Chemical Kinetics with Mathcad and Maple [Hardcover]

The authors explain at length the principles of chemical kinetics and approaches to computerized calculations in modern software suites

 mathcad and maple. Mathematics is crucial in determining correlations in chemical processes and requires various numerical approaches. Often significant issues with mathematical formalizations of chemical problems arise and many kinetic problems can?t be solved without computers. Numerous problems encountered in solving kinetics? calculations with detailed descriptions of the numerical tools are given. Special attention is given to electrochemical reactions, which fills a gap in existing texts not covering this topic in detail. The material demonstrates how these suites provide quick and precise behavior predictions for a system over time (for postulated mechanisms).Examples, i.e., oscillating and non-isothermal reactions, help explain the use of mathcad more efficiently. Also included are the results of authors own research toward effective computations.

The authors of this book explain at length the principles of chemical kinetics and approaches to computerized calculations in modern software mathcad and maple. Numerous problems encountered in solving kinetics calculations are provided.

Foreword

Chapter 1. Formally-kinetic description of one- and two-step reactions

1.1 Main concepts of chemical kinetics

1.2 Kinetics of simple reactions

1.3 Reactions, which include two elementary steps

1.3.1 Reversible (two-way) reactions

1.3.2 Consecutive reactions

1.3.3 Parallel reactions

1.3.4 Simplest self-catalyzed reaction

Chapter 2. Multi-step reactions: the methods for analytical solving the direct problem

2.1 Developing l“µ