Uncertainty quantification and model validation of fire/thermal response predictions

Collection of Technical Papers - 18th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1210-1224

  Black, Amalia R ^a,b,c   Hobbs, Michael L ^a,d   Dowding, Kevin J ^a,b,c   Blanchat, Tom K ^a,e  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Validation and Uncertainty Quantification Processes   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Thermal and Reactive Processes   (United States)

^e MS 1135   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING (LHS); MODEL VALIDATION; THERMAL RESPONSE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

FIRES;

EID: 35649028622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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