Engineering design is a systematic process of identifying needs and their translation into functional systems. This is a cyclic process that alternates between the acquisition of data and the synthesis of said data to inform design decisions. Conventionally, data from physical experiments are used to explore the efficacy of alternative...
Modern design practices rely more and more on computer simulations due to their low cost compared with physical experiments. However, it is still an elusive task to fully unleash the advantages of the simulation models while mitigating their disadvantages for designing complex engineering systems. In simulation-based design, computer simulation models...
Traditionally, simulation analysis has focused on designing a computationally efficient algorithm assuming a correct simulation model is given. As computation becomes cheaper, we are now able to perform more sophisticated simulation analyses involving extensive computation and consider all sources of errors in the simulation model and their effects to the...
