Rate Constant Calculation for Thermal Reactions Methods and Applications
, by DaCosta, Herbert; Fan, MaohongNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780470582305 | 0470582308
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/18/2012
This book provides an overview of the latest computational approaches to estimate rate constants for thermal reactions. It addresses the theories behind various first-principle and approximation methods that have emerged in the last twenty years with validation examples, and presents in-depth applications of those theories to a wide range of basic and applied research areas. When doing modeling and simulation of chemical reactions (as in many other cases), one often has to compromise between higher-accuracy/higher-precision approaches (which are usually time-consuming) and approximate/lower-precision approaches (which often has the advantage of speed in providing results). This book covers both approaches. It is augmented by a wide-range of applications of the above methods to fuel combustion, unimolecular and bimolecular reactions, isomerization, polymerization, and to emission control of nitrogen oxides.