Analytical Systems Engineering Advanced Mathematics

Abstract

This effort was concerned with identifying and assessing the primary technical barriers and risks that must be overcome to establish fast computational methods for uncertainty analysis in large models of interconnected components in which the shape of system-level dynamics is important. The results of this study show tremendous promise for computationally efficient methods for propagating uncertainty. Numerous approaches were investigated on problems ranging from the control of afterburner combustion instabilities to modeling organic molecules and DNA. This contract also resulted in a highly successful workshop on the Design of Dynamical Systems Robust to Uncertainty, engaging experts from international communities. The following papers are appended to this report: "Propagation of Uncertain Inputs through Networks of Nonlinear Components;" "Graph Decomposition Methods for Uncertainty Propagation in Complex, Nonlinear Interconnected Dynamical Systems;" "Spectral Balance: A Frequency Domain Framework for Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems;" "An Iterative Method for Propagation of Probability Distributions in Feedback Systems;" "Uncertainty in the Dynamics of Conservative Maps;" "Dynamics in Molecular Modelling and the Scope for Uncertainty Analysis by Dellnitz-Preis and Polynomial Chaos Methods;" and "Symmetry-Breaking and Uncertainty Propagation in a Reduced Order Thermo-acoustic Model." (51 refs. following main report)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 29, 2004
Accession Number
ADA424132

Entities

People

  • Andrzej Banaszuk
  • Robert E. Labarre

Organizations

  • United Technologies Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Combustion
  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Control Systems
  • Density Functional Theory
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineers
  • Gas Turbines
  • Mechanics
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Random Variables
  • Systems Engineering
  • Turbines

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation