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Intelligent automated quality control for computational simulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Andrew Gelsey
Andrew Gelsey
Affiliation:
Computer Science Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Computational simulation of physical systems generally requires human experts to set up a simulation, run it, evaluate the quality of the simulation output, and repeatedly invoke the simulator with modified input until a satisfactory output quality is achieved. This reliance on human experts makes use of simulators by other programs difficult and unreliable, though invocation of simulators by other programs is critical for important tasks such as automated engineering design optimization. Presented is a framework for constructing intelligent controllers for computational simulators that can automatically detect a wide variety of problems that lead to low-quality simulation output, using a set of evaluation methods based on knowledge of physics and numerical analysis stored in a data/knowledgebase of models and simulations. An experimental implementation of this framework in an intelligent automated controller for a widely used computational fluid dynamics simulator is described.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)SimulationComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)Design Optimization

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AI EDAM , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , November 1995 , pp. 387 - 400
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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