The Transfer of Molecular Energies by Collision: Recent Quantum Treatments [electronic resource] / by Franco Antonio Gianturco
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- Gianturco, Franco A., 1938-
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- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1979.
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- 1. A Résumé of Quantum Mechanical Potential Scattering -- 1.1. General formulation of the problem -- 1.2. Solutions of the radial equation -- 1.3. The method of partial waves -- 1.4. Some properties of ??. The Born approximation -- 1.5. Properties of the S-matrix: bound states and resonances -- 1.6. Classical and semiclassical scattering,a set of definitions -- References -- 2. Potential Energy Hypersurface Calculations for Simple Systems -- 2.1. Kinematic considerations -- 2.2. General development of a priori method -- 2.3. Some approximate treatments -- 2.4. The electron gas model -- 2.5. A survey of recent applications -- References -- 3. Rotational and Vibrational Inelasticity in Molecular Encounters -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Quantum treatments of inelastic collisions -- 3.3. The rotational behaviour of molecules -- 3.4. Rotational excitation in atom-molecule collisions: the SF reference frame -- 3.5. Rotational excitation in atom-molecule collision: the helicity representation -- 3.6. The vibro-rotational extension -- 3.7. Molecule- molecule inelastic encounters -- 3.8. Applications -- References -- 4. Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Rotovibrational Cross Section Calculations -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The CS approach -- 4.3. The sudden approximation methods -- 4.4. The effective potential treatment -- 4.5. The BSA treatments of purely vibrational inelasticity -- 4.6. The LD simplifications -- 4.7. The distorted wave approximations -- 4.8. General conclusions -- References -- 5. Numerical Methods for the Coupled Equations: A Survey -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The De Vogelaere’s method -- 5.3. The Numerov methods -- 5.4. The methods of piecewise analytic solutions -- 5.5. The solutions via integral equations -- 5.6. The coupled channel R-matrix methods -- 5.7. The variable phase methods -- References -- 6. Rotovibrational Relaxation Models in Simple Gases -- 6.1. Introductions -- 6.2. An outline of experiments -- 6.3. The rate equations -- 6.4. The H2 — He relaxations and other examples -- References.
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