Energy Analyses from Hamiltonian Expressions of Chemical Kinetics
Abstract
Rate equations can be easily cast in a Hamiltonian form making them amenable to a wealth of established techniques.* We show that energy relations follow from such formulations. These energy relations express per-particle energies for reactants and are often easier to solve than the related rate equations. Except for revealing some invariant quantities, the energy expressions seem of modest help in solving the original rate equations. Nevertheless, the energy expressions do carry useful time-independent information about various reactions as we illustrate with examples. *Finkel, R. W. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2001, 105, 9219
- Publication:
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APS New England Section Spring Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- April 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002APS..NES.C2008F