Quantifying uncertainty: Modern computational representation of probability and applications

NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 105-130

  Matthies, Hermann G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Karhunen Lo'eve expansion; Sparse Smolyak quadrature; Spatially stochastic systems; Stochastic elliptic partial differential equations; Stochastic Galerkin methods; Uncertainty quantification; White noise analysis; Wiener's polynomial chaos

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249011222     PISSN: 18714668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5656-7_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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