VVUQ 50.1 - Guide to a Model Life Cycle Approach That Incorporates Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification

1.1 Scope This Guide provides a guide to the life cycle of a computational model from an engineering perspective, with particular reference to the associated verification and validation processes. The material is presented in the application context of advanced manufacturing and demonstrates how verification and validation processes incorporate into the following iterative stages: establish model requirements, develop the model, deploy the model, use and maintain the model, and retire the model. The emphasis of this Guide is on how the verification and validation processes bear on the life cycle stages; how they are performed is outlined, but further details (including their theoretical basis) are the proper scope of other references, standards, and guidelines.