Keywords
transport-aware tuning
salinity gradient
paired simulation
reproducibility
Abstract
We evaluated transport-aware tuning for membrane desalination under 16% salinity gradient. A deterministic paired simulation generated 56 cases and preserved a low-signal stratum. Mean flux-selectivity balance changed from 0.578 to 0.619; the paired difference was +0.042 (95% interval +0.039 to +0.044). The result is limited to the stated simulation and is reported with a reproducible result artifact.
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