United States, September 15, 2011

Course: NIA is proud to present this ERCOFTAC organized
course to the US uncertainty quantification community. A
previous version of the course was presented in Munich,
Germany on March 3-4, 2011. The course has been organized
by Dr. Charles Hirsch. The US delivery is coordinated by
Dr. Bernard Grossman of NIA.

Registration and further information
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Description:

 

Historically, chief engineers and project managers have  

estimated and managed risk using mostly human judgment  

founded upon years of experience and heritage. As the 21st  

century begins to unfold, the design and engineering of  

products as well as the control of plant and process are  

increasingly relying on computer models and simulation.  

This era of virtual design and engineering opens the  

opportunity to deal with uncertainty in a systematic formal  

way by which sensitivities to various uncertainties can be  

quantified and understood, and designs and processes  

optimized so as to be robust against such uncertainties.  

Human judgment will always play an important role, but  

leading companies in many fields of engineering are  

increasingly aware of these possibilities and uncertainty  

quantification is beginning to feature strongly in their  

strategic aspirations. Thus this is a very opportune moment  

to introduce a two- day awareness course on this emerging  

topic. The aim is to share the aspirations and requirements  

of leading companies in the fields of aerospace, energy,  

transport and chemical process; review emerging methods and  

techniques and how these are being deployed; and define the  

current state-of-the-art and map out-near term future  

possibilities. 

 

Uncertainty quantification has become a critical feature of  

a computational methodologies which will be utilized within  

an engineering design process. There has been considerable  

progress in this field at both the national and  

international level. The purpose of this two-day short  

course is to bring some the most promising approaches and  

developments in this field to the attention of researchers  

and engineers from academia, industry and research  

laboratories. 

 

A recent development has been a short course arranged by  

Dr. Charles Hirsch of Belgium, who has organized an  

ERCOFTAC short course, entitled �Uncertaintly Management  

and Quantification in Industrial Analysis and Design� which  

was delivered in Munich, Germany on March 3-4, 2011.  

ERCOFTAC is a European-based association of research,  

education and industry groups in the technology of flow,  

turbulence and combustion. The name stands for European  

Research Community on Flow, Combustion and Turbulence. Dr.  

Hirsch is the President of NUMECA International, a CFD  

software firm. He is also a Professor Emeritus of the  

Faculty of Applied Sciences of Vrije Universiteit Brussel  

and is an internationally-known expert in CFD. 

 

Speakers: 

·      Prof. Charles Hirsch, Numeca International, Belgium 

·      Prof. Anthony Hutton, Chairman, ERCOFTAC, UK 

·      Dr. Alberto Pasanisi, EDF, France 

·      Dr. Bernhard Eisfeld, DLR, Germany 

·      Dr. Jacques Peter, ONERA, France 

·      Dr. Gilbert Roge, Dassault-Aviation, France 

·      Dr. Allain Dervieux, INRIA, France 

·      Dr. Thomas Zang, NASA Langley Research Center, USA 

·      Dr. Andrew Booker, The Boeing Company, USA 

·      Prof. George Karniadakis, Brown University, USA 

·      Dr. Karl Alexander, Rolls Royce, USA 

 

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