Many important engineering phenomena such as turbulent flow, fluid-structure interactions, and climate diagnostics are chaotic and sensitivity analysis of such systems is a challenging problem. Computational methods have been proposed to accurately and efficiently estimate the sensitivity analysis of these systems which is of great scientific and engineering interest. In this thesis, a new approach is applied to compute the direct and adjoint sensitivities of time-averaged quantities defined from the chaotic response of the Lorenz system and the double pendulum system. A stabilized time-integrator with adaptive time-step control is used to maintain stability of the sensitivity calculations. A study of convergence of a quantity of interest and its square is presented. Results show that the approach computes accurate sensitivity values with a computational cost that is multiple orders-of-magnitude lower than competing approaches based on least-squares-shadowing approach.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MSSTATE/oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:td-3872 |
| Date | 03 May 2019 |
| Creators | Taoudi, Lamiae |
| Publisher | Scholars Junction |
| Source Sets | Mississippi State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
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