Oscillating Chemical Reactions

这项研究，实验和计算的一部分， 物理化学课程，是在化学领域 动力学。 它将从理论上和实验上研究 振荡化学反应 一些振荡的机理研究 系统将执行。 这些研究将采用 经典实验方法和快速反应技术 例如停流以及广泛的计算机模拟。 速率定律和速率常数将被确定为几个 在这些系统中起重要作用的基本过程。 还将研究耦合化学振荡器 包括当两个振荡器相互作用时产生的那些， 通过质量流或通过常见的化学物质。 新的计算方法将被用来解释 实验获得的结果，包括影响 搅拌和混合，化学波的传播 在重力场的影响下， 电场对化学传播的影响 当离子在化学中起重要作用时， 反应，以及反应时间变化的反应 随机的。

This research, part of the Experimental and Computational Physical Chemistry Programs, is in the area of Chemical Kinetics. It will theoretically and experimentally investigate oscillatory chemical reactions. Mechanistic investigations of a number of oscillatory systems will be performed. These studies will employ both classical experimental methods and fast reaction techniques such as stopped-flow as well as extensive computer simulation. Rate laws and rate constants will be determined for several elementary processes that play important roles in these systems. Coupled chemical oscillators will also be investigated including those that arise when two oscillators interact either via mass flow or through common chemical species. New computation methods will be used to explain the experimentally obtained results including the effects of stirring and mixing, the propagation of waves of chemical reaction under the influence of a gravitational field, the influence of electric fields on the propagation of chemical waves when ions play an important role in the chemistry of the reaction, and reactions in which the reaction time varies stochastically.