##  [Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis](/adjoint-sensitivity-analysis) 

  ##  [Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis](https://engineering.quantumdictionary.io/adjoint-sensitivity-analysis-0) 

  

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Definition

A computational technique that obtains sensitivities (gradients) of one or a few scalar objectives or constraints with respect to many design or control variables by solving an adjoint (transposed, linearized) problem derived from the governing equations; the cost of computing the full gradient is approximately independent of the number of design variables and scales with the number of objectives