Global examples

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Because our work is becoming increasingly global, examples and lessons learned are taken from around the world to explain how they are used in industries such as manufacturing, consumer products, chemical process, oil and gas, aviation, mass transit, military and space, and commercial nuclear power. No one country or industry has got it all figured out and there is much to learn from each other. Each chapter also includes Notes from Nick s File, actual experiences that I ve lived through in applying the techniques discussed—successes and also my own failures. 

We have continued to add current examples throughout the book, with a particular focus on bringing in more global examples. 

For the above reasons, gas Is typically economic to develop only if it can be used locally, i.e. if a local demand exists. The exception to this is where a sufficient quantity of gas exists to provide the economy of scale to make transportation of gas or liquefied gas attractive. As a guide, approximately 10 Tcf of recoverable gas would be required to justify building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant. Globally there are few such plants, but an example would be the LNG plant in Malaysia which liquefies gas and transports it by refrigerated tanker to Japan. The investment capital required for an LNG plant Is very large typically in the order of 10 billion. 

Systems involving an interface are often metastable, that is, essentially in equilibrium in some aspects although in principle evolving slowly to a final state of global equilibrium. The solid-vapor interface is a good example of this. We can have adsorption equilibrium and calculate various thermodynamic quantities for the adsorption process yet the particles of a solid are unstable toward a drift to the final equilibrium condition of a single, perfect crystal. Much of Chapters IX and XVII are thus thermodynamic in content. 

Full structure search can be developed by using similar approaches to those employed in the case of 2D structure search. Thus, some topological indices can be modified in such a way that they include geometrical information. For example, the global index given by Eq. (4) can be modified to Eq. (11), where are real interatomic distances. 

Example Crippen and Snow reported their success in developing a simplified potential for protein folding. In their model, single poin Ls rep resell t am in o acids. For th e avian pan creatic polypeptide, th c n ative structure is not at a poten tial m in imum. However, a global search fotin d that the most stable poten tial m in im urn h ad only a 1.8, An gstrom root-m ean-square deviation from thenative structu re. 

Although the elemental stiffness Equation (2.55) has a common form for all of the elements in the mesh, its utilization based on the shape functions defined in the global coordinate system is not convenient. Tliis is readily ascertained considering that shape functions defined in the global system have different coefficients in each element. For example... 

Families of finite elements and their corresponding shape functions, schemes for derivation of the elemental stiffness equations (i.e. the working equations) and updating of non-linear physical parameters in polymer processing flow simulations have been discussed in previous chapters. However, except for a brief explanation in the worked examples in Chapter 2, any detailed discussion of the numerical solution of the global set of algebraic equations has, so far, been avoided. We now turn our attention to this important topic. 

As the number of elements in the mesh increases the sparse banded nature of the global set of equations becomes increasingly more apparent. However, as Equation (6,4) shows, unlike the one-dimensional examples given in Chapter 2, the bandwidth in the coefficient matrix in multi-dimensional problems is not constant and the main band may include zeros in its interior terms. It is of course desirable to minimize the bandwidth and, as far as possible, prevent the appearance of zeros inside the band. The order of node numbering during... 

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