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Design method Dynamic response method Uses dynamic response spectrum method, taking into account multiple modes of oscillation, which has higher quality until the sum of effective modal masses reaches a certain percentage of the oscillating mass of the system 5... 

The fifth and final chapter, on Parallel Force Field Evaluation, takes account of the fact that the bulk of CPU time spent in MD simulations is required for evaluation of the force field. In the first paper, BOARD and his coworkers present a comparison of the performance of various parallel implementations of Ewald and multipole summations together with recommendations for their application. The second paper, by Phillips et AL., addresses the special problems associated with the design of parallel MD programs. Conflicting issues that shape the design of such codes are identified and the use of features such as multiple threads and message-driven execution is described. The final paper, by Okunbor Murty, compares three force decomposition techniques (the checkerboard partitioning method. 

IPE results genrally are consistent with the results of previous NRC and industry risk studies in indicating that the CDF is often determined by many accident sequence combinations, rather than a failure. The largest contributors to CDF vary among the plants (e.g., LOCAs dominate some IPE while station blackout [SBO] dominates others). Support systems, whose design varies considerably with plant, are important to all plants because they can cause multiple front-line system failures. This may account for much of the variability in the IPE results. 

The global design equations for packed beds—e.g.. Equations (10.1), (10.9), (10.39), and (10.40)—all have a similar limitation to that of the axial dispersion model treated in Chapter 9. They all assume steady-state operation. Adding an accumulation term, da/dt accounts for the change in the gas-phase inventory of component A but not for the surface inventory of A in the adsorbed form. The adsorbed inventory can be a large multiple of the gas-phase inventory. 

Returning to the scheme of Figure 1.28 and thinking about the choice of the seven constants that must be specified, it is advantageous to separate the seven into three primary and four secondary constants. The primary ones are taken to be E0, KA, and KB, and the others are expressed as multiples of them. The four multipliers required for this are designated a, b, d, and g, for consistency with previous accounts of this scheme for receptor activation (see, e.g., Colquhoun [1998] and references therein). 

Practical design problems may need to take into account many additional factors, including the recycle of some reactants (such as hydrogen), residence time distribution, inhomogeneity of the packing, multiple reactions, approach to equilibria, and so on. All of these problems have been encountered before, and professional simulator routines for solving them are versatile, effective and as reliable as the data provided to them. At least half a dozen such computer packages are commercially available. 

A glance at the list of patents at the end of the chapter will show what an amount of ingenuity has been expended in the design of electrolytic plant for the production of oxygen and hydrogen. On account of this multiplicity of different cells it is intended merely... 

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