Description
Leader of the group Scientific Computing: Daan Crommelin.
The SC groups develops efficient mathematical methods to simulate and predict real-world phenomena with inherent uncertainties. Such uncertainties arise from e.g. uncertain model parameters, chaotic dynamics or intrinsic randomness, and can have major impact on model outputs and predictions. Our work is targeted in particular at applications in climate, energy, and finance. In these vital areas, the ability to assess uncertainties and their impact on model predictions is of paramount importance. Expertise in the SC group includes uncertainty quantification, data assimilation, stochastic multiscale modeling and risk assessment. The availability of data to inform and improve simulations and predictions, for example through learning and data-driven modeling, plays an important role in our research.
Vacancies
No vacancies currently.
News

Smart mobility start-up Skialabs launched by CWI researchers
Traffic flows in cities could be managed much more efficiently thanks to cutting-edge technology pioneered by the new start-up Skialabs. By using huge dataflows collected in cities, the Skialabs platform provides a real-time view on the mobility flows in the city. This allows creating cost-effective and sustainable mobility services that react instantly to the demands of the end-users.

Extreme events better investigated with new math method
Fortunately, incidents like extreme weather, earthquakes or massive power grid blackouts are a rare occurrence. Analysing properly how likely such rare incidents are to happen can be very valuable, but also very challenging. In his PhD thesis, Krzysztof Bisewski developed mathematical methods that greatly speed up simulations for estimating the probability of rare events.

New data framework illuminates uncertainties in offshore wind farm conditions
Wind speeds and wave heights can have a major effect on offshore wind farms. But because they are correlated, their combined significance for wind farm designs couldn’t be factored in until now. CWI researcher Anne Eggels developed methods which take the effect of such correlations or dependencies into account. Today, she will publicly defend her thesis at the University of Amsterdam.

Scientists develop detailed representation of clouds in weather and climate models
A team of climate researchers and computational experts has developed an innovative method to study cloud dynamics in unprecedented detail in weather and climate models.
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Publications
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van den Bos, L.M.M, & Sanderse, B. (2021). A geometrical interpretation of the addition of nodes to an interpolatory quadrature rule while preserving positive weights. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 391. doi:10.1016/j.cam.2021.113430
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Salvador Mancho, B, & Oosterlee, C.W. (2021). Total value adjustment for a stochastic volatility model. A comparison with the Black–Scholes model. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 391. doi:10.1016/j.amc.2020.125489
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Verheul, N, & Crommelin, D.T. (2021). Stochastic parametrization with VARX processes. Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 16(1), 33–57. doi:10.2140/CAMCOS.2021.16.33
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Kumar, P, Sanderse, B, Boorsma, K, & Caboni, M. (2020). Global sensitivity analysis of model uncertainty in aeroelastic wind turbine models. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1618/4/042034
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Wright, D.W, Richardson, R.A, Edeling, W.N, Lakhlili, J, Sinclair, R, Jancauskas, V, … Coveney, P.V. (2020). Building Confidence in Simulation: Applications of EasyVVUQ. Advanced Theory and Simulations, 3(8). doi:10.1002/adts.201900246
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Rens, E.G, Zeegers, M.T, Rabbers, I, Szabó, A, & Merks, R.M.H. (2020). Autocrine inhibition of cell motility can drive epithelial branching morphogenesis in the absence of growth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1807). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0386
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Wing, A, Stauffer, L, Becker, T, Reed, K.A, Ahn, M.-S, Arnold, N.P, … Zhao, M. (2020). Clouds and convective self‐aggregation in a multimodel ensemble of radiative‐convective equilibrium simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(9). doi:10.1029/2020MS002138
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van den Oord, G, Jansson, F.R, Pelupessy, F.I, Chertova, M, Grönqvist, J.H, Siebesma, A.P, & Crommelin, D.T. (2020). A Python interface to the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation. SoftwareX, 12. doi:10.1016/j.softx.2020.100608
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Gugole, F, & Franzke, C.L.E. (2020). Spatial covariance modeling for stochastic subgrid-scale parameterizations using dynamic mode decomposition. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12. doi:10.1029/2020MS002115
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Richardson, R.A, Wright, D.W, Edeling, W.N, Jancauskas, V, Lakhlili, J, & Coveney, P.V. (2020). EasyVVUQ: A library for verification, validation and uncertainty quantification in high performance computing. Journal of Open Research Software, 8(1), 1–8. doi:10.5334/JORS.303
Current projects with external funding
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Valuation Adjustments for Improved Risk Management (ABC-EU-XVA)
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Physics based ICT: The digital twin in pipelines (DP-Trans)
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Discretize first, reduce next: a new paradigm to closure for fluid flow simulation (None)
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Unravelling Neural Networks with Structure-Preserving Computing (Unravelling Neural Networks)
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Verified Exascale Computing for Multiscale Applications (VECMA)
Related partners
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics
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Bull Sas
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CBK Sci Con Ltd
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Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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MeitY
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Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk
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Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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Brunel University London
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University College London
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Universiteit Leiden
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Universiteit van Amsterdam