The burner's sensitivity study ranks all ten design parameters by how much they move the engineering gain, and the ranking is published in full. It reveals an uncomfortable truth — nine parameters barely matter and one carries the whole closure — and Kronos prints it anyway.
The ranking spans a factor of 11 (plug density ratio) down to essentially flat (central-cell length, channelling efficiency). Publishing it tells the reader exactly where the design is robust and where it is exposed. The single dominant parameter is the binding requirement; the wide, flat window in the other nine is real operability.
A published sensitivity ranking is a map of a design's real risks. It points every experiment at the parameter that matters and prevents effort from being spent on knobs that do not move the answer. Burying it would hide both the operability and the single point of exposure.
| Parameters ranked | 10, by gain sensitivity |
| Top | plug density ratio (x11) |
| Bottom | length, channelling (flat) |
| Reveals | 9 inert, 1 binding |
| Status | published in full |