Combining Extreme Values Theory and Surrogate Modelling for the Study of a Vircator

Mainly due to their high computational and experimental costs (prohibitive number of experiments needed to carry on statistical inferences), High Power Electromagnetics (HPEM) are rarely devoted to the assessment of extreme values. In HPEM applications, only few studies were devoted to infer extreme values in order to extend the studies of classical general tendencies. Recently, a surrogate model of a Vircator with drastically reduced computational cost was proposed
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. The domain of validity has been tested against Xoopic defining the boundaries where the surrogate model and PIC simulation are in good agreement.