A data-driven analysis of short and long laminar separation bubbles
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Abstract
This work investigates the statistical response of short and long laminar separation bubbles to external flow parameters, such as Reynolds number, free-stream turbulence intensity and streamwise pressure gradient, known to govern bubble formation and characteristics. A parametric experimental campaign has been performed using particle image velocimetry on a flat plate to provide a comprehensive database for the characterization of separation-induced transition in both short and long separation bubbles. The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) was applied to the data set of all dividing streamlines commonly used to identify a laminar separation bubble. This provides an optimal state-space basis for the data-driven classification of the state of a laminar separation bubble, with the leading modes capturing the change in length and height of the laminar separation bubble in response to changes in the flow parameters. When projected onto the POD subspace constituted by the first three leading modes, the normalized data from the present study and the results from prior investigations not used in the modal analysis collapse on the same trajectory in the low-dimensional space. The present POD basis can be therefore adopted for the description of the general response of the time-mean shape of a laminar separation bubble to changes in the main influencing parameters. A well-defined pattern was observed in the case of short laminar separation bubbles in the reduced-order space defined by the first three POD coefficients, whereas a higher dispersion in the long-bubble regime indicates an increased sensitivity of long bubbles to the external flow characteristics.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 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.
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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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