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Chaotic dynamical systems such as turbulent flows are characterized by an exponential divergence of infinitesimal perturbations to initial conditions. Therefore, conventional adjoint/tangent sensitivity analysis methods that are successful…
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Probabilistic sensitivity analysis identifies the influential uncertain input to guide decision-making. We propose a general sensitivity framework with respect to the input distribution parameters that unifies a wide range of sensitivity…
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