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Table 4 Correlation functions used in “Inuence of the correlation kernel” section and relative truncation errors, number of retained KLE terms and continuity errors, with \(l_c=0.15L\) in all the cases and \(\tau =|s-t|\)

From: Large scale random fields generation using localized Karhunen–Loève expansion

Kernel name

Function

Truncation error \(\varvec{\epsilon _{KL}^2}\)

Retained terms \(\varvec{N}\)

Continuity error \(\varvec{\epsilon _c}\)

Exponential

\(\exp \left( -\dfrac{\tau }{l_c} \right) \)

0.001

98

\(1.7\times 10^{-6}\)

Triangular

\(\max \left( 1-\dfrac{\tau }{l_c},0 \right) \)

0.001

86

\(1.8\times 10^{-3}\)

Damped sine

\(\dfrac{l_c}{10\tau }\sin \left( \dfrac{10\tau }{l_c} \right) \)

0.001

24

\(1.9\times 10^{-2}\)

Gaussian

\(\exp \left( -\dfrac{\tau }{l_c},\right) ^2\)

0.001

12

\(9.2\times 10^{-3}\)