Research Article

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

Table 6

Comparison of standard deviation with different number of collocation points.

Number of collocation points (N)PCEMC
(N=1000)

N=2P2.786 (24.5%)3.352 (9.1%)3.016 (18.3%)3.743 (1.4%)
N=3P2.828 (23.4%)3.401 (7.8%)3.639 (1.4%)3.735 (1.1%)
N=4P2.953 (19.9%)3.414 (7.5%)3.645 (1.2%)3.728 (1.0%)3.691

Full rank3.014 (18.3%)3.536 (4.2%)3.727 (0.9%)3.699 (0.2%)
IPCM2.711 (26.5%)3.421 (7.3%)3.728 (1.0%)3.725 (0.9%)