Nonlinear macrokinetics of heat and mass transfer and chemical or electrochemical reactions (Q1434595)

The author considers the nonlinear macrokinetics of heat and mass transfer together with chemical and electrochemical reactions.The nonlinear systems under consideration are described by Marcelin-de Donder type equations containing exponential terms with respect to Planck chemical potential and temperature reciprocal, that simultaneously are analytical expressions characterizing the transport of the substance or energy by the energy transfer. The significance of nonlinear chemical (electrochemical) resistance and affinity is stressed together with the restrictiveness of the discrete energy barrier. An effort is made to replace the logarithmic chemical resistance by its local counterpart in order to describe the chemical transformation as a motion through the energy barrier treated as a continuum. The results show that the path of chemical complex bends into a direction that ensures its shape associated with longest residence time in regions of lower resistivity. These properties make it possible to predict shapes of chemical paths.