Theories of Energy Disposal in Chemical Reactions.

Abstract

Accurate and approximate quantum dynamical calculations on elementary chemical reactions of importance for the fundamental aspects of chemical dynamics and for advanced technologies of interest to the US Air Force, such as high energy chemical lasers, plume technology, and the chemical effects of high energy radiation, were performed. These included calculations of three-atom exchange reactions, breakup collisions, three-body recombinations, vibrational quenching by reaction, resonances, and electronic branching ratios. The aim of these calculations was to develop an understanding of these processes and to develop benchmark data against which approximate methods could be tested. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA050968

Entities

People

  • Aron Kuppermann

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Angular Momentum
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Geometry
  • Lepidoptera
  • Measurement
  • Nanogenerators
  • Performance Engineering
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wave Functions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Quantum Chemistry

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing