Baltazar D. Aguda and Avner Friedman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780198570912
- eISBN:
- 9780191718717
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198570912.003.0003
- Subject:
- Physics, Soft Matter / Biological Physics
This chapter reviews chemical kinetics to illustrate the formulation of model equations for a given reaction mechanism. For spatially uniform systems, these model equations are usually ordinary ...
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This chapter reviews chemical kinetics to illustrate the formulation of model equations for a given reaction mechanism. For spatially uniform systems, these model equations are usually ordinary differential equations; but coupling of chemical reactions to physical processes such as diffusion requires the formulation of partial differential equations to describe the spatiotemporal evolution of the system. Mathematical analysis of the dynamical models involves basic concepts from ordinary and partial differential equations. Computational methods, including stochastic simulations and sources of computer software programs available free on the internet are also summarized.Less
This chapter reviews chemical kinetics to illustrate the formulation of model equations for a given reaction mechanism. For spatially uniform systems, these model equations are usually ordinary differential equations; but coupling of chemical reactions to physical processes such as diffusion requires the formulation of partial differential equations to describe the spatiotemporal evolution of the system. Mathematical analysis of the dynamical models involves basic concepts from ordinary and partial differential equations. Computational methods, including stochastic simulations and sources of computer software programs available free on the internet are also summarized.
