Efficient uncertainty quantification in unsteady aeroelastic simulations

An efficient uncertainty quantification method for unsteady problems is presented in order to achieve a constant accuracy in time for a constant number of samples. The approach is applied to the aeroelastic problems of a transonic airfoil flutter system and the AGARD 445.6 wing benchmark with uncertainties in the flow and the structure.

A robust and efficient uncertainty quantification method for coupled fluid-structure interaction problems

A robust and efficient uncertainty quantification method is presented for resolving the effect of uncertainty on the behavior of multi-physics systems. The extrema diminishing method in probability space maintains a bounded error due to the interpolation of deterministic samples at constant phase in a transonic airfoil flutter problem.

A Monomial Chaos Approach for Efficient Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Fluid Dynamics

A monomial chaos approach is proposed for efficient uncertainty quantification in nonlinear computational problems. Propagating uncertainty through nonlinear equations can still be computationally intensive for existing uncertainty quantification methods. It usually results in a set of nonlinear equations which can be coupled. The proposed...

An unsteady adaptive stochastic finite elements uncertainty quantification method for fluid-structure interaction problems

Efficient uncertainty quantification using a two-step approach with chaos collocation

In this paper a Two Step approach with Chaos Collocation for efficient uncertainty quantification in computational fluid-structure interactions is followed. In Step I, a Sensitivity Analysis is used to efficiently narrow the problem down from multiple uncertain parameters to one parameter which has the largest influence on the solution. In Step...

A Monomial Chaos Approach for Efficient Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Fluid Dynamics

A monomial chaos approach is proposed for efficient uncertainty quantification in nonlinear computational problems. Propagating uncertainty through nonlinear equations can still be computationally intensive for existing uncertainty quantification methods. It usually results in a set of nonlinear equations which can be coupled. The proposed...

Unsteady adaptive stochastic finite elements for quantification of uncertainty in time-dependent simulations

Reliable Computational Predictions by Modeling Uncertainties Using Arbitrary Polynomial Chaos

Inherent physical uncertainties can have a significant influence on computational predictions. It is therefore important to take physical uncertainties into account to obtain more reliable computational predictions. The Galerkin polynomial chaos method is a commonly applied uncertainty quantification method. However, the polynomial chaos...

Unsteady adaptive stochastic finite elements for aeroelastic systems with randomness

Reliable Computational Predictions by Modeling Uncertainties Using Arbitrary Polynomial Chaos

Inherent physical uncertainties can have a significant influence on computational predictions. It is therefore important to take physical uncertainties into account to obtain more reliable computational predictions. The Galerkin polynomial chaos method is a commonly applied uncertainty quantification method. However, the polynomial chaos...

Explicit inverse distance weighting mesh motion for coupled problems

An explicit mesh motion algorithm based on inverse distance weighting interpolation is presented. The explicit formulation leads to a fast mesh motion algorithm and an easy implementation. In addition, the proposed point-by-point method is robust and flexible in case of large deformations, hanging nodes, and parallelization. Mesh quality results...

Efficient uncertainty quantification using a two-step approach with chaos collocation

In this paper a Two Step approach with Chaos Collocation for efficient uncertainty quantification in computational fluid-structure interactions is followed. In Step I, a Sensitivity Analysis is used to efficiently narrow the problem down from multiple uncertain parameters to one parameter which has the largest influence on the solution. In Step...