Modeling and Simulation : Challenges and Best Practices for Industry

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"This book enables those working in modeling and simulation, to look at best practices from various disciplines, so that project leaders, managers, and engineers, can apply the non-technical and technical best practices to their work. A case example runs throughout the book, showing the modeling of a refrigerator cooling system. This reveals mistakes that can be made, and explains how to avoid them by using a step-by-step process for the model building process. The aim of the book is to bring answers to those questions in a synthetic and transversal manner, so that future challenges are not seen as a threat, but as an opportunity to create better designs."--Provided by publisher. Read more... Abstract: "This book enables those working in modeling and simulation, to look at best practices from various disciplines, so that project leaders, managers, and engineers, can apply the non-technical and technical best practices to their work. A case example runs throughout the book, showing the modeling of a refrigerator cooling system. This reveals mistakes that can be made, and explains how to avoid them by using a step-by-step process for the model building process. The aim of the book is to bring answers to those questions in a synthetic and transversal manner, so that future challenges are not seen as a threat, but as an opportunity to create better designs."--Provided by publisher Content: Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Foreword Special Thanks Contents About the Author Introduction Why This Book? Who Is This Book For? (To Be Read First If You Are in a Hurry) What Industries Is This Work Concerned With? 1: What Is Numerical Simulation? 1.1 What Is a Model? 1.2 What Is a Simulation? 1.3 What Are Modeling and Numerical Simulations? 1.4 What Is a State Representation? 1.5 What Is the Value of Numerical Simulation? 2: A Bit of History 2.1 Before 1940 2.2 From 1940 to 1960: The First Steps of Numerical Simulation 2.3 From 1960 to 1980: The Evolution of Numerical Simulation2.4 From 1980 to 1995: The Revolution of Numerical Simulation 2.5 From 1995 to 2015: The Spread of Numerical Simulation 2.6 Three Lessons from History 3: Numerical Simulation in Industry: Why? 3.1 Why Expand Simulation? 3.1.1 A Predictive Tool… 3.1.2 …That Is Profitable 3.2 Contributions of Simulation 3.2.1 The Modeling Iceberg 3.2.2 Eight Levers of Value Creation 3.2.2.1 Two Intrinsic Benefits 3.2.2.2 Six Economic Contributions 3.3 Simulation Costs and Limits 3.3.1 Costs of Simulation 3.3.2 Limits to Simulation 3.3.2.1 Limit 1: Precision Level of Simulations3.3.2.2 Limit 2: Technical Feasibility of Simulations 3.4 Deciding Whether to Use Simulation or Not 4: Efficient Use of Numerical Simulation: Technical Aspects 4.1 Different Kinds of Numerical Simulations 4.2 Five Steps to Expand Numerical Simulation 4.3 Eight Technical Best Practices 4.3.1  Best Practice 1: Defining the Objective 4.3.2  Best Practice 2: Including Sufficient and Necessary Physical Phenomena 4.3.3  Best Practice 3: Converting into Equations and Configuring the Model 4.3.4  Best Practice 4: Picking the Software 4.3.5  Best Practice 5: Managing the Numerical and IT Issues4.3.6  Best Practice 6: Managing the Validity Level of the Results 4.3.7  Best Practice 7: Producing Useful Results 4.3.8  Best Practice 8: Maintaining and Storing the Models 4.3.8.1 How to Handle Model Maintenance 4.3.8.2  How to Handle Model Storage 5: Efficient Use of Numerical Simulation: Organizational Aspects 5.1 Stakeholders 5.2 Eight Organizational Best Practices 5.2.1 Best Practice 1: Leading Change Related to Numerical Simulation 5.2.2 Best Practice 2: Defining a Numerical Simulation Expansion Strategy 5.2.3 Best Practice 3: Managing Communication for Numerical Simulation5.2.4 Best Practice 4: Provide Any Necessary Means to Numerical Simulation 5.2.5 Best Practice 5: Industrializing Numerical Simulation 5.2.6 Best Practice 6: Managing the Numerical Simulation-Related Skills 5.2.6.1 How to Recruit the Right People 5.2.6.2 How to Allocate and Gather Those Skills 5.2.6.3 How to Retain and Convey These Skills 5.2.7 Best Practice 7: Managing the Models Expansion 5.2.7.1 Technical Issues 5.2.7.2 Nontechnical Issues 5.2.7.3 Virtues of Open Models