Published 1995
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Book Section - Chapter
Studies of Electron-Molecule Collisions on Massively Parallel Computers
- Creators
- Winstead, Carl
- McKoy, Vincent
- Other:
- Yarkony, David R.
Abstract
Electron- molecule collisions occur in a wide variety of contexts. The essential ingredients are physical conditions that permit the presence of molecules - which have dissociation energies on the order of a few electron volts or eV (1 eV = 11,600 K) - and that simultaneously permit the presence of free electrons. If these electrons are produced by ionization of neutral matter, their generation requires on the order of 5-15 eV of energy, enough to dissociate most molecules. Thus systems in which electron- molecule collisions are important are generally far from thermal equilibrium.
Additional Information
© 1995 by World Scientific Publishing Co. We wish to acknowledge the contributions of our collaborators, Paul Hipes, Howard Pritchard, Qiyan Sun and Marco Lima, to the work presented here. We also wish to thank Paul Messina and the staff of the Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facility for providing the excellent working environment in which our program development and calculations have been done. Financial support by the National Science Foundation, by the IBM-Caltech Cooperative Agreement, by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization through the Army Research Office is gratefully acknowledged.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 62320
- DOI
- 10.1142/9789812832115_0011
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20151123-094423742
- NSF
- IBM-Caltech Cooperative Agreement
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Army Research Office
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- Series Name
- Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 2