Title

Inverse Simulation - An Error Analysis

Authors

Authors

K. C. Lin;P. Lu

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Simulation

Keywords

inverse simulation; error analysis; numerical procedure; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Computer Science, ; Software Engineering

Abstract

This paper analyzes the numerical errors of two inverse simulation algorithms: differentiation inverse method and integration inverse method. The differential inverse method uses numerical differentiation as a key step, and the step size used for numerical differentiation directly impacts on the simulation results. This paper proposes a global error measure to evaluate the accuracy of the inverse simulation, instead of relying on the conventional local truncation errors. While the integration inverse method avoids numerical differentiation, it is pointed out that there is another numerical instability problem the integration inverse method may encounter when there are uncontrolled variables in the simulation. Examples are provided to facilitate the discussion.

Journal Title

Simulation

Volume

65

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

385

Last Page

392

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1995TW53000002

ISSN

0037-5497

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