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Approaches used to model ozone formation include box, gradient transfer, and trajectoty methods. Another method, the particle-in-cell method, advects centers of mass (that have a specific mass assigned) with an effective velocity that includes both transport and dispersion over each time step. Chemistry is calculated using the total mass within each grid cell at the end of each time step. This method has the advantage of avoiding both the numerical diffusion of some gradient transfer methods and the distortion due to wind shear of some trajectory methods. 

Any person working in kinetics will need to consider numerical methods at one time or another. Not to do so means one either confines his or her investigations to the simplest of systems (and how can one guarantee this ) or else lives with solutions that are inappropriately simplified and quite possibly incorrect. 

Numerical analysis is important in digital-computer work from another viewpoint. Sometimes it is necessary to express complex functional relationships in a simpler form. Occasionally relationships may be given in a graphical or tabular form not directly suitable for processing on digital equipment. In these situations numerical methods for curve fitting and interpolation are techniques which will necessarily be employed. 

Introduced in the context of heavy-particle reactive collisions [440], the complex Kohn method has been successfully applied to electron-molecule scattering [341], It is accurate but computationally intensive, since continuum basis orbitals do not have the Gaussian form that is exploited in most ah initio molecular bound-state studies. The method has been implemented using special numerical methods [341] developed for these integrals. These numerical methods mitigate another practical... 

The basic aim of the book is to present a discussion of some currently available methods for predicting convective heat transfer rates. The main emphasis is, therefore, on the prediction of heat transfer rates rather than on the presentation of large amounts of experimental data. Attention is given to both analytical and numerical methods of analysis. Another aim of the book is to present a thorough discussion of the foundations of the subject in a clear, easy to follow, student-oriented style. 

Intermolecular meta cycloadditions provide yet another option for the facile [SC -i- 2C] construction of seven-membered rings, as illustrated in Srinivasan s pioneering studies (Scheme 24). The availability of simple arenes and alkenes and of numerous methods as discussed above for the modification of meta cycloadducts makes this a particularly effective stategy for cycloheptanoid synthesis. 

Numerous methods are now available in the literature for the deprotection of TBS ethers under a variety of conditions. One of the most effective ways for the cleavage of silyl ethers is based on the exploitation of the high affinity of silicon towards fluoride ions. Thus, a number of reagents involving one form of fluoride or another, such as tetrabutylammonium fluoride [292], BF3-Et20 [301], hydrofluoric acid [302], fluorosilicic acid [303], ammonium fluoride [304], silicon fluoride [305], lithium tetrafluoroborate [306], and chlorotrimethylsilane/potassium fluoride dehydrate [307] have been developed for the deprotection of TBDMS ethers. Among these, TBAF is most frequently used but the strong basicity of the fluoride anion makes it inappropriate for base sensitive functionalities. 

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