COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS: PROMISING NEW FRONTIERS IN ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS 1
Annotatsiya
In the last 20 years replacing entirely or partially the physical experiments with the numerical ones has become increasingly popular and it is a daily practice. A genuine reason for a single or a combined approach is that both the physical experimentation is sometimes unapproachable or extremely expensive, and the use of the codes in the product/ process development phase have become straightforward and quite inexpensive. The latter may represent also very complex systems and may reduce the deal at both design and analysis stages, cutting down to the minimum the preparation of very expensive prototypes. The general availability of comprehensive computing facilities and the recent progresses in software development make numerical simulation of complex systems an attractive alternative option to the execution of the expensive and time consuming physical experiments. In this paper, different techniques for modeling and design a simulated experiment are exhibited according to the more recent literature. A separately paragraph will be devoted to an exhibition of a few case studies for which the physical experiment had been replaced with a simulated one.