Qualitative Features of General Complex Reaction Systems

Qualitative Features of General Complex Reaction Systems [Pg.339]

In the preceding sections we confined our discussion almost exclusively to systems with monomolecular and pseudomonomolecular rate equations. [Pg.339]

The usefulness of the qualitative features in the treatment of linear systems tells us that we should also seek to discover the qualitative features of the more complex systems. An understanding of the qualitative features of a set of nonlinear differential equations enables one to plan intelligently, efficiently, and accurately the experimentation and computation program needed to supply the quantitative details. In Section VII, we shall examine some of the known general characteristics of complex nonlinear systems and supply some comments as to how this knowledge may be extended. [Pg.340]

One feature of the system, which has been long recognized [see for example, DeGroot (19)], is that interactions between the various species in the system can lead to additional constraints on the system. For example, consider the reactions [Pg.340]

Although the reaction space for this system is four dimensional, the reaction paths are confined to two dimensional subspaces since only two rates are independent. We may define the quantities f l and 2 such that [Pg.340]

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