Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing - Hardcover

William L. Oberkampf , Christopher J. Roy

 
9781316516133: Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing

Synopsis

Discover how verification of codes and simulations, validation of models, allied with uncertainty quantification, improves decision making.

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About the Authors

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 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.

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