CHEME 6420

Chemical Kinetics and Transport

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

Topics include microscopic and macroscopic viewpoints; connections between phenomenological chemical kinetics and molecular reaction dynamics; reaction cross sections, potential energy surfaces, and dynamics of biomolecular collisions; molecular beam scattering; transition state theory. Unimolecular reaction dynamics; complex chemically reacting systems: reactor stability, multiple steady states, oscillations, and bifurcation; reactions in heterogeneous media; and free-radical mechanisms in combustion and pyrolysis.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: CHEME 3900 or equivalent.

Comments Formerly CHEME 7130.

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