Title
Bi-fidelity approximation for uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of irradiated particle-laden turbulence.
Abstract
Particle-laden turbulent flows subject to radiative heating are relevant in many applications, for example concentrated solar power receivers. Efficient and accurate simulations provide valuable insights and enable optimization of such systems. However, as there are many uncertainties inherent in such flows, uncertainty quantification is fundamental to improve the predictive capabilities of the numerical simulations. For large-scale, multi-physics problems exhibiting high-dimensional uncertainty, characterizing the stochastic solution presents a significant computational challenge as most strategies require a large number of high-fidelity solves. This requirement might result in an infeasible number of simulations when a typical converged high-fidelity simulation requires intensive computational resources. To reduce the cost of quantifying high-dimensional uncertainties, we investigate the application of a non-intrusive, bi-fidelity approximation to estimate statistics of quantities of interest associated with an irradiated particle-laden turbulent flow. This method exploits the low-rank structure of the solution to accelerate the stochastic sampling and approximation processes by means of cheaper-to-run, lower fidelity representations. The application of this bi-fidelity approximation results in accurate estimates of the quantities of interest statistics, while requiring a small number of high-fidelity model evaluations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.jcp.2019.108996
Journal of Computational Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bi-fidelity approximation,Irradiated particle-laden turbulence,Low-rank approximation,Non-intrusive,Predictive computational science,Uncertainty quantification
Small number,Applied mathematics,Mathematical optimization,Fidelity,Concentrated solar power,Uncertainty quantification,Turbulence,Sampling (statistics),Particle,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
402
0021-9991
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hillary R. Fairbanks110.37
Lluís Jofre251.52
G. Geraci3103.81
Gianluca Iaccarino422923.37
Alireza Doostan518815.57