Abstract
Sensitivity analysis is applied to an investigation of the influence of parameters on the dynamics of a variable displacement axial piston pump. Since an exact mathematical model of piston pump is complex and highly non-linear, the investigation of its dynamic characteristics for the variation of the system parameters by changing separate parameter values in sequence becomes very ineffective. In this paper a parameter sensitivity analysis was employed to analyse the effects of the system parameters systematically. The analysis was done on the exact non-linear dynamic model of the pump system which is represented by fourth-order dynamics. Based upon the simulation results, the degree of influence of each parameter and the justification of order reduction are discussed in some detail.
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