I develop a reduced basis emulator for continuum-discretized coupled-channel (CDCC) calculations that achieves speedups of $\approx {10}^2$ while maintaining subpercent accuracy. The emulator is constructed using the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method applied to snapshots of CDCC solutions computed at sampled points in the optical potential parameter space. The prediction is performed via Galerkin projection onto the reduced basis. I demonstrate the method using deuteron scattering on ${}^{58}\mathrm{Ni}$ at 21.6 MeV as a test case, emulating 18 optical potential parameters simultaneously. The emulator reproduces elastic-scattering cross sections with errors below 0.1% across a wide parameter range. This development enables efficient uncertainty quantification and Bayesian parameter estimation for nuclear reaction calculations that were previously computationally prohibitive.

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• Direct reactions
• Elastic scattering reactions
• Nuclear reactions
• 39 ≤ A ≤ 58
• Optical, coupled-channel & distorted wave models