Modern Monte Carlo methods for efficient uncertainty quantification and propagation: A survey

J Zhang - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) includes the characterization, integration, and propagation of
uncertainties that result from stochastic variations and a lack of knowledge or data in the …

Information reuse for importance sampling in reliability-based design optimization

A Chaudhuri, B Kramer, KE Willcox - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a new approach for importance-sampling-based reliability-based
design optimization (RBDO) that reuses information from past optimization iterations to …

An efficient, globally convergent method for optimization under uncertainty using adaptive model reduction and sparse grids

MJ Zahr, KT Carlberg, DP Kouri - SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty …, 2019 - SIAM
This work introduces a new method to efficiently solve optimization problems constrained by
partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain coefficients. The method leverages two …

Surrogate modeling for efficiently, accurately and conservatively estimating measures of risk

JD Jakeman, DP Kouri, JG Huerta - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a surrogate modeling framework for conservatively estimating measures of risk
from limited realizations of an expensive physical experiment or computational simulation …

Certifiable risk-based engineering design optimization

A Chaudhuri, B Kramer, M Norton, JO Royset, K Willcox - AIAA Journal, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
Reliable, risk-averse design of complex engineering systems with optimized performance
requires dealing with uncertainties. A conventional approach is to add safety margins to a …

An interior-point approach for solving risk-averse PDE-constrained optimization problems with coherent risk measures

S Garreis, TM Surowiec, M Ulbrich - SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2021 - SIAM
The prevalence of uncertainty in models of engineering and the natural sciences
necessitates the inclusion of random parameters in the underlying partial differential …

On the latent dimension of deep autoencoders for reduced order modeling of PDEs parametrized by random fields

NR Franco, D Fraulin, A Manzoni, P Zunino - Advances in Computational …, 2024 - Springer
Deep Learning is having a remarkable impact on the design of Reduced Order Models
(ROMs) for Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), where it is exploited as a powerful tool for …

Context-aware surrogate modeling for balancing approximation and sampling costs in multifidelity importance sampling and Bayesian inverse problems

T Alsup, B Peherstorfer - SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, 2023 - SIAM
Multifidelity methods leverage low-cost surrogate models to speed up computations and
make occasional recourse to expensive high-fidelity models to establish accuracy …

Generalized polynomial chaos expansion by reanalysis using static condensation based on substructuring

D Lee, S Chang, J Lee - Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents a new computational method for forward uncertainty quantification (UQ)
analyses on large-scale structural systems in the presence of arbitrary and dependent …

Optimal Neumann boundary control of a vibrating string with uncertain initial data and probabilistic terminal constraints

MH Farshbaf-Shaker, M Gugat, H Heitsch… - SIAM Journal on Control …, 2020 - SIAM
In optimal control problems, often initial data are required that are not known exactly in
practice. In order to take into account this uncertainty, we consider optimal control problems …