Wick equation

Each eigenfunction of the Wick equation represents an angular distribution with a fixed shape and with a width proportional to... 

The Washburn model is consistent with recent studies by Rye and co-workers of liquid flow in V-shaped grooves [49] however, the experiments are unable to distinguish between this and more sophisticated models. Equation XIII-8 is also used in studies of wicking. Wicking is the measurement of the rate of capillary rise in a porous medium to determine the average pore radius [50], surface area [51] or contact angle [52]. 

Wicke-Kallenbach experiment would incorrectly predict the flux in the second experiment if used in a simple Fick equation of the form (10.31). However, if the isobaric flux measurements had been interpreted in terms of... 

Here in eq. (38) "EpqfpQN a.pag is new Hartree-Fock operator for a new fermions (25), (26), operator Y,pQRsy>pQR a Oq 0s%] is a new fermion correlation operator and Escf is a new fermion Hartree-Fock energy. Our new basis set is obtained by diagonalizing the operator / from eq. (36). The new Fermi vacuum is renormalized Fermi vacuum and new fermions are renormalized electrons. The diagonalization of/ operator (36) leads Jo coupled perturbed Hartree-Fock (CPHF) equations [ 18-20]. Similarly operators br bt) corresponds to renormalized phonons. Using the quasiparticle canonical transformations (25-28) and the Wick theorem the V-E Hamiltonian takes the form... 

Wicke (31), reacting spectroscopic electrode carbon at 0.1 atm. reactant pressure, gives the following equations for the rates of the carbon-oxygen and carbon-carbon dioxide reactions... 

If a chemical reaction is operated in a flow reactor under fixed external conditions (temperature, partial pressures, flow rate etc.), usually also a steady-state (i.e., time-independent) rate of reaction will result. Quite frequently, however, a different response may result The rate varies more or less periodically with time. Oscillatory kinetics have been reported for quite different types of reactions, such as with the famous Belousov-Zha-botinsky reaction in homogeneous solutions (/) or with a series of electrochemical reactions (2). In heterogeneous catalysis, phenomena of this type were observed for the first time about 20 years ago by Wicke and coworkers (3, 4) with the oxidation of carbon monoxide at supported platinum catalysts, and have since then been investigated quite extensively with various reactions and catalysts (5-7). Parallel to these experimental studies, a number of mathematical models were also developed these were intended to describe the kinetics of the underlying elementary processes and their solutions revealed indeed quite often oscillatory behavior. In view of the fact that these models usually consist of a set of coupled nonlinear differential equations, this result is, however, by no means surprising, as will become evident later, and in particular it cannot be considered as a proof for the assumed underlying reaction mechanism. 

Most studies have assumed equation (3) to apply, so that equation (1) takes the form of Fick s law, with the composite (effective) diffusion taking account of both bulk and Knudsen diffusion. For the stealy state operation of the Wicke-Kallenbach cell, this can often be a reasonable assumption. Smith et al (18) have also used this description of the transport processes to analyze the situation when a pulse of the trace component is applied at z=0 and the concentration is monitored at z=L. For sufficiently high flow rates of the carrier gas, the first moment of the response curve to a pulse input is ... 

If a sound theoretical adsorption wave expression could be applied to this problem, it would not only greatly reduce the number of experiments necessary to define completely the geometry of the bed, but could also be useful in the elucidation of the mechanism of adsorption of various gases on different types of adsorbents, from which information could be derived for their improvement or to indicate when the adsorbent has attained its maximum efficiency. Theoretical treatment of the problem has been made by various investigators (73,74,75). However, these workers did not have sufficient experimental data to support their views. The problem of adsorption by charcoal was treated by Wicke (76) and a number of useful differential equations derived. However, a real... 

It is apparent that different types of electrons should be averaged separately. According to Wick s theorem [1,4,6-8], the averages of the multiple products of the operators in Eq. (60) can be decoupled into the product of Green s functions (paired operators). To find a Dyson equation, we regroup the infinite sums in the following manner ... 

