Large-scale modeling

Since electrochemical processes involve coupled complex phenomena, their behavior is complex. Mathematical modeling of such processes improves our scientific understanding of them and provides a basis for design scale-up and optimization. The validity and utility of such large-scale models is expected to improve as physically correct descriptions of elementary processes are used. 

Large-scale models, to a scale of at least 1 30, are normally made for major projects. These models are used for piping design and to decide the detailed arrangement of small items of equipment, such as valves, instruments and sample points. Piping isometric diagrams are taken from the finished models. The models are also useful on the construction site, and for operator training. Proprietary kits of parts are available for the construction of plant models. 

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Tompkins A (2002) A prognostic parameterization for the subgrid-scale variability of water vapor and clouds in large-scale models and its use to diagnose cloud cover. J Atmos Sci 59 1917-1942 Turusov V, Rakitsky V, Tomatis L (2002) Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) ubiquity, persistence, and risks. Environmental Health Perspectives 101 125-128 UNEP (2001) Stockholm convention on persistent organic pollutants. http //chmpopsint/... 

Consequently, we have to touch upon at least some operational issues to define our approach to the ways and means of constructing models of metabolism. At the most basic level, surveying the current literature, we face a strong dichotomy between a quest for elaborate large-scale models of cellular pathways and minimal (skeleton) models, tailored to explain specific dynamic phenomena only. 

N. Ishii, M. Robert, Y. Nakayama, A. Kanai, and M. Tomita, Toward large scale modeling of the microbial cell for computer simulation. J. Biotechnol. 113, 281 294 (2004). 

Liu YJ, NishimuraN, Otani Y (2005). Large-scale modeling of carbon-nanotube composites by a fast multipole boundary element method. Comput. Mater. Sci. 34 173-187. 

Schaap et al. [145] proposed a simple methodology to account for traffic re-suspension emissions in a large-scale modelling application by means of the 3D chemistry-transport model LOTOS-EUROS [150] ... 

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Haskell E., Nykamp D.Q., Tranchina D. Population density methods for large-scale modelling of neuronal networks with realistic synaptic kinetics cutting the dimension down to size. Network Comput Neural Syst, 2001 12,141-174. 

Nykamp D. Q., Trandrina D. A population density approach that facilitates large-scale modeling of neural networks analysis and an application to orientation tuning. J Comput Neurosci, 2000, 8(1), 19-50. 

A chiral object and its mirror image are enantiomorphous, and they are each other s enantiomorphs. Louis Pasteur (Figure 2-37) was the first who suggested that molecules can be chiral. In his famous experiment in 1848, he recrystallized a salt of tartaric acid and obtained two kinds of small crystals which were mirror images of each other as seen by Pasteur s models in Figure 2-38 preserved at Institut Pasteur at Paris. Originally Pasteur may have been motivated to make these large-scale models because Jean Baptiste Biot, the discoverer of optical activity had very poor vision by the time of Pasteur s discovery [42], Pasteur demonstrated chirality to Biot, who was visibly affected... 

The establishment of a detailed kinetic model provides an opportunity for the numerical prediction of the behaviour of a chemical system under conditions that may not be accessible by experimental means. However, large-scale models with many variables may require considerable computer resource for their implementation, especially under non-isothermal conditions, for which stiffness of the system of differential equations for mass and energy to be integrated is a problem. Computation in a spatial domain, for which partial differential expressions are appropriate, becomes considerably more demanding. There are also many important fluid mechanical problems in reactive systems, the detailed kinetic representation of the chemistry for which would be highly desirable, but cannot yet be computed economically. In such circumstances there is a place for the use of reduced or simplified kinetic models, as discussed in Chapter 7. Thus,... 

Empirical Potential Based Modeling Schemes. Degrees of freedom in large-scale models can be reduced by incorporating prior information. One way to do this is to specify empirical pair potentials as a function of separation between each atom type. Then the number of atoms the model can be increased but the number of parameters depends only on the number of atomic species. In principle the pair potentials themselves should give the equilibrium structure of... 

It is important that, to optimize the collection efficiency, the gas distribution across the frontal area of the precipitator must be as uniform as possible, although some recent work has indicated that for certain conditions a skewed velocity profile can be advantageous. It is not easy to produce a typical operational gas velocity of around 1.5m/s, which has been decelerated from approximately 15m/s in the inlet approach ductwork, and an acceptable standard of distribution is an RMS deviation of 15%. This standard can be achieved through field corrective testing, large-scale model tests, or the more recent CFD approaches.f ... 

The data discussed above are for present-day abundances in the photosphere and meteorites. However, two processes affected the solar abundances over time. The first is element settling from the solar photosphere into the Sun s interior the second is decay of radioactive isotopes that contribute to the overall atomic abundance of an element. The first, discussed in the following, is more important for the sun and large-scale modeling the changes in isotopic compositions and their effects on abundances are comparably minor but important for radiometric dating. The isotopic effects are considered in the solar system abundance table in this section, but are not described at length here. 

Test Results of Surfactant Enhanced Gasoline Recovery in a Large-Scale Model Aquifer... 

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