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ON UNCERTAINTY AND LOCAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR STEADY-STATE CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER PROBLEMS PART 1: EMISSIVITY, FLUID TEMPERATURE, AND CONDUCTANCE

Christian Rauch^*

VIRTUAL VEHICLE Research and Test Center (ViF), Graz, 8010, Austria

* Corresponding Author: Email: , Tel.: 0043 316 873 9029

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2011, 2(3), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.v2.3.3006

Abstract

In recent years, significant effort has been placed into developing automated multi-physics simulation. The exchange of boundary conditions has lead to more realistic as well as more complex simulations with usually slower convergence rate when the coupling is being performed between two different codes. In this paper the equations of local sensitivities for element centered steady-state combined convection, conduction, and thermal radiation problems are being derived. A numerical analysis on the stability of the solution matrix is being conducted. Partial uncertainties and the relative importance of the heat transfer modes are investigated by their uncertainty factors and conclusions are being drawn.

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