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AE 598 UQ1 - Uncertainty Quantification
Last offered Spring 2025
Official Description
Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in aerospace engineering intended to augment existing formal courses. Topics and prerequisites vary for each section. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for both. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary to a maximum of 12 hours.
Section Description
This course will introduce technique for quantifying the uncertainty of simulation predictions. After the predictive science challenge is introduced and motivated with examples, we will: review basic statistical tools and distributions; discuss probability as measures of belief; examine the strengths, limitations, and design of experiments for calibration and validation; introduce quantitative model selection and hypothesis testing for the design and evaluation of physical models; and present methods to propagate known uncertainties through a predictive simulation to the quantity of interest. Inverse adjoint-based sensitivity methods will be discussed for use in validation and uncertainty quantification. Mechanics based examples will be used throughout for motivation.
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Schedule and Instructors
Title | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
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Uncertainty Quantification | UQ1 | 62621 | LEC | 4 | 1230 - 1350 | T R | 403B2 Engineering Hall | Marco Panesi |