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PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION
Department of Scientific Computing
REPORT NUMBERFlorida State University
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AFOSR
SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT NUMBER(S)AFRL-OSR-VA-TR-2012-0282
DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
A
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ABSTRACTComputational simulation-based predictions are central to science and engineering and to risk assessment and decision making in economics, public policy, and military venues, including several of importance to Air Force missions. Unfortunately, predictions are often fraught with uncertainty so that effective means for quantifying that uncertainty are of pararuount importance. The research effort investigates and resolves important algorithmic, mathematical, and practical issues related to the efficient, accurate, and robust computational determination of the quantities of interest used by engineers and decision makers that are determined from solutions of partial differential equations.
1S. SUBJECT TERMS
ADVANCED NUMERICAL METHODS FOR COMPUTING STATISTICAL QUANTITIES OF INTEREST FROM SOLUTIONS OF SPDESFINAL REPORT -FA9550-08-1-0415
Max Gunzburger Department of Scientific ComputingFlorida State University gunzburg@fsu.edu
AbstractComputational simulation-based predictions are central to science and engineering and to risk assessment and decision making in economics, public policy, and military venues, including several of importance to Air Force missions. Unfortunately, predictions are often fraught with uncertainty so that effective means for quantifying that uncertainty are of paramount importance. The research effort investigates and resolves important algorithmic, mathematical, and practical issues related to the efficient, accurate, and robust computational determination of the quantities of interest used by engineers and decision makers that are determined from solutions of partial differential equations having random inputs. Notable accomplishments include the development of a novel approach to discretizing white noise and its application to the stochastic Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq system; development of efficient methods for solving high-dimensional backward stochastic differential equations;...