History Matching and Robust Design through Subset Simulation



Gong, Zitong, DiazDelaO, Francisco Alejandro, Hristov, Peter ORCID: 0000-0002-3302-686X and Beer, Michael ORCID: 0000-0002-0611-0345
(2021) History Matching and Robust Design through Subset Simulation. International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, 11 (5). pp. 19-38.

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Abstract

Computational cost often hinders the calibration of complex computer models. In this context, history matching (HM) is becoming a widespread calibration strategy, with applications in many disciplines. HM uses a statistical approxi-mation, also known as an emulator, to the model output, in order to mitigate computational cost. The process starts with an observation of a physical system. It then produces progressively more accurate emulators to determine a non-implausible domain: a subset of the input space that provides a good agreement between the model output and the data, conditional on the model structure, the sources of uncertainty, and an implausibility measure. In HM, it is essential to generate samples from the nonimplausible domain, in order to run the model and train the emulator until a stopping condition is met. However, this sampling can be very challenging, since the nonimplausible domain can become orders of magnitude smaller than the original input space very quickly. This paper proposes a solution to this problem using subset simulation, a rare event sampling technique that works efficiently in high dimensions. The proposed approach is demonstrated via calibration and robust design examples from the field of aerospace engineering.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: history matching, subset simulation, Gaussian process emulation, robust design
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 10 May 2021 09:24
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 22:48
DOI: 10.1615/int.j.uncertaintyquantification.2021033543
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3122181