Critical review and latest developments of a class of simulation algorithms for strongly non-Gaussian random fields

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 393-407

  Bocchini, Paolo ^a   Deodatis, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Non Gaussian stochastic fields and processes; Simulation; Spectral Representation Method; Translation fields and processes

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CRITICAL REVIEW; FIELD THEORY; GAUSSIAN FIELDS; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; LATEST DEVELOPMENT; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-GAUSSIAN MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; NON-GAUSSIAN STOCHASTIC FIELDS AND PROCESSES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; SPECTRAL DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATION METHOD; TRANSLATION FIELDS AND PROCESSES;

TRELLIS CODES;

EID: 50849098167     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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