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Understanding System Sensitivity Analysis

Sensitivity measures how changes in system parameters affect performance and transfer functions. An ideal system has zero sensitivity, meaning parameter changes do not impact the transfer function. The document provides a mathematical definition of sensitivity and includes examples and exercises for further understanding.

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Understanding System Sensitivity Analysis

Sensitivity measures how changes in system parameters affect performance and transfer functions. An ideal system has zero sensitivity, meaning parameter changes do not impact the transfer function. The document provides a mathematical definition of sensitivity and includes examples and exercises for further understanding.

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Sensitivity

Ideally, parameter changes due to heat or other causes should not appreciably affect a system’s performance. The degree to
which changes in system parameters affect system transfer functions, and hence performance, is called sensitivity.
A system with zero sensitivity (that is, changes in the system parameters have no effect on the transfer function) is ideal. The
greater the sensitivity, the less desirable the effect of a parameter change.
So sensitivity is the ratio of the fractional change in the function to the fractional change in the parameter as the fractional
change of the parameter approaches zero.

Fractional change in the f unction, F


S F :P = lim
ΔP →0 Fractional change in the parameter, P

ΔF /F
= lim
ΔP →0 ΔP /P

P ΔF
= lim
ΔP →0 F ΔP

Hence;

P df
S F :P =
F dp

Example 7.10
Example 7.11
Example 7.12
SA exercise 7.6

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