A Generalized Technique For Eliminating Species In Complex Chemical Equilibrium Calculations
Date
1964-09
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Rand Corporation
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This Memorandum is one in a continuing series of RAND
publications dealing with theoretical and computational
questions which have arisen in connection with the RAND
program of research on rocket fuels and propellents and
in biology and physiology. It details a method by which
a multi- or single-phase chemical equilibrium problem with
a large number of different chemical species can be replaced
by one with relatively few species. The purpose of this research is to find methods for transforming complex
problems into problems which are more amenable to
numerical solution. This Memorandum is concerned with a technique first
developed in an earlier Paper, On the Reduction of Certain
Multiplicative Chemical Equilibrium Systems to Mathematically
Equivalent Additive Systems, P-2419, by G. B. Dantzig and
J. C. DeHaven. The present Memorandum generalizes the
technique to systems more complex than those to which the
technique of the earlier paper is readily applicable. The
basic approach of the previous paper is described briefly, but
the reader should be familiar with P-2419 for certain
explanatory and illustrative material which has not been
included in the present paper.
Keywords
Generalized Technique, Eliminating Species, Chemical Equilibrium, Calculations