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The UV Index is an index for planning sun-safety outdoor activities. The UV Index predicts the peak level of solar UV radiation in a day and estimates the risk from overexposure. The index has a simple scale from 0 to 12. Local weather forecasts around the world use this index. There is a computer model with an empirical formula based on stratospheric ozone concentration, cloud amounts, and elevation from the ground that estimates the ground-level strength of solar UV radiation. The UV Index started in Canada and is a standard of the World Health Organization and other organizations. Table 21-3 lists the UV Index values and their interpretations. 

Critical Micelle Concentration. The rate at which the properties of surfactant solutions vary with concentration changes at the concentration where micelle formation starts. Surface and interfacial tension, equivalent conductance (50), dye solubilization (51), iodine solubilization (52), and refractive index (53) are properties commonly used as the basis for methods of CMC determination. 

The parametric approach, which is not strictly needed for a single Gray-Scott reaction, works very well for an arbitrary number of parallel reactions and for continuous mixtures. Figure 16 shows a case of two parallel reactions for which an isola and a mushroom coexist. Because the notions of continuous mixtures and reactions will be treated in Chapter 8, G H and in the group of papers listed in the Index of Subjects in Publications under the heading Continuous mixtures, we can be very brief and start with the nondimensional equations. Let x be the index of the mixture whose species are /4(x). The steady-state concentration of the material with index in (x, x + dx) is V(x)dx, the feed concentration a(x)dx and the conversion U(x) = 1 - V/(x)/a(x), the last being defined only for values of x for which a(x) is not zero. B, the autocatalytic agent, forms itself as an undifferentiated product whose concentration is W. The rate of the first reaction, and hence p,(x), depends on the... 

If the simulation only involves a single substance (species), the situation is relatively simple, and this is the starting point. Some of this has already been described in Chap. 5 but will be repeated here, more generally, and with reference to implicit methods, not yet described. Recall the convention that a concentration denoted as Cj is a present value at the (spatial) index i, that is, a known concentration at time T, whereas C[ denotes a value, yet to be calculated, at time T + ST. 

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