Estimation Technique for a Contact Point Between two Materials in a Stationary Heat Transfer Problem
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Abstract
An inverse problem for a stationary heat transfer process is studied for a totally isolated bar on its lateral surface, of negligible diameter, made up of two consecutive sections of different, isotropic and homogeneous materials. At the left boundary, a Dirichlet type condition is imposed that represents a constant temperature source while a Robin type condition that models the heat dissipation by convection is considered at the right one. Many articles in the literature focus on thermal and stress analysis at the interface but no one is dedicated to the estimation of the contact point location between the two materials. In this work, it is assumed that the interface position is unknown. A technique to determine it from a unique noisy flow measurement at the right boundary is introduced. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived in order to obtain the estimation of the interface point from a heat flux measured at the right boundary. Numerical solutions are obtained together with an expression for the estimation error. Moreover, an elasticity analysis is included to study the influence of data errors. The results show that our approach is useful for determining the location of the materials interface.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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