CHEME 6420

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CHEME 6420
Chemical Kinetics and Transport

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: CHEME 3900 or equivalent.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6924 CHEME 6420   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Engstrom, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person