br />
i.e. f −1 (A ) ⊂ Σ. Then a function g : Ω → IR is measurable relative to the σ-algebra f −1 (A ) if and<br />
only if there is a measurable function h : S → IR such that g = h ◦ f .<br />
This lemma ensures that the solution <strong>of</strong> an SPDE is representable in the same random variables as<br />
the finite-dimensional input. This is due to the measurability <strong>of</strong> SPDEs when the coefficient is a<br />
linear combination <strong>of</strong> a finite number <strong>of</strong> random variables, because random variables are measurable<br />
by definition and the solution <strong>of</strong> an SPDE has to be continuous and thus is measurable. Furthermore,<br />
the product <strong>of</strong> a measurable function is measurable.<br />
Having the theory for existence and uniqueness <strong>of</strong> SPDE solutions at hand, we need a representation<br />
<strong>of</strong> stochastic quantities compatible with numerical schemes to compute approximations <strong>of</strong> the<br />
SPDE solutions. This approximation is based on the representation <strong>of</strong> random variables from (3.11).<br />
3.3 Polynomial Chaos Expansions<br />
The main contribution for the numerical treatment <strong>of</strong> SPDEs is the polynomial chaos expansion <strong>of</strong><br />
random variables. Based on the fundamental work <strong>of</strong> Wiener [156], who developed the polynomial<br />
chaos for Gaussian processes, leading to a basis formed by Hermite-polynomials, Cameron and<br />
Martin [27] proved that every random variable with a finite variance has a representation as Fourier-<br />
Hermite series. Later, Xiu and Karniadakis [160] developed the Wiener-Askey polynomial chaos<br />
or generalized polynomial chaos, which allows a representation <strong>of</strong> any random process with finite<br />
second-order moments in the polynomial chaos with an optimal basis.<br />
One main advantage <strong>of</strong> the representation <strong>of</strong> random variables in the polynomial chaos is the<br />
simplification <strong>of</strong> the calculation <strong>of</strong> integrals over the stochastic part. For arbitrary random variables<br />
with unknown probability density function, we have to calculate the integral over the abstract event<br />
space Ω. The use <strong>of</strong> the polynomial chaos expansions allows us to transform this integral into an<br />
integral over the real numbers by <strong>using</strong> the probability density function <strong>of</strong> the underlying random<br />
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