Keywords
transport-aware tuning
salinity gradient
paired simulation
reproducibility
Abstract
We evaluated transport-aware tuning for membrane desalination under 37% salinity gradient. A deterministic paired simulation generated 72 cases and preserved a upper-severity quartile. Mean flux-selectivity balance changed from 0.543 to 0.588; the paired difference was +0.045 (95% interval +0.043 to +0.048). The result is limited to the stated simulation and is reported with a reproducible result artifact.
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