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Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing

Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing

Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing

2nd Edition
William L. Oberkampf, W. L. Oberkampf Consulting
Christopher J. Roy, Virginia Tech
April 2025
Hardback
9781316516133
Hardback

    Can you trust results from modeling and simulation? This text provides a framework for assessing the reliability of and uncertainty included in the results used by decision makers and policy makers in industry and government. The emphasis is on models described by PDEs and their numerical solution. Procedures and results from all aspects of verification and validation are integrated with modern methods in uncertainty quantification and stochastic simulation. Methods for combining numerical approximation errors, uncertainty in model input parameters, and model form uncertainty are presented in order to estimate the uncertain response of a system in the presence of stochastic inputs and lack of knowledge uncertainty. This new edition has been extensively updated, including a fresh look at model accuracy assessment and the responsibilities of management for modeling and simulation activities. Extra homework problems and worked examples have been added to each chapter, suitable for course use or self-study.

    • Suitable as a text, or supplementary text, for undergraduate and graduate courses, with new homework problems and worked examples added to each chapter
    • Includes material suitable for undergraduate students with limited experience in the numerical solution of partial differential equations
    • Provides detailed examples in code verification, solution verification, model validation, uncertainty quantification, and predictive capability
    • Includes three chapters on how organizations can plan, manage and implement credibility assessment procedures

    Reviews & endorsements

    'This landmark book, by two top-level experts in VVUQ, is a major contribution to the field of scientific computing. It provides the concepts and the tools to develop critical judgement when evaluating results from numerical simulations. Addressing students, researchers as well as practitioners. An essential and necessary contribution towards gaining confidence in the computational based design process!' Charles Hirsch, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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    Product details

    April 2025
    Hardback
    9781316516133
    729 pages
    263 × 186 × 42 mm
    1.544kg
    Not yet published - available from June 2025

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • Part I. Fundamental Concepts:
    • 2. Fundamental concepts and terminology
    • 3. Modeling and computational simulation
    • Part II. Code Verification and Software Engineering:
    • 4. Software engineering for scientific computing
    • 5. Code order-of-accuracy verification
    • 6. Exact and manufactured solutions
    • Part III. Solution Verification:
    • 7. Numerical uncertainty estimation
    • 8. Iterative error
    • 9. Discretization error
    • Part IV. Model Validation and Predictive Capability:
    • 10. Model validation fundamentals
    • 11. Design and execution of model validation experiments
    • 12. Model accuracy assessment
    • 13. Predictive capability
    • Part V. Planning, Management, and Implementation Issues:
    • 14. Planning and prioritization in modeling and simulation
    • 15. Maturity assessment of modeling and simulation
    • 16. Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification responsibilities and management
    • Index.
      Authors
    • William L. Oberkampf , W. L. Oberkampf Consulting

      William L. Oberkampf has more than fifty years of experience in research and development in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and solid mechanics. Over the past twnety-five years he has focused on research and teaching of verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification in modeling and simulation. He is a Fellow of AIAA and a Fellow of NAFEMS.

    • Christopher J. Roy , Virginia Tech

      Christopher J. Roy is Professor in the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech. He has worked primarily in the area of computational fluid dynamics, but has participated in or organized multiple validation experiments. He has taught more than fifty short courses in the field of verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification and has more than 200 publications in the field.