Explicit correlation

The generalized graphical correlation presented in Fig. 2.5 gives one method of estimating terminal velocities of drops and bubbles in infinite liquid media. For more accurate predictions, it is useful to have terminal velocities correlated explicitly in terms of system variables. To obtain such a correlation is especially difficult for the ellipsoidal regime where surface-active contaminants are important and where secondary motion can be marked. 

In Section 9.1.1 we have introduced a stochastic model for the description of surface reaction systems which takes correlations explicitly into account but neglects the energetic interactions between the adsorbed particles as well as between a particle and a metal surface. We have formulated this by master equations upon the assumption that the systems are of the Markovian type. In the model an infinite set of master equations for the distribution functions of the state of the surface and of pairs of surface sites (and so on) arise. This chain of equations cannot be solved analytically. To handle this problem practically this hierarchy was truncated at a certain level. The resulting equations can be solved numerically exactly in a small region and can be connected to a mean-field solution for large distances from a reference point. 

For actual chains, the assumption of independent internal rotations cannot be valid, because of the steric interactions between substituent groups on second-neighboring chain atoms and beyond. Various degrees of approximation exist, corresponding to the number of correlations explicitly considered. As an example, we may give a formula of Ptitsyn and Sharonov [(216) see also Volkenstein (21258)] for chains of the —CH2CX2— type ... 

An interesting recent Monte Carlo study (110) demonstrated this correlation explicitly in a comparison of ruthenium and rhodium catalysts. The selectivity for higher oxygenates on ruthenium is low because of the significantly higher rate of CO dissociation on this metal. 

The auxiliary state ( )(k/,ks)) can be chosen so as to exhibit the final-state correlation explicitly. Note that the choice U = v reduces (10.25) to (10.14). A useful choice is... 

The exponent n has a value of unity for water and a value of 1.7 for other fluids. Although the Rohsenow correlation explicitly recognizes that, in reality, the surface has a considerable effect, it must be admitted that, in practice, the values of CSF are rarely known and have to be guessed. Where CSF is not known, a value of 0.013 is recommended as a first approximation. 

Hartree-Fock and post-Hartree-Fock wavefunctions, which do not explicitly contain many-body correlation terms lead to molecular integrals that are substantially more convenient for numerical integration. For this reason, the vast majority of (non-Monte Carlo) work is done with such independent-particle-type functions. However, given the flexibility of Monte Carlo integration, it is very worthwhile in VMC to incorporate many-body correlation explicitly, as well as incorporating other properties a wavefunction ideally should possess. For example, we know that because the true wavefunction is a solution of the Schrodinger equation, the local energy... 

Since this work deals with the aggregated simulation and planning of chemical production processes, the focus is laid upon methods to determine estimations of the process models. For process control this task is the crucial one as the estimations accuracy determines the accuracy of the whole control process. The task to find an accurate process model is often called process identification. To describe the input-output behaviour of (continuously operated) chemical production plants finite impulse response (FIR) models are widely used. These models can be seen as regression models where the historical records of input/control measures determine the output measure. The term "finite" indicates that a finite number of historical records is used to predict the process outputs. Often, chemical processes show a significant time-dynamic behaviour which is typically reflected in auto-correlated and cross-correlated process measures. However, classic regression models do not incorporate auto-correlation explicitly which in turn leads to a loss in estimation efficiency or, even worse, biased estimates. Therefore, time series methods can be applied to incorporate auto-correlation effects. According to the classification shown in Table 2.1 four basic types of FIR models can be distinguished. 

Key words Helium atom - Electron correlation -Explicitly correlated wave functions - Hylleraas expansion... 

We measure correlation explicitly by calculating the squared Frobenius norm of the cumulant portion of the 2-RDM... 

Xg is the homogeneous macroscopic steady state of the system, F and Q being the macroscopic chemical rate and chemical noise strength respectively, and the sum over 1 runs over all nearest neighbors. The last term in the l.h.s. of (8) is a source term for spatial correlations. Explicit calculations [211 show that it is proportional to the net material flux, Jg, through the system at the steady state that is, ultimately, to the nonequilibrium constraint acting on the system. 

MNDOC is a correlated version of MNDO. Unlike all previously discussed methods, MNDOC includes electron correlation explicitly and thus differs from MNDO at the level of the underlying quantum chemical approach (a) while being completely analogous to MNDO in all other aspects (b)-(d) except for the actual values of the parameters. In MNDOC electron correlation is treated conceptually by full configuration interaction, and practically by second-order perturbation theory in simple cases (e.g., closed-shell ground states) and by a variation-perturbation treatment in more complicated cases (e.g., electronically excited states).The MNDOC parameters have been determined at the correlated level and should thus be appropriate in all MNDO-type applications which require an explicit correlation treatment for a qualitatively suitable zero-order description. In closed-shell ground states... 

The Peierls-Hubbard Hamiltonian, which considers both e-e and e-p correlations explicitly, is given by ... 

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