Assessing the impacts of urban morphology factors on the energy performance for building stocks based on a novel automatic generation framework

M Wang, H Yu, Y Yang, R Jing, Y Tang, C Li - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The building sector accounts for an increasing amount of energy and emissions with
continued urbanization, and improving the energy performance of building stocks at the …

Assessing convergence in global sensitivity analysis: a review of methods for assessing and monitoring convergence

X Sun, AJ Jakeman, BFW Croke, SG Roberts… - Socio-Environmental …, 2024 - sesmo.org
In global sensitivity analysis (GSA) of a model, a proper convergence analysis of metrics is
essential for ensuring a level of confidence or trustworthiness in sensitivity results obtained …

[HTML][HTML] Developing customized fuel models for shrub and bracken communities in Galicia (NW Spain)

JA Vega, JG Álvarez-González… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Geospatial fire behaviour and fire hazard simulators, fire effects models and smoke emission
software commonly use standard fuel models in order to simplify data collection and the …

PyApprox: A software package for sensitivity analysis, Bayesian inference, optimal experimental design, and multi-fidelity uncertainty quantification and surrogate …

JD Jakeman - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2023 - Elsevier
PyApprox is a Python-based one-stop-shop for probabilistic analysis of numerical models
such as those used in the earth, environmental and engineering sciences. Easy to use and …

Variance-based global sensitivity analysis of a hybrid thermoelectric generator fuzzy system

F Zhang, X Wang, X Hou, C Han, M Wu, Z Liu - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, Hybrid thermoelectric generators (HTEG) model was established based on
nonequilibrium thermodynamics and Newton's heat transfer law. Fuzzy theory was used to …

Modified Quasi-Physical Grassland Fire Spread Model: Sensitivity Analysis

E Mohammadian Bishe, H Afshin, B Farhanieh - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Developing models for predicting the rate of fire spread (ROS) in nature and analyzing the
sensitivity of these models to environmental parameters are of great importance for fire study …

Environmental vulnerability assessment of the Doce River basin, southeastern Brazil

JA Campos, DD da Silva, EI Fernandes Filho… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Environmental vulnerability is an important tool to understand the natural and anthropogenic
impacts associated with the susceptibility to environmental damage. This study aims to …

[HTML][HTML] Cloud-based urgent computing for forest fire spread prediction

E Fraga, A Cortés, T Margalef, P Hernández… - … Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
Forest fires cause every year damages to biodiversity, atmosphere, and economy activities.
Forest fire simulation have improved significantly, but input data describing fire scenarios …

A framework for uncertainty quantification of mixed lubrication of conformal contacts in multilevel systems

J Zhu, H Li, S Wei, S Song - Advances in Engineering Software, 2023 - Elsevier
A typical complex mechanical system usually should be treated as a multilevel system
consists of several subsystems with hierarchical relationship. In response to the situation …

Variance-based sensitivity analysis of oil spill predictions in the Red Sea region

MAER Hammoud, HVR Mittal, O Le Maître… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
To support accidental spill rapid response efforts, oil spill simulations may generally need to
account for uncertainties concerning the nature and properties of the spill, which compound …