General Collision Models

General Collision Modds.—Equations (29)—(33) clearly indicate the influence of uncertainties in the specific rate constants on the experimentally measured quantities k, or In the following, the dependence on the details of the collisional energy transfer is illustrated. 

Kassel calculation -—-— the same, but RRKM calculation [coinddaux at logio( o/ p) oj — — — — fio = 0.2, stepladder model, RRKM ealetdatum -----Pc = 0.06, stepbxUer model, RRKM calculation  

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DSMC method to a hard-sphere fluid at finite densities. However, the ESMC method did not include attractive interactions between molecules, and therefore, the transport properties predicted by the ESMC method did not agree well with either the experimental data or the theoretical values. Recently, a generalized Enskog Monte Carlo method has been developed [11]. In the new method, a Leonard-Jones (L-J) potential between molecules is introduced, with a generalized collision model, into the Monte Carlo method, and the effects of finite density on the molecular collision rate and transport properties are considered so as to obtain an equation of state for a nonideal gas. The resulting transport properties agree better with the experimental data and theoretical values than do those obtained by any other existing method. 

Since the main procedure in this GEMC method is similar to other Monte Carlo methods for gas flows, the program for it can therefore use many techniques borrowed from the DSMC method, such as the indexing and sample techniques the codes were developed on the basis of the standard DSMC code of Bird [3]. The internal energy exchange model, i.e., the Borgnakke-Larsen model, for the generalized collision model was also modified on the basis of Parker s formula [13]. 

The transition-state model is generally somewhat more accurate than the collision model (at least with p = 1). Another advantage is that it explains why the activation energy is ordinarily much smaller than the bond enthalpies in the reactant molecules. Consider, for example, the reaction... 

Third, the expression for the spectral function pertinent to the HO model is derived in detail using the ACF method. Some general results given in GT and VIG (and also in Section II) are confirmed by calculations, in which an undamped harmonic law of motion of the bounded charged particles is used explicitly. The complex susceptibility, depending on a type of a collision model,... 

The subscript T in Eqs. (370) and (371) refers to the isothermal collision model (induced distribution Ft), to which the complex coefficients (369) and general relations (367) and (368) correspond.55... 

The term reaction mechanism specifies the sequence of chemical steps through which reactants are transformed into products. In the collision model of homogeneous reactions the steps are described in terms of their molecularity. However, the sequence of bond redistributions and other processes (diffusion, recrystallization, etc.) by which a solid reactant is converted into products will generally be far more complex (see Chapter 18) and the information required to characterize contributing steps is far less accessible. Description of these steps. 

The above stochastic collision model then leads to a generalization, Eq. (253), of the Fokker-Planck equation for the evolution of the phase distribution function for mechanical particles, where the velocities acquire a fractional character [30], rather than both the displacements and the velocities as in Eq. (235). In the present context, all these comments apply, of course, to rotational Brownian motion. 

The use of a simple collision model to predict the behaviour of elementary reactions involving two reactant species is instructive but nonetheless limited in scope. To extend such a model to chemical reactions in general would be difficult because the vast majority of these are composite. To make progress in understanding the rates of chemical reactions it is necessary to adopt an experimental approach. 

According to Equation 6.3, this factor is equivalent to the Arrhenius A-factor. In the collision model it is a measure of the standard rate at which reactant species collide that is it is a measure of the number of collisions per second when the concentrations of the reactant species are both 1 mol dm"-. It is necessary to specify standard conditions since, in general, the collision rate depends on the concentrations of the species present (cf. Section 4.1). The value of Atheory a given bimolecular reaction depends on the hard-sphere radii and masses of the reactant species. Calculations show that it does not vary significantly from reaction to reaction with values usually of the order of 10 dm mol s . Table 7.1 compares the calculated values of Atheory for gas-phase bimolecular reactions with those derived from experiment. 

The steric factor, p, of equation (2-20) can be estimated directly from TST using either exact or approximate methods. This is satisfying, since in the manner in which it was introduced p seemed to be yet another adjustable parameter. In general the steric factor is given by the ratio of the pre-exponential factor of the reaction in question to that for the binary collision model ... 

The mean squared energies (A ( o)) are of course also determined by the intermolecular potentials. The duration of the collision or the lifetime of the collision complex will be of primary importance. The statistical collision model assumes a statistical distribution of the energies of all oscillators in A and M during collision. If before collision A is highly excited but M is not excited, this results in very effective energy transfer. With the statistical theory of reaction rates as discussed in section 1.8 one can easily calculate for this model values of (AE ( o)>. see e.g. ref. 97. One finds in general V kT, and so = 1 in equation (1.55). Details of (AE (Eg)) for this model are... 

Obviously, the impulsive collision model is not generally applicable. Interaction potentials more realistic than the hard sphere potential used in the impulsive collision model are necessary. In particular, a further increase of k with [M] is possible. For solvent effects, see ref. 118. 

The general statement of this result is that in order for a collision model to be dynamically correct, the target s response for times of the order of the collision time must accurately approximate the response of the real system. 

In the absence of a specific microscopic picture, the observed normal-state Raman continua of the cuprates have generally been modeled with a collision-dominated scattering response (see sect. 2.5.3), and associated with overdamped fluctuations in the strongly correlated normal-state fluid (Klein et al. 1989, Cooper and Klein 1990, Slakey et al. 1991),... 

For classic collision models, based on an inverse power law (IPL) interaction scheme which only takes into account the repulsion part of the force between two molecules, the expression of v leads to the general form of the mean free path ... 

To simulate the slow-pressure phenomena, a stochastic mixing and reorientation model can be used. It describes the dissipation and the observed tendency of the Reynolds stresses to become isotropic. The stochastic mixing model is similar to that used for the scalar dissipation, whereas the reorientation process is described in analogy with collisions between Maxwellian molecules, i.e., conserving both momentum and energy. Pope [1985] developed an alternative model for the conditional acceleration term, based on the generalized Langevin model. 

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