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The concentrations in kmol/m may be found also as soon as we know the masses, M,. The concentrations may now be used along with the temperature to calculate the reaction rate densities, ry, y = 1 to M. Now we know the inflow and outflow of each component, and the rate at which it is being produced or used up by the chemical reactions. Hence we may integrate the N mass-balance differential equations forward by one timestep. 

Turning once more to the equations, we will derive code that will solve these numerically and simultaneously by using this expression for the saturation concentration of the salt and the linear dependence of density upon concentration. The code that follows does just this. The tank parameters are specified along with the volumes of the solution and salt phases at time zero (VIo and VIIo), the salt parameters, the mass transfer and flow rates, the maximum time for the integration to be done, the function calls for the exit flow rate in terms of the inlet flow rate, density of the solution and the saturation concentration of the salt, the material balance equations, the implementation of the numerical solution of the equations and the assignment of the interpolation functions to function names, and finally the graphical output routines. 

The probability of leptonic annihilation in flight may be obtained in the contact approximation, i.e., assuming that electron-positron annihilation occurs at the exact point of coalescence of the two leptons. The rate of annihilation is obtained as a product of the leptonic probability density for coalescence and the positron-electron annihilation rate constant, integrated over aU space. Within this approximation the direct leptonic annihilation rate is given by... 

The collision probability is one of several possible formulations of integral transport theory. Three other formulations are the integral equations for the neutron flux, neutron birth-rate density, and fission neutron density. Oosterkamp (26) derived perturbation expressions for reactivity in the birth rate density formulation. The fission density formulation provides the basis for Monte Carlo methods for perturbation calculations (52, 55). 

This section presents perturbation theory expressions and adjoint functions that correspond to the collision probability, flux, birth-rate density, and fission density formulations [see also reference (54)]. The functional relation between different first-order approximations of perturbation theory in integral and in integrodifferential formulations is established. Specifically, the approximation of the integrodifferential formulation that is equivalent, in accuracy, to each of the first-order approximations of the integral theory formulations is identified. The physical meaning of the adjoint functions corresponding to each of the transport theory formulations and their interrelation are also discussed. 

We shall restrict the comparison to the flux and birth-rate density formulations of integral transport theory and to two sets of distribution functions one consists of the flux and source importance function, and the other set consists of the solutions of the transport equations in the formulation under consideration. 

In the numerical calculations presented in the figures of this section, we used the approximation of an equivalent gray medium (see Eqs. (35) and (36)). In this case, the gray radiative properties are used directly in the expressions, and the variable is the value of the incident surface flux density (integrated over PAR). Finally, the solution for the irradiance is simply multiplied by the gray absorption cross section to obtain the specific rate of photon absorption A = OaG (see the discussion at the end of Section 3.1). This approach allows us to obtain simple analytical solutions appropriate for such analysis. 

In the solution, the current spreads out from the current carrying electrodes, and we must use current density [A/m ] as quantity instead of current (see Eq. (2.3)). A flux is the flow rate through a cross-sectional area, so current density is a flux density. But the total sum of ionic charges passing through the solution is the current density integrated over the whole cross-sectional area, and per second this must equal the electronic current I in the external electrode wire. 

The entropy production rate at macroscopic level, (equation 8.5) can be obtained after integration of the local entropy production rate density over the volume element in phase (a). For the sake of simplification the following assumptions are adopted (i) entropy contributions of all involving phases in the GLRDVE are combined in a single variable (E = /(E )) (m) entropy is produced due to mass and heat diffusion in... 

Since most of the nuclear reactions In N Reactor occur at thermal or near-thermal neutron energies the most Important cross sections are those at these energies. The Vestcott formulation Is particularly useful since It defines an effective cross section for a materiel, vhlch when multiplied by the prqper flux gives the total reaction rate over the entire thermal and slowlng-down neutron spectrum. The flux employed Is nvo vhere Vq Is 2200 m/s (the velocity of neutrons corresponding to a neutron temperature of 20 c) and n Is the total neutron density (Integrated over all energies). 

In the light of the path-integral representation, the density matrix p Q-,Q-,p) may be semi-classically represented as oc exp[ —Si(Q )], where Si(Q ) is the Eucledian action on the -periodic trajectory that starts and ends at the point Q and visits the potential minimum Q = 0 for r = 0. The one-dimensional tunneling rate, in turn, is proportional to exp[ —S2(Q-)], where S2 is the action in the barrier for the closed straight trajectory which goes along the line with constant Q. The integral in (4.32) may be evaluated by the method of steepest descents, which leads to an optimum value of Q- = Q. This amounts to minimization of the total action Si -i- S2 over the positions of the bend point Q. ... 

The following details mathematical expressions for instantaneous (point or local) or overall (integral) selectivity in series and parallel reactions at constant density and isotliermal conditions. An instantaneous selectivity is defined as the ratio of the rate of formation of one product relative to the rate of formation of another product at any point in the system. The overall selectivity is the ratio of the amount of one product formed to the amount of some other product formed in the same period of time. 

In this form, which is analogous to Eq. (26) in the photon absorption case, the rate is expressed as a sum over the neutral molecule s vibration-rotation states to which the specific initial state having energy , can decay of (a) a translational state density p multiplied by (b) the average value of an integral operator A whose coordinate representation is... 

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