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Pulay, P. 1979a. An Efficient Ab Initio Gradient Program. Theoret. Chim. Acta (Berl.) 50, 299-312. 

For the Paris and the London-Manchester schools, the local culture, educational tradition, laboratory research programs, theoretical systems, and personal networks that helped forge a school identity and a disciplinary identity are worked out in some detail. In addition to constructing an account of a new branch of theoretical chemistry, focused on organic reaction mechanisms, these chapters suggest important differences in national traditions within the disciplinary field of physical organic chemistry. 

J. Verbeek, J.H. Langenberg, C.P. Byrman, J.H. van Lenthe, TURTLE-An ab initioVB/VBSCF/VBCI program Theoretical Chemistry Group, Debye Institute, University of Utrecht, 1993. 

Hydrogeochemical models are dependent on the quality of the chemical analyses, the boundary conditions presumed by the program, theoretical concepts (e.g. calculation of activity coefficients) and the thermodynamic data. Therefore it is vital to check the results critically. For that, a basic knowledge about chemical and thermodynamic processes is required and will be outlined briefly in the following chapters on hydrogeochemical equilibrium (chapter 1.1), kinetics (chapter 1.2), and transport (chapter 1.3). Chapter 2 gives an overview on standard... 

Hydra Program—Theoretical and Experimental Determination of Energy Partition of Selected Underwater Explosives," USNRDL-TR-702 (Oct 1963) 7) W. W. Perkins, Hydra Program. Hydra 1IA Series—The Above-Surface Phenomena Created by 10000-Pound Underwater Detonations, DASA-1443 (Oct 1963) (Conf) (Not used as a source of info)... 

Zorumski, W. E. 1982.. Aircraft noise program theoretical manual. Part I. NASA/TM-83199. 

Glendening, E.D., J.K. Badenhoop, A.E. Reed, J.E. Carpenter, F. Weinhold (1996). NBO 4.0 program. Theoretical Chemistry Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

Amsterdam Density Functional program. Theoretical chemistry. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. http //www.scm.com... 

In the experimental and theoretical study of energy transfer processes which involve some of the above mechanisms, one should distingiush processes in atoms and small molecules and in large polyatomic molecules. For small molecules a frill theoretical quantum treatment is possible and even computer program packages are available [, and ], with full state to state characterization. A good example are rotational energy transfer theory and experiments on Fie + CO [M] ... 

The input to a minimisation program consists of a set of initial coordinates for the system. The initial coordinates may come from a variety of sources. They may be obtained from an experimental technique, such as X-ray crystallography or NMR. In other cases a theoretical method is employed, such as a conformational search algorithm. A combination of experimenfal and theoretical approaches may also be used. For example, to study the behaviour of a protein in water one may take an X-ray structure of the protein and immerse it in a solvent bath, where the coordinates of the solvent molecules have been obtained from a Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics simulation. 

A valuable review of the MOPAC program and the semi-empirical methods MNDO, MINDO/3, AMI, and PM3. Of particular use are theoretical discussions of these semi-empirical methods and many tables validating the accuracy of the MOPAC program and its associated Hamiltonians. 

Aircraft Reactors. As early as World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force considered the use of a nuclear reactor for the propulsion of aircraft (62—64). In 1946 the nuclear energy for propulsion of aircraft (NEPA) program was set up at Oak Ridge, under Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation. Basic theoretical and experimental studies were carried out. The emphasis was on materials. A high temperature reactor was built and operated successfiiUy. 

If P = I, this is the Gauss-Seidel method. If > I, it is overrelaxation if P < I it is underrelaxation. The value of may be chosen empirically, 0 < P < 2, but it can be selected theoretically tor simple problems hke this (Refs. 106 and 221). In particular, these equations can be programmed in a spreadsheet and solved using the iteration feature, provided the boundaries are all rectangular. 

Presaturators. A presaturator to provide lean oil/gas contact prior to feeding the lean oil into the tower can be a good way of getting more out of an older tower. Absorber tray efficiencies ran notoriously low. A presaturator that achieves equilibrium can provide the equivalent of a theoretical tray. This can easily equal 3-4 actual trays. Some modem canned computer distillation/absorp-tion programs provide a presaturator option. 

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