Collision, defined

The collision cross section o becomes equal to jt(rA + rB)2 if every collision (defined by physical contact of the spheres A and B) leads to reaction, that is... 

The viscosity, themial conductivity and diffusion coefficient of a monatomic gas at low pressure depend only on the pair potential but through a more involved sequence of integrations than the second virial coefficient. The transport properties can be expressed in temis of collision integrals defined [111] by... 

At low solvent density, where isolated binary collisions prevail, the radial distribution fiinction g(r) is simply related to the pair potential u(r) via g ir) = exp[-n(r)//r7]. Correspondingly, at higher density one defines a fiinction w r) = -kT a[g r). It can be shown that the gradient of this fiinction is equivalent to the mean force between two particles obtamed by holding them at fixed distance r and averaging over the remaining N -2 particles of the system. Hence w r) is called the potential of mean force. Choosing the low-density system as a reference state one has the relation... 

In an ensemble of collisions, the impact parameters are distributed randomly on a disc with a probability distribution P(b) that is defined by P(b) db = 2nb db. The cross section da is then defined by... 

This equation results from the assumption that the actual reaction step in themial reaction systems can happen only in molecules (or collision pairs) with an energy exceeding some tlireshold energy Eq which is close, in general, to the Arrhenius activation energy defined by equation (A3.13.3). Radiative energization is at the basis of classical photochemistry (see e.g. [4, 3 and 7] and chapter B2.5) and historically has had an interesting sideline in the radiation... 

With this convention, we can now classify energy transfer processes either as resonant, if IA defined in equation (A3.13.81 is small, or non-resonant, if it is large. Quite generally the rate of resonant processes can approach or even exceed the Leimard-Jones collision frequency (the latter is possible if other long-range potentials are actually applicable, such as by pennanent dipole-dipole interaction). 

Classical ion trajectory computer simulations based on the BCA are a series of evaluations of two-body collisions. The parameters involved in each collision are tire type of atoms of the projectile and the target atom, the kinetic energy of the projectile and the impact parameter. The general procedure for implementation of such computer simulations is as follows. All of the parameters involved in tlie calculation are defined the surface structure in tenns of the types of the constituent atoms, their positions in the surface and their themial vibration amplitude the projectile in tenns of the type of ion to be used, the incident beam direction and the initial kinetic energy the detector in tenns of the position, size and detection efficiency the type of potential fiinctions for possible collision pairs. 

After defining the input parameters, the calculation of the trajectories of an incident ion begins with a randomly chosen initial entrance point on the surface. The next step is to find the first collision partner. 

As a increases, a critical value " i-.iiiis reached each time the th layer of target atoms moves out of the shadow cone allowing for large-angle backscattering (BS) or small-/i collisions as shown in figure Bl.23.3. If the BS intensity 1, is monitored as a fimction of a, steep rises [36] witli well defined maxima are observed when the... 

Collision strengths Q exploit this detailed balance relation by being defined as... 

The probability for a particular electron collision process to occur is expressed in tenns of the corresponding electron-impact cross section n which is a function of the energy of the colliding electron. All inelastic electron collision processes have a minimum energy (tlireshold) below which the process cannot occur for reasons of energy conservation. In plasmas, the electrons are not mono-energetic, but have an energy or velocity distribution,/(v). In those cases, it is often convenient to define a rate coefficient /cfor each two-body collision process ... 

Once prepared in S q witli well defined energy E, donor molecules will begin to collide witli batli molecules B at a rate detennined by tire batli-gas pressure. A typical process of tliis type is tire collision between a CgFg molecule witli approximately 5 eV (40 000 cm or 460 kJ mor ) of internal vibrational energy and a CO2 molecule in its ground vibrationless state 00 0 to produce CO2 in tire first asymmetric stretch vibrational level 00 1 [11,12 and 13]. This collision results in tire loss of approximately AE= 2349 cnA of internal energy from tire CgFg,... 

The ciphered code is indicated with a defined length, i.e., a fixed hit/byte length. A hash code of 32 bits could have 2 (or 4 294 976 296) possible values, whereas one of 64 bits could have 2 values, However, due to tbe fixed length, several diverse data entries could assign the same hash code ( address collision ), The probability of collision rises if the number of input data is increased in relation to the range of values (bit length). In fact, the limits of hash coding are reached with about 10 000 compounds with 32 bits and over 100 million with 64 bits, to avoid collisions in databases [97. ... 

A7 Ethane/methane selectivity calculated from grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations of mixtures in slit IS at a temperature of 296 K. The selectivity is defined as the ratio of the mole fractions in the pore to the ratio of mole fractions in the bulk. H is the slit width defined in terms of the methane collision diameter (Tch,- (Figure awn from Crackncll R F, D Nicholson and N Quirke 1994. A Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Study ofLennard-s Mixtures in Slit Pores 2 Mixtures of Two-Centre Ethane with Methane. Molecular Simulation 13 161-175.)... 

There is an intimate connection at the molecular level between diffusion and random flight statistics. The diffusing particle, after all, is displaced by random collisions with the surrounding solvent molecules, travels a short distance, experiences another collision which changes its direction, and so on. Such a zigzagged path is called Brownian motion when observed microscopically, describes diffusion when considered in terms of net displacement, and defines a three-dimensional random walk in statistical language. Accordingly, we propose to describe the net displacement of the solute in, say, the x direction as the result of a r -step random walk, in which the number of steps is directly proportional to time ... 

The rotational temperature is defined as the temperature that describes the Boltzmann population distribution among rotational levels. For example, for a diatomic molecule, this is the temperature in Equation (5.15). Since collisions are not so efficient in producing rotational cooling as for translational cooling, rotational temperatures are rather higher, typically about 10 K. 

As a practical method, designers have employed other methods such as / -pentane conversion as a key component, kinetic severity factor (31), or molecular collision parameter (32) to represent severity. Alternatively, molecular weight of the complete product distribution has been used to define conversion (A) for Hquid feeds. 

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