Keywords
transport-aware tuning
salinity gradient
paired simulation
reproducibility
Abstract
We evaluated transport-aware tuning for membrane desalination under 36% salinity gradient. A deterministic paired simulation generated 64 cases and preserved a median slice. Mean flux-selectivity balance changed from 0.517 to 0.554; the paired difference was +0.037 (95% interval +0.035 to +0.039). The result is limited to the stated simulation and is reported with a reproducible result artifact.
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