A Parallel Krylov-Based Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Procedure

2012 ◽  
Vol 172 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. T. Evans ◽  
D. G. Cacuci
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Analysis Procedure ◽  
Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Adjoint Sensitivity

scholarly journals Approaches, Relevant Topics, and Internal Method for Uncertainty Evaluation in Predictions of Thermal-Hydraulic System Codes

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Petruzzi ◽  
Francesco D'Auria
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Analysis Procedure ◽  
Uncertainty Evaluation ◽  
Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Adjoint Sensitivity ◽  
Safety Margins ◽  
Accident Scenarios ◽  
The One ◽  
Uncertainty Method

The evaluation of uncertainty constitutes the necessary supplement of best-estimate calculations performed to understand accident scenarios in water-cooled nuclear reactors. The needs come from the imperfection of computational tools, on the one side, and the interest in using such a tool to get more precise evaluation of safety margins. The paper reviews the salient features of three independent approaches for estimating uncertainties associated with predictions of complex system codes. Namely, the propagations of code input error and calculation output error constitute the keywords for identifying the methods of current interest for industrial applications, while the adjoint sensitivity-analysis procedure and the global adjoint sensitivity-analysis procedure, extended to performing uncertainty evaluation in conjunction with concepts from data adjustment and assimilation, constitute the innovative approach. Throughout the developed methods, uncertainty bands can be derived (both upper and lower) for any desired quantity of the transient of interest. For one case, the uncertainty method is coupled with the thermal-hydraulic code to get the code with capability of internal assessment of uncertainty, whose features are discussed in more detail.

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