| Description |
1 online resource (463 pages) |
| Contents |
BERRU predictive modeling for single multiphysics systems (Berru-Sms) -- Berru-Sms forward and inverse predictive modeling applied to a spent fuel dissolver system -- Berru-cms predictive modeling of coupled multiphysics systems -- Berru-cms predictive modeling of nuclear reactor physics systems -- Inverse berru predictive modeling of radiation transport int he presence of counting uncertainties -- Berru-cms application to Savannah River National Laboratory's f-area cooling towers |
| Summary |
This book addresses the experimental calibration of best-estimate numerical simulation models. The results of measurements and computations are never exact. Therefore, knowing only the nominal values of experimentally measured or computed quantities is insufficient for applications, particularly since the respective experimental and computed nominal values seldom coincide. In the author's view, the objective of predictive modeling is to extract "best estimate" values for model parameters and predicted results, together with "best estimate" uncertainties for these parameters and results. To achieve this goal, predictive modeling combines imprecisely known experimental and computational data, which calls for reasoning on the basis of incomplete, error-rich, and occasionally discrepant information. The customary methods used for data assimilation combine experimental and computational information by minimizing an a priori, user-chosen, "cost functional" (usually a quadratic functional that represents the weighted errors between measured and computed responses). In contrast to these user-influenced methods, the BERRU (Best Estimate Results with Reduced Uncertainties) Predictive Modeling methodology developed by the author relies on the thermodynamics-based maximum entropy principle to eliminate the need for relying on minimizing user-chosen functionals, thus generalizing the "data adjustment" and/or the "4D-VAR" data assimilation procedures used in the geophysical sciences. The BERRU predictive modeling methodology also provides a "model validation metric" which quantifies the consistency (agreement/disagreement) between measurements and computations. This "model validation metric" (or "consistency indicator") is constructed from parameter covariance matrices, response covariance matrices (measured and computed), and response sensitivities to model parameters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prediction theory.
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Prediction theory
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783662583951 |
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366258395X |
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9783662583944 |
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3662583941 |
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