This paper introduces tensorial calculus techniques in the framework of POD to reduce the computational complexity of the reduced nonlinear terms. The resulting method, named tensorial POD, can be applied to polynomial nonlinearities of any degree p. Such nonlinear terms have an online complexity of O.k pC1 /, where k is the dimension of POD basis and therefore is independent of full space dimension. However, it is efficient only for quadratic nonlinear terms because for higher nonlinearities, POD model proves to be less time consuming once the POD basis dimension k is increased. Numerical experiments are carried out with a two-dimensional SWE test problem to compare the performance of tensorial POD, POD, and POD/discrete empirical interpolation method (DEIM). Numerical results show that tensorial POD decreases by 76 the computational cost of the online stage of POD model for configurations using more than 300,000 model variables. The tensorial POD SWE model was only 2 to 8 slower than the POD/DEIM SWE model but the implementation effort is considerably increased. Tensorial calculus was again employed to construct a new algorithm allowing POD/DEIM SWE model to compute its offline stage faster than POD and tensorial POD approaches. 498 R.ŞTEFȂNESCU, A. SANDU AND I. M. NAVON truncation does not extend easily for high-order systems, and several grammians approximations were proposed leading to methods such as approximate subspace iteration [9], least squares approximation [10], Krylov subspace methods [11,12], and balanced POD [13]. Among moment matching methods, we mention partial realization [14,15], Padé approximation [16][17][18][19], and rational approximation [20].Although for linear models we are able to produce input-independent highly accurate reduced models, in the case of general nonlinear systems, the transfer function approach is not yet applicable and input-specified semi-empirical methods are usually employed. Recently, some encouraging research results using generalized transfer functions and generalized moment matching have been obtained by [21] for nonlinear model order reduction but future investigations are required.Proper orthogonal decomposition and its variants are also known as Karhunen-Loève expansions [22,23], principal component analysis [24], and empirical orthogonal functions [25] among others. It is the most prevalent basis selection method for nonlinear problems and, among other requirements, relies on the fact that the desired simulation is well simulated in the input collection. Data analysis using POD is conducted to extract basis functions from experimental data or detailed simulations of high-dimensional systems (method of snapshots introduced by [26-28]) for subsequent use in Galerkin projections that yield low-dimensional dynamical models. Unfortunately, the POD Galerkin approach displays a major disadvantage because its nonlinear reduced terms still have to be evaluated on the original state space making the simulation of the reduced order system too expensive. There exist seve...