American Society of Mechanics Engineers
Council on Codes and Standards
Board on Performance Test Codes
Committee
#60Verification and Validation in Computational Solid Mechanics
Last Updated: 04 Feb 2005
ASME Codes and Standards Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines:
 | C&S Writing Guide 2000 (link to 53 page PDF) |
| ANSI Accredited Procedures (link to 23 page PDF) |
| Manual for Codes and Standards Development (link to 94 page PDF) |
| Board on Performance Test Codes Procedures (1.78MB PDF) |
Presentations by Committee Members:
| January 2005 - IMAC XXIII Conference on Structural Dynamics, Orlando FL (187KB PDF) |
Books:
Highly recommend, Dr. Patrick Roache's book,
"Verification and Validation in Computational Science and Engineering" (1998).
The extensive Table of Contents is available online:
http://kumo.swcp.com/hermosa/html/vvcse.html
and the book can be purchased online:
http://kumo.swcp.com/hermosa/html/book_store.html
Guidelines:
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AIAA Standards "Guide for the Verification and Validation of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations" (AIAA G-077-1998) http://www.aiaa.org/information/professional/standards/standards-sale.html |
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| Guidelines for Sandia ASCI
Verification and Validation Plans - Content and Format: Version 2.0 (SAND2000-3101 Dec 00) |
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| V&V report titled "ERCOFTAC Special Interest Group on Quality and Trust in Industrial CFD: Best Practices Guide" can be found under the link for ERCOFTAC Publications: http://ercoftac.mech.surrey.ac.uk/ This excellent report builds on the terminology and principles in the AIAA V&V Guide, but it goes into much more detail on "how to" in fluid dynamics. |
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| VV&A Recommended Practices Guide , Modeling and Simulation Information Analysis Center (MSIAC) is a Department of Defense Information Analysis Center, sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center and the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office. |
Reports:
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"Verification & Validation (V&V) Methodology and Quantitative Reliability at Confidence: Basis for an Investment Strategy," Roger Logan and Cynthia Nitta, December 2002 (UCRL-ID-150874) [PDF 2.2MB] |
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"Description of the Sandia Validation Metrics Project," Trucano, et al. July 2001 (SAND2001-1339) [PDF 640KB] |
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" Code Verification by the Method of Manufactured Solutions," Salari and Knupp June 2000 (SAND2000-1444) [PDF 6MB] |
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"Estimation of Total Uncertainty in Modeling and Simulation," Oberkampf, et al. April 2000 (SAND2000-0824) [PDF 1.9MB] |
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"National Standards Strategy for the United States," American National Standards Institute (ANSI), August, 2000. [PDF 205KB] (Also see associated ANSI web page http://web.ansi.org/public/nss.html) |
Case Studies:
| "Grid Convergence in Several Simple Problems," [197KB PDF] Don Simons, (Presented at the V&V Symposium 2 Aug 01 USACM Congress, Dearborn MI) Analytical Solution [43KB PDF] and FORTRAN Source [11KB text] for Mindlin Plate example. |
Links:
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| Joint Accreditation Support Activity (JASA):
http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~jasa
(check out the "VV&A Process Documentation and other reports" in the "Library" section)
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| "Simulation Interoperability Workshop" (SIW)
of the "Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization" (SISO)
[http://siso.sc.ist.ucf.edu/]
"Development and Documentation of a Simulation Conceptual Model" by Dale Pace. Many other papers related to VV&A are also online at the SISO site. |
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| NASA V&V the
following website is a good starting point.
http://research.ivv.nasa.gov/resources/vv_links.html
For formal methods pertinent to V&V, you might want to visit the following NASA website. http://eis.jpl.nasa.gov/quality/Formal_Methods/program.html |
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| The International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community,
or NAFEMS
organization, http://www.nafems.org/,
main effort is creating benchmark
problems. |
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| European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC): http://lmfwww.epfl.ch/lmf/ERCOFTAC/ |
Mailing Lists:
You may also want to investigate the following sites with their V&V mailing list if you are not already familiar with them:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vnvcsm (ASME BPTC #60 Committee on V&V in CSM)