An integrated and efficient numerical framework for uncertainty quantification: Application to the NASA Langley multidisciplinary Uncertainty Quantification Challenge

16th AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Patelli, Edoardo ^a   Broggi, Matteo ^a   de Angelis, Marco ^a   Alvarez, Diego A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

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