Method of kinetic models

The text reviews the methodology of kinetic analysis for simple as well as complex reactions. Attention is focused on the differential and integral methods of kinetic modelling. The statistical testing of the model and the parameter estimates required by the stochastic character of experimental data is described in detail and illustrated by several practical examples. Sequential experimental design procedures for discrimination between rival models and for obtaining parameter estimates with the greatest attainable precision are developed and applied to real cases. 

Nevertheless let us highlight two aspects specific for the chain reactions. Firstly, the value analysis method of kinetic models enables to reveal and examine the critical phenomena inherent to branching chain reactions. The results of such investigations are presented in the next paragraph. Secondly, the parametric corollaries (of the value method impart a new meaning to the introduced important feature of chain reactions, the chain length component v/. 

We believe that versatility of the value analysis method of kinetic models and appropriate functional parameters is confirmed once more by its applicability to detailed studied chain processes (Chapter 5). We tried to demonstrate that parametric consequences of the offered approach, the values of species and individual steps supplement harmonically a number of underlying ideas of chain reactions, such as the average chain length, the self-acceleration factor, the constituent chain length, etc. (readers may judge how much we succeeded). 

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