Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Graziani, Frank (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, 62
• Subjects: Physics.; Computers.; Computer mathematics.; Astrophysics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Physics, general.; Theory of Computation.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

The focus of this book deals with a cross cutting issue affecting all particle transport algorithms and applications; verification and validation (V&V). In other words, are the equations being solved correctly and are the correct equations being solved? Verification and validation assures a scie...

Table of Contents:

• Verification (Mostly) for High Energy Density Radiation Transport: Five Case Studies
• A General Strategy for Physics-Based Model Validation Illustrated with Earthquake Phenomenology, Atmospheric Radiative Transfer, and Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Spectral Solvers to Non-Conservative Transport for Non-Linear Interactive Systems of Boltzmann Type
• The Art of Analytical Benchmarking
• Implicit Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulations of Four Test Problems
• The Prompt Spectrum of a Radiating Sphere: Benchmark Solutions for Diffusion and Transport
• Some Verification Problems with Possible Transport Applications
• Canopy Reflectance Model Benchmarking: RAMI and the ROMC
• Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for Models of Complex Systems
• A Brief Overview of the State-of-the-Practice and Current Challenges of Solution Verification
• Expert Panel Opinion and Global Sensitivity Analysis for Composite Indicators
• A Practical Global Sensitivity Analysis Methodology for Multi-Physics Applications.