Geochemical Kinetics (EAS 6212)

Syllabus

Class Examples with Matlab:

Lecture 2:

Kinetics of a first-order reaction for the reversible reaction A <-> B:  ABrevkin.m

Lecture 4:

• Kinetics of a first-order reaction for the reaction A -> B:  A1stord.m

• Kinetics of a first-order reaction for the reaction A + B -> C:  AB1stord.m

Lecture 5:

Lecture 6:

k1/k2 ratio of two first-order parallel reactions leading to the same product (A -> Z and B -> Z): ABZkin.m

• Nitrification / Denitrification kinetics assuming constant oxygen, pH, and organic content: NitrDenitrkin.m

Lecture 21:

Central finite difference to solve the reactive transport equation at steady-state with a 1st order reaction term:   FdTrsp1.m

Additional Information for Assignments

Assignment 2:

Problem 1: input data file: Tdata.txt