PMA-SP2
Optimizer

Overview

This simple web app is designed to estimate the optimal experimental parameters for tandem PMA-SP2 experiments. The app uses data from Naseri et al. (2021).

Optimal experimental parameters are chosen as the minimum simulated error for a specific range about those chosen input parameters. For the number concentration, the range is up and down by a factor of sqrt(5), thus spanning an interval of half an order of magnitude. For time, the app considers any simulation with a time below that specified. In other words, if the optimal simulation occurs in half the time, that simulation is shown in the output. For the correlation, specifying the width of the mp-mrBC distribution, the range is shown explicitly in the dropdown menu.

Inputs

No. concentration (Ntot) #/cm3


(
-
to
-
#/cm3)
Time (t)

(Maximum is 10 hrs)
Correlation (R12) [0,1]

Recommended parameters

Lowest error of
simulations

Resolution (Rm)

-
No. of PMA setpoints per decade (nc') #

-
No. of SP2 bins per decade (ns') #

-
SP2 counts / PMA setpoint (Ns) #

-
k

Actual time (t) hrs

Actual correlation (R12) [0,1]

-

Error

-

Created by Arash Naseri and Timothy Sipkens at the University of Alberta.
Open source code and data for this web app is available at github.com/ArashNaseri/pma-sp2-optimizer.