A review of uncertainty analysis in building energy assessment

W Tian, Y Heo, P De Wilde, Z Li, D Yan, CS Park… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Uncertainty analysis in building energy assessment has become an active research field
because a number of factors influencing energy use in buildings are inherently uncertain …

[PDF][PDF] Fast numerical methods for stochastic computations: a review

D Xiu - Communications in computational physics, 2009 - ece.uvic.ca
This paper presents a review of the current state-of-the-art of numerical methods for
stochastic computations. The focus is on efficient high-order methods suitable for practical …

[图书][B] Numerical methods for stochastic computations: a spectral method approach

D Xiu - 2010 - books.google.com
The@ first graduate-level textbook to focus on fundamental aspects of numerical methods
for stochastic computations, this book describes the class of numerical methods based on …

Data-driven uncertainty quantification using the arbitrary polynomial chaos expansion

S Oladyshkin, W Nowak - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2012 - Elsevier
We discuss the arbitrary polynomial chaos (aPC), which has been subject of research in a
few recent theoretical papers. Like all polynomial chaos expansion techniques, aPC …

An adaptive hierarchical sparse grid collocation algorithm for the solution of stochastic differential equations

X Ma, N Zabaras - Journal of Computational Physics, 2009 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in analyzing and quantifying the effects of
random inputs in the solution of ordinary/partial differential equations. To this end, the …

Gaussian processes with built-in dimensionality reduction: Applications to high-dimensional uncertainty propagation

R Tripathy, I Bilionis, M Gonzalez - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) tasks, such as model calibration, uncertainty propagation,
and optimization under uncertainty, typically require several thousand evaluations of the …

Efficient posterior exploration of a high‐dimensional groundwater model from two‐stage Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation and polynomial chaos expansion

E Laloy, B Rogiers, JA Vrugt… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study reports on two strategies for accelerating posterior inference of a highly
parameterized and CPU‐demanding groundwater flow model. Our method builds on …

Approximation of high-dimensional parametric PDEs

A Cohen, R DeVore - Acta Numerica, 2015 - cambridge.org
Parametrized families of PDEs arise in various contexts such as inverse problems, control
and optimization, risk assessment, and uncertainty quantification. In most of these …

A comparative study of uncertainty propagation methods for black-box-type problems

SH Lee, W Chen - Structural and multidisciplinary optimization, 2009 - Springer
A wide variety of uncertainty propagation methods exist in literature; however, there is a lack
of good understanding of their relative merits. In this paper, a comparative study on the …

[图书][B] The stochastic perturbation method for computational mechanics

M Kaminski - 2013 - books.google.com
Probabilistic analysis is increasing in popularity and importance within engineering and the
applied sciences. However, the stochastic perturbation technique is a fairly recent …