BibTeX
@INCOLLECTION{
         Younes2012HOU,
       title = "High-Order Uncertainty Propagation Enabled by Computational Differentiation",
       doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-30023-3_23",
       author = "Ahmad Bani Younes and James Turner and Manoranjan Majji and John Junkins",
       abstract = "Modeling and simulation for complex applications in science and engineering develop
         behavior predictions based on mechanical loads. Imprecise knowledge of the model parameters or
         external force laws alters the system response from the assumed nominal model data. As a result, one
         seeks algorithms for generating insights into the range of variability that can be the expected due
         to model uncertainty. Two issues complicate approaches for handling model uncertainty. First, most
         systems are fundamentally nonlinear, which means that closed-form solutions are not available for
         predicting the response or designing control and/or estimation strategies. Second, series
         approximations are usually required, which demands that partial derivative models are available.
         Both of these issues have been significant barriers to previous researchers, who have been forced to
         invoke computationally intensive Monte-Carlo methods to gain insight into a system’s
         nonlinear behavior through a massive sampling process. These barriers are overcome by introducing
         three strategies: (1) Computational differentiation that automatically builds exact partial
         derivative models; (2) Map initial uncertainty models into instantaneous uncertainty models by
         building a series-based state transition tensor model; and (3) Compute an approximate probability
         distribution function by solving the Liouville equation using the state transition tensor model. The
         resulting nonlinear probability distribution function (PDF) represents a Liouville approximation for
         the stochastic Fokker-Planck equation. Several applications are presented that demonstrate the
         effectiveness of the proposed mathematical developments. The general modeling methodology is
         expected to be broadly useful for science and engineering applications in general, as well as grand
         challenge problems that exist at the frontiers of computational science and mathematics.",
       pages = "251--260",
       crossref = "Forth2012RAi",
       booktitle = "Recent Advances in Algorithmic Differentiation",
       series = "Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering",
       publisher = "Springer",
       address = "Berlin",
       volume = "87",
       editor = "Shaun Forth and Paul Hovland and Eric Phipps and Jean Utke and Andrea Walther",
       isbn = "978-3-540-68935-5",
       issn = "1439-7358",
       year = "2012",
       ad_theotech = "Higher Order, Uncertainties"
}