DAKOTA

DAKOTA developed by Sandia National Laboratory represents a tool for optimization of designs, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of virtually unlimited kinds of simulations. The user manual can be found at DAKOTA homepage.

Running DAKOTA

It is the best to illustrate DAKOTA function by an example. Running DAKOTA requires typically DAKOTA input file, template file to generate variants of input files for the actual calculation tool, and driver script that defines for DAKOTA how to read the results. This example is built for Serpent and analysis of multiplication factor uncertainty due to fuel salt density uncertainty.