x - Aerospace Computing Lab - Stanford University
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Sensitivity Estimates vs. Step Size<br />
• Sensitivity of truss stress w.r.t. truss area.<br />
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• Complex-step: practically insensitive to step size.<br />
– Joaquim Martins – January 12, 2000 – 12