AAAR Convention Presentation
I presented a portion of my thesis work with this poster at the 2020 American Association of Aerosol Research. My research involved conducting a large field study of homes with wood stoves. You can read more about my thesis here... Below I describe some of the more interesting data analyses I conducted for this project.
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System Modelling
Part of the data analysis involved an attempt to identify the source strength of PM2.5 using a unique emission event which coincided with the first burn period of a new woodstove in the homes. This analysis was done with using Matlab by applying a custom fit with a specific differential equation. First a fit was done on the injection data (Red). From this some of the unknown system parameters were estimated. Following that, a more constrained fit function was applied to the decay data(Green). While more research needed to be conducted to validate our calculations, being able to interpret a physical system and apply some advanced modeling techniques was very fun.
