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Uncertainty Quantification Applied to Gas Turbine Components

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The previous chapters analyzed the level of uncertainty in different gas turbine components, how this affects the performance such as life and fuel consumption, and the numerical uncertainty introduced by the CFD modeling itself. This chapter shows how uncertainty quantification techniques are used nowadays in CFD to study the impact of such manufacturing errors, pointing out, for each component, what has been learned and/or discovered using UQ, and which methodology has been used.

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Montomoli, F., Massini, M. (2019). Uncertainty Quantification Applied to Gas Turbine Components. In: Montomoli, F. (eds) Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aircraft Engines. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92943-9_4

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