...), the method used here exploits a direct nonlinear numerical model associated with a parameter estimation technique to determine temperature dependent thermal conductivities. It has been applied to a water-agar gel during phase change and the thermal conductivities within the corresponding temperature interval...

..., Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics , Vol. 2b , Oxford University , Oxford, UK . [13] Emery , A. F. , Bardot , D. , and Valenti , E. , 2007 , “ Using Bayesian Inference for Parameter Estimation When the System Response and Experimental Conditions are Measured With Error and Some...

..., which take advantage of the robustness of the stochastic methods and of the fast convergence of the deterministic methods [( 30 )]. Inverse parameter estimation problems in heat transfer can be very ill-conditioned, creating...

... in handling function estimation problems and BKM for parameter estimation problems. One of the unique features about the present method is that the correlation among the separate unknowns does not disrupt the convergence of the problem. Numerical experiments using measurement errors are performed to verify...

... with vectorial descent parameter. The experimental example developed herein uses one set of good data obtained by Beck and Arnold ( 1977, Parameter Estimation in Engineering and Science, Wiley, New York ). For this case, two measured temperatures in the solid are used to illustrate combined estimation...

..., particularly to those interested in parameter estimation, than simply knowing the global sensitivity, a more practical approach is to generate the Gaussian process first. However, this requires the determination of the hyperparameters, which for some problems may be difficult or expensive ( 11 ). In this case...

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...Ashley F. Emery Parameter estimation is based upon a comparison of predicted deterministic model responses to data. The models are often numerical, e.g., finite volume, with intrinsic inaccuracies. In addition, the models typically assume a full knowledge of the physical processes. By using...

... TRANSFER . Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division September 4, 2001; revision received November 1, 2002. Associate Editor: G. S. Dulikravich. 04 September 2001 01 November 2002 21 03 2003 inverse problems parameter estimation heat transfer shape measurement...

... July 2, 2002. Associate Editor: A. F. Emery. 24 August 2001 02 July 2002 03 12 2002 information theory sampling methods parameter estimation Information Parameter Estimation Correlated Data Uncertainty Experiments are often performed to prove the accuracy...

... applications, such as parameter estimation, optimal experimental design, optimization, and uncertainty analysis, require sensitivity to the parameters describing temperature-dependent properties. A general procedure to compute the sensitivity of the temperature field to model parameters for nonlinear heat...