Development and testing of a soot particle concentration estimator using Lagrangian post-processing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Soot emissions from combustion devices are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health. As the transportation industry continues to expand, the development of techniques to reduce soot emissions remains a significant goal of researchers and industry. In order for current soot modeling techniques to be reliably accurate, they must incur an intractably high computational cost. This project leverages existing knowledge in soot modeling and soot formation fundamentals to develop a stand-alone, computationally inexpensive soot concentration estimator to be linked to Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations as a post-processor. Preliminary development and testing of the estimator is presented here for laminar flames. As soot properties cannot be determined by local conditions, the estimator consists of a library generated using the hystereses of soot-containing fluid parcels, which relates soot concentration to the aggregated gas-phase environment histories to which a fluid parcel has been exposed. The estimator can be used to relate soot concentration to computed parcel hystereses through interpolation techniques. The estimator shows the potential ability to produce accurate results with very low computational cost in laminar coflow diffusion flames. Results also show that as flame data representing a broader set of conditions (temperature, mixture fraction, residence time, etc.) are added to the library, the estimator becomes applicable to a wider range of flames.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".