Table 1. Standard model optimized parameters and percent error over range of D values. Model values: K =1.0, ve=0.5 D K Error ve Error 0 1.004 0.4% 0.500 0.0% 1.0E-05 1.001 0.1% 0.502 0.4% 2.5E-05 0.997 -0.3% 0.504 0.9% 5.0E-05 0.989 -1.1% 0.509 1.8% 1.0E-04 0.974 -2.6% 0.517 3.4% 2.5E-04 0.929 -7.0% 0.540 8.1% 5.0E-04 0.859 -14.1% 0.574 14.9% 1.0E-03 0.732 -26.9% 0.631 26.2% 2.5E-03 0.500 -50....

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