TY - CHAP AU - Domenico De Luca AU - Simone Di Pasquale AU - Marco Cherubini AU - Alessandro Petruzzi AU - Gianni Bruna ED - Francisco Bulnes ED - Jan Peter Hessling Y1 - 2021-06-07 PY - 2021 T1 - International Benchmark Activity in the Field of Sodium Fast Reactors N2 - A numerical simulation is a computing calculation following a program that develops a mathematical model for a physical, social, economic, or biological system. Numerical simulations are required for analyzing and studying the behavior of systems whose mathematical models are very complex, as in the case of nonlinear systems. Capturing the resulting uncertainty of models based on uncertain parameters and constraints in confidence intervals (1-D), or more generally (>1-D) confidence regions, is very common for expressing to which degree the computed result is believed to be consistent with possible values of the targeted observable. This book examines the different methods used in numerical simulations, including adaptive and stochastic methods as well as finite element analysis research. This work is accompanied by studies of confidence regions, often utilized to express the credibility of such calculations and simulations. BT - Recent Advances in Numerical Simulations SP - Ch. 14 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97812 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.97812 SN - 978-1-83968-169-1 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-11 ER -