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Sensivity Analysis of Chemically Reacting Systems

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Modelling of Chemical Reaction Systems

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The complexity of systems of chemical reactions makes it difficult to determine the effect uncertainties in rate constants and other parameters have on the behavior of the species concentrations. Mathematically, the sensitivity analysis of a system of chemical reactions consists in the problem of determining the effect of uncertainties in parameters and initial conditions on the solution of a set of ordinary differential equations. Sensitivity analysis procedures may be classed as deterministic or stochastic in nature. Currently available sensitivity analysis techniques are reviewed, and the entire problem is presented in a unified framework.

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  1. Institut für Angewandte Physikalische Chemie, der Universität Heidelberg, Germany

    Klaus H. Ebert

  2. Institut für Angewandte Mathermatik, der Universität Heidelberg, Germany

    Peter Deuflhard  & Willi Jäger  & 

  3. Sonderforschungsbereich 123, Stochastische Mathematische Modelle, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 293, D-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    Klaus H. Ebert , Peter Deuflhard  & Willi Jäger ,  & 

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Tilden, J.W., Costanza, V., McRae, G.J., Seinfeld, J.H. (1981). Sensivity Analysis of Chemically Reacting Systems. In: Ebert, K.H., Deuflhard, P., Jäger, W. (eds) Modelling of Chemical Reaction Systems. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68220-9_6

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