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DDM-Uncertainties

Objectives

The activity on uncertainty quantification at CERFACS aims to estimate uncertainties for numerical models requiring large computational resources. We develop environmental risk assessments, data assimilation approaches, probabilistic optimization and coupling improvements for High Performance Computing applications.

At CERFACS, the activity on uncertainty quantification relates to the transversal axis “Data-Driven Modeling” and is at the crossroads of the Environment, Climate, Aerodynamics and Combustion thematic axes. Applications at CERFACS concern flood forecasting, prediction of atmospheric dispersion of pollutants, wildfire propagation, representation of climatic variability and combustion chamber ignition calculations.

The main actions are :

  • Ensemble-based simulations with scalar and functional variables, including dimension reduction strategy
  • Development and evaluation of reduced models for large scale problems
  • Use of reduced models for sensitivity analysis, optimization and data assimilation
  • Development of efficient algorithms for stochastic estimation with solvers of increasing complexity (multi-fidelity, multi-level Monte Carlo/MLMC)

These actions are deployed on the following applications:

  • Development of uncertainty quantification algorithms for real scale computation with efficient, scalable and robust domain decomposition algorithms
  • Development of reduced models for sensitivity analysis and ensemble data assimilation, application in hydraulics and aerodynamics for large uncertain variables
  • Application of reduced models for atmospheric boundary layer simulations in the context of uncertainty quantification, application to micro-scale meteorology and in particular to pollutant dispersion
  • Application of multi-fidelity and MLMC algorithms for industrial computational fluid mechanics, multidisciplinary systems and geosciences.
  • Parametric sensitivity tests of global climate model projections to assess uncertainties in regional and global climate risks
  • Simple climate models to assess data constraints on global climate projection uncertainty

Collaboration

EDFLISNIRTONERA
AirbusCMAPInriaMétéo-France

NEWS

ISAF project : To accelerate the transition to SAFs, SAFRAN and CERFACS have together obtained an allocation of 44 million CPU hours on the LUMI-C super-computer as part of the EuroHPC Regular Access call in November 2022.

CERFACS |  11 March 2023

The objective of the ISAF project is to study the impact of SAFs (Sustainable Aviation Fuels) on engine operation and pollutant emissions, using high-fidelity Large Eddy Simulations (LES). The methodology developed at CERFACS combines Analytically Reduced Chemistry (ARC) with a multi-component evaporation model to capture the effect of fuel. The target configurations range from academic burners (CRSB at CORIA, SSB at DLR Stuttgart), to isolated industrial injection systems (MICADO at ONERA, HERON at CORIA) and complete annular combustor configurations (BEARCAT at SAFRAN, NTNU test bench).Read more


A CERFACS article distinguished in Scilight (https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0017474)

CERFACS |  9 March 2023

The recently published paper in Physics of Plasma: "3D particle-in-cell study of the electron drift instability in a Hall Thruster using unstructured grids," by W. Villafana, B. Cuenot, and O. Vermorel ( attracted the attention of Scilight (), whose goal is to present the most interesting research in the physical sciences published in AIP journals."Read more

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