Sensitivity analysis of underwater launch based on Morris method

¹ Henan key laboratory of underwater intelligent equipment, Zhengzhou, Henan 450000, China
² Zhengzhou Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Research Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan 450000, China

^* Corresponding author’s e-mail: sherjam@hrbeu.edu.cn

Abstract

The discharge velocity, pressure difference and acceleration of underwater launch performance are affected by many factors, including depth, sailing speed, burning rate, water temperature, density and other operating parameters. The existing underwater launch sensitivity analysis is a local sensitivity qualitative analysis based on single-step perturbation analysis, which can only investigate the influence of a single uncertain factor on the model results in a small range. In this paper, based on the underwater launch model under multi-factor coupling, 10 input parameters were selected to calculate the multi-factor sensitivity of the underwater launch model based on the three objectives of velocity, pressure difference and acceleration at the time of discharge, and the Morris global sensitivity analysis method was used to calculate the sensitivity of the underwater launch model, and the sensitivity of the 10 input parameters to the model results was sorted. The results show that the five input parameters of burning rate, depth, propellant temperature, density and water temperature have the highest sensitivity to velocity, pressure difference and acceleration, and the sensitivity order is slightly different. The influence of water temperature on the three targets is almost evenly distributed in the range of values, and the other parameters have different sensitive ranges for different targets.