CHEME 6420

CHEME 6420

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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 CHEME 3900 or equivalent.

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4817 CHEME 6420   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Engstrom, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person