Snapshot location by error equilibration in proper orthogonal decomposition for linear and semilinear parabolic partial differential equations

It is well-known that the performance of snapshot based POD and POD-DEIM for spatially semidiscretized parabolic PDEs depends on the proper selection of the snapshot locations. In this contribution, we present an approach that for a fixed number of snapshots selects the location based on error equilibration in the sense that the global discretization error is approximately the same in each associated subinterval. The global discretization error is assessed by a hierarchical-type a posteriori error estimator known from automatic time-stepping for systems of ODEs. We study the impact of this snapshot selection on error equilibration for the ROM and provide numerical examples that illustrate the performance of the suggested approach.