Summary and Final Remarks

First, the scenario is defined, followed by a brief summary of the code. Next, the various clouds and ignition positions are defined, then the results are given, and finally some concluding remarks are made. 

My final remarks are a summary and a challenge. The content of the physical chemistry course cannot be determined by the instructor based on instinct or favorite topics. The subject matter needs to be shaped by the constraints ... 

Professor H.S. Taylor, who was considered during his lifetime to be the dean of American Catalytic Chemists, is quoted as remarking that the work at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory could be considered as the basis of a textbook on heterogeneous catalysis. It included catalyst development, reactor design and basic catalyst studies. These latter included the usual basic studies of the physical and chemical adsorption of reactants, the kinetics of the reaction, studies of the catalyst surface and finally, mechanism studies and conjectures. In line with this suggestion we shall now give a compact summary of the basic work. 

In this chapter, we begin with some remarks on the technological and scientific importance of complex materials and interfaces and motivate the study of interface and surface properties. We then review some of the physical and mathematical methods that are used in the subsequent discussions of interface and membrane statistical thermodynamics. Many of these topics are discussed more fully in the references and throughout this chapter. We begin with a review of classical statistical mechanics ", including a description of fluctuations about equilibrium and of binary mixtures. The mathematical description of an interface is then presented (using only vector calculus) and the calculation of the area and curvature of an interface wifli an arbitrary shape is demonstrated. Finally, the chapter is concluded by a brief summary of hydrodynamics. ... 

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