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In recent years, developments in virtual prototyping have gained significant interest. The promise of cost savings and the need for rapid simulations in order to be able to offer various platforms has led to automated coupling of software for various physical models. But relying heavily on simulation necessitates confidence in the results obtained. By incorporating various physical models the number of parameters to be set increases. The uncertainties associated with these input parameters are propagated to the simulation results. Uncertainty analysis aims at quantifying those influences. In this paper local first order sensitivity analysis for conjugate heat transfer problems including cavity radiation is introduced. The issue of memory requirement associated with this approach for industrial sized cases is discussed.

Research and development engineers have paid much attention to coupling commercial tools for examining complex systems, recently. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate an automated coupling of a CFD program with a commercial thermal radiation tool. Based on a previous work the coupling behaviour of a parallelized CFD code is being demonstrated. The automation thus speeds up the calculation procedure even for transient simulations not relying on codes of just one vendor. The simulation is then compared with measurements of temperatures of an actual SUV and conclusions are drawn.