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  2. Rate equation - Wikipedia

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    If the concentration of a reactant remains constant (because it is a catalyst, or because it is in great excess with respect to the other reactants), its concentration can be included in the rate constant, leading to a pseudo–first-order (or occasionally pseudo–second-order) rate equation. For a typical second-order reaction with rate ...

  3. Rate-determining step - Wikipedia

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    In fact, however, the observed reaction rate is second-order in NO 2 and zero-order in CO, [5] with rate equation r = k[NO 2] 2. This suggests that the rate is determined by a step in which two NO 2 molecules react, with the CO molecule entering at another, faster, step. A possible mechanism in two elementary steps that explains the rate ...

  4. Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations - Wikipedia

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    For example, the second-order equation y′′ = −y can be rewritten as two first-order equations: y′ = z and z′ = −y. In this section, we describe numerical methods for IVPs, and remark that boundary value problems (BVPs) require a different set of tools. In a BVP, one defines values, or components of the solution y at more than one ...

  5. Order of accuracy - Wikipedia

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    Consider , the exact solution to a differential equation in an appropriate normed space (, | | | |). Consider a numerical approximation u h {\displaystyle u_{h}} , where h {\displaystyle h} is a parameter characterizing the approximation, such as the step size in a finite difference scheme or the diameter of the cells in a finite element method .

  6. Continuous stirred-tank reactor - Wikipedia

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    Plugging in the first CSTR equation to the second: = (+) Therefore for m identical CSTRs in series: C A m = C A o ( 1 + k τ ) m {\displaystyle C_{Am}={\frac {C_{Ao}}{(1+k\tau )^{m}}}} When the volumes of the individual CSTRs in series vary, the order of the CSTRs does not change the overall conversion for a first order reaction as long as the ...

  7. Thiele modulus - Wikipedia

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    Then the Thiele modulus for a first order reaction is: = From this relation it is evident that with large values of , the rate term dominates and the reaction is fast, while slow diffusion limits the overall rate. Smaller values of the Thiele modulus represent slow reactions with fast diffusion.

  8. Integrating factor - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, an integrating factor is a function that is chosen to facilitate the solving of a given equation involving differentials.It is commonly used to solve non-exact ordinary differential equations, but is also used within multivariable calculus when multiplying through by an integrating factor allows an inexact differential to be made into an exact differential (which can then be ...

  9. MUSCL scheme - Wikipedia

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    In this paper he constructed the first high-order, total variation diminishing (TVD) scheme where he obtained second order spatial accuracy. The idea is to replace the piecewise constant approximation of Godunov's scheme by reconstructed states, derived from cell-averaged states obtained from the previous time-step. For each cell, slope limited ...