field_objectives
Number of field objective functions
Specification
Alias: num_field_objectives
Arguments: INTEGER
Child Keywords:
Required/Optional |
Description of Group |
Dakota Keyword |
Dakota Keyword Description |
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Required |
Lengths of field responses |
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Optional |
Number of independent coordinates for field responses |
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Optional |
Add context to data: flag to indicate that field coordinates should be read |
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Description
This keyword describes the number of field objective functions.
A field function is a set of related response values collected over a range of
independent coordinate values which may or may not be specified by the user.
For example, voltage over time would be a field function, where voltage is
the field_objective and time is the independent coordinate.
Similarly, temperature over time and space would be a field response, where the
independent coordinates would be both time and spatial coordinates such as (x,y) or (x,y,z), depending on the application.
The main difference between scalar objectives and field objectives is that for field data, we
plan to implement methods that take advantage of the correlation or relationship between
the field values.
Note that if there is one field_objective, and it has length 100 (meaning 100 values), then
the user’s simulation code must return 100 values.
Also, if there are both scalar and field objectives, the user should specify
the number of scalar objectives as scalar_objectives. If there are only field objectives,
it still is necessary to specify both objective_functions = NN and field_objectives = NN,
where NN is the number of field objectives.
Objective functions are responses that are used with optimization methods in Dakota. Currently, each term in a field objective is added to the total objective function presented to the optimizer. For example, if you have one field objective with 100 terms (e.g. a time-temperature trace with 100 time points and 100 corresponding temperature points), the 100 temperature values will be added to create the overall objective.
