4 research outputs found
A Generalized Probabilistic Learning Approach for Multi-Fidelity Uncertainty Propagation in Complex Physical Simulations
Two of the most significant challenges in uncertainty propagation pertain to
the high computational cost for the simulation of complex physical models and
the high dimension of the random inputs. In applications of practical interest
both of these problems are encountered and standard methods for uncertainty
quantification either fail or are not feasible. To overcome the current
limitations, we propose a probabilistic multi-fidelity framework that can
exploit lower-fidelity model versions of the original problem in a small data
regime. The approach circumvents the curse of dimensionality by learning
dependencies between the outputs of high-fidelity models and lower-fidelity
models instead of explicitly accounting for the high-dimensional inputs. We
complement the information provided by a low-fidelity model with a
low-dimensional set of informative features of the stochastic input, which are
discovered by employing a combination of supervised and unsupervised
dimensionality reduction techniques. The goal of our analysis is an efficient
and accurate estimation of the full probabilistic response for a high-fidelity
model. Despite the incomplete and noisy information that low-fidelity
predictors provide, we demonstrate that accurate and certifiable estimates for
the quantities of interest can be obtained in the small data regime, i.e., with
significantly fewer high-fidelity model runs than state-of-the-art methods for
uncertainty propagation. We illustrate our approach by applying it to
challenging numerical examples such as Navier-Stokes flow simulations and
monolithic fluid-structure interaction problems.Comment: 31 pages, 14 figure
Tumour growth: An approach to calibrate parameters of a multiphase porous media model based on in vitro observations of Neuroblastoma spheroid growth in a hydrogel microenvironment
To unravel processes that lead to the growth of solid tumours, it is necessary to link knowledge of cancer biology with the physical properties of the tumour and its interaction with the surrounding microenvironment. Our understanding of the underlying mechanisms is however still imprecise. We therefore developed computational physics-based models, which incorporate the interaction of the tumour with its surroundings based on the theory of porous media. However, the experimental validation of such models represents a challenge to its clinical use as a prognostic tool. This study combines a physics-based model with in vitro experiments based on microfluidic devices used to mimic a three-dimensional tumour microenvironment. By conducting a global sensitivity analysis, we identify the most influential input parameters and infer their posterior distribution based on Bayesian calibration. The resulting probability density is in agreement with the scattering of the experimental data and thus validates the proposed workflow. This study demonstrates the huge challenges associated with determining precise parameters with usually only limited data for such complex processes and models, but also demonstrates in general how to indirectly characterise the mechanical properties of neuroblastoma spheroids that cannot feasibly be measured experimentally
Bayesian calibration of coupled computational mechanics models under uncertainty based on interface deformation
Calibration or parameter identification is used with computational mechanics
models related to observed data of the modeled process to find model parameters
such that good similarity between model prediction and observation is achieved.
We present a Bayesian calibration approach for surface coupled problems in
computational mechanics based on measured deformation of an interface when no
displacement data of material points is available. The interpretation of such a
calibration problem as a statistical inference problem, in contrast to
deterministic model calibration, is computationally more robust and allows the
analyst to find a posterior distribution over possible solutions rather than a
single point estimate. The proposed framework also enables the consideration of
unavoidable uncertainties that are present in every experiment and are expected
to play an important role in the model calibration process. To mitigate the
computational costs of expensive forward model evaluations, we propose to learn
the log-likelihood function from a controllable amount of parallel simulation
runs using Gaussian process regression. We introduce and specifically study the
effect of three different discrepancy measures for deformed interfaces between
reference data and simulation. We show that a statistically based discrepancy
measure results in the most expressive posterior distribution. We further apply
the approach to numerical examples in higher model parameter dimensions and
interpret the resulting posterior under uncertainty. In the examples, we
investigate coupled multi-physics models of fluid-structure interaction effects
in biofilms and find that the model parameters affect the results in a coupled
manner