For the analysis of the various formalisms, manipulation of the equations, generating normal product of terms via Wick s theorem, and particularly for indicating how the proofs of the several different linked cluster theorems are achieved, we shall make frequent use of diagrams. For the sake of uniformity, we shall mostly adhere to the Hugenholtz convention/1/. All the constituents of the diagrams will be operators in normal order with respect to suitable closed-shell determinant taken as the vacuum. We shall refer to the creation/annihilation operators with respect to this vacuum after the h-p transformation.The hamiltonian H will also be taken to be in normal order with respect to... 

The numerous interstices in the cell walls of xylem vessels form a mesh-work of many small, tortuous capillaries, which can lead to an extensive capillary rise of water in a tree. A representative radius for these channels in the cell wall might be 5 nm. According to Equation 2.2b, a capillary of 5 nm radius could support a water column of 3 km—far in excess of the needs of any plant. The cell wall could thus act as a very effective wick for water rise in its numerous small interstices, although such movement up a tree is generally too slow to replace the water lost by transpiration. 

A stability analysis for such a system was performed by Wicke et al. (98), who modeled the H2/O2 reaction on Pt catalysts. The reaction was simplified to two differential equations that are easily treated analytically ... 

The rate processes of diffusion and catalytic reaction in simple square stochastic pore networks have also been subject to analysis. The usual second-order diffusion and reaction equation within individual pore segments (as in Fig. 2) is combined with a balance for each node in the network, to yield a square matrix of individual node concentrations. Inversion of this 2A matrix gives (subject to the limitation of equimolar counterdiffusion) the concentration profiles throughout the entire network [14]. Figure 8 shows an illustrative result for a 20 X 20 network at an intermediate value of the Thiele modulus. The same approach has been applied to diffusion (without reaction) in a Wicke-Kallenbach configuration. As a result of large and small pores being randomly juxtaposed inside a network, there is a 2-D distribution of the frequency of pore fluxes with pore diameter. 

Following this analysis Q depends on two eapillary structure parameters - the mean hydraulic pore diameter and the inner diameter of the porous wick. To find the Qmax we need equation (3.9) analyze for the extreme function finding. Due to the temperature dependenee of the thermo-physical properties of the working fluid the maximum heat flow Q ,ax will be different for different saturated vapor temperatures Tsat in the heat pipe transport zone. Figure 8. For different angles of heat pipe inelination to the horizon we need to determine Qmax at the worst situation with the point of view of the heat transfer, when the heat pipe evaporator is above the heat pipe eondenser, vertieal (inverted) heat pipe disposition. 

On Fig. 5-6 heat transfer coefficient in LITP as a function of the heat load on the evaporator is shown. It is clear, that the most effective heat transfer coefficient (4500 W/m K) is for the heat flow range 700 W - 900 W, when LFIP thermal resistance R is minimal. For this heat load maximal surface of evaporation inside the pores is activated. For LFIP the maximum pressure rise due in the wick can be evaluated by Laplace equation ... 

The concepts of normal ordering and Wick s theorem provide the mathematical tools needed to derive programmable coupled cluster equations from the more formal expressions given in Eqs. [50] and [51]. If we truncate the cluster operator such that T = Tj + T2 insert it into the similarity-transformed normal-ordered Hamiltonian, H = e lij e, we obtain... 

Applying Wick s theorem to the operator strings in the first term on the right-hand side of this equation gives... 

Relative to direct application of the anticommutation relations for annihilation and creation operators, Wick s theorem helps to dramatically reduce the tedium involved in deriving the rather complicated amplitude equations above. However, as illustrated by Eq. [151], Wick s theorem still does not go far enough. Even if the cluster operator is truncated to include only double excitations, the resulting algebra provides many opportunities for error. Wlien even... 

As an example, consider the CCSD energy equation derived earlier in Eq. [134] using Wick s theorem. Each term of the general expression... 

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