CHEME 6420 - Chemical Kinetics and Transport

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: CHEME 3900 or equivalent. Formerly CHEME 7130.

N. Abbott, R. Yang.

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.