“…Because the metamodel in [42] was created from expensive numerical computations, particular attention was paid to the selection of a suitable metamodeling technique. Among a variety of methods evaluated [42,52] it was found that a variant of the Kriging method [48,[53][54][55], the Modified Bayesian Kriging Method (MBKG) [56,57] constructed accurate and smooth surrogates from a minimum number of mesoscale simulations. The MBKG method was used to construct surrogates for the drag on particle clusters as a function of Mach Number,…”