Research Article

Sensitivity Analysis Based on Polynomial Chaos Expansions and Its Application in Ship Uncertainty-Based Design Optimization

Table 2

Sensitivity indices of Sobol’ function ().

Sensitivity indicesAnalytical solutionPCE()

0.60370.6263
0.26830.2814
0.06710.0711
0.02000.0213
0.00550.0062
0.00090.0012
0.00020.0006
0.00000.0002

0.63420.6538
0.29450.3128
0.07560.0792
0.02270.0231
0.00620.0068
0.00110.0015
0.00030.0007
0.00000.0002