Instability and Far-from-Equilibrium States of Chemically Reacting Systems.

Abstract

Recent progress is reported on hydrodynamic instabilities in binary fluids heated in a gravitational field from above and below; in the thermodynamic and stochastic formulation of stability in reactive systems far from equilibrium; in the statistical mechanics of stationary states; in the theory of unimolecular reactions; in the Franck-Condon approximation in chemical dynamics; in kinetic instabilities in first order phase transitions; and in experiments on reactions of excited species.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 07, 1979
Accession Number
ADA068314

Entities

People

  • John Ross

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Cell Division
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Convection
  • Dynamics
  • Elastic Scattering
  • Equations
  • Kinetics
  • Mechanics
  • Molecular Physics
  • Phase Transformations
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Quantum Statistical Mechanics
  • Statistical Mechanics

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry
  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Theoretical Analysis.