Conservation-dissipation structure of chemical reaction systems.
In this Brief Report, we show that balanced chemical reaction systems governed by the law of mass action have an elegant conservation-dissipation structure. From this structure a number of important conclusions can be easily deduced. In particular, with the help of this structure we can rigorously justify the classical partial equilibrium approximation in chemical kinetics.
Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. wayong@tsinghua.edu.cn
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