Abstract
In the preceding chapter we introduced the idea of elementary molecular processes and showed that they provide a natural description of bimolecular collision dynamics and chemical kinetics. By adopting a statistical interpretation of the transition rate for elementary processes, it was possible to develop a statistical description of the Boltzmann theory and to generalize the linear Onsager theory of concentration fluctuations for chemical reactions. The idea of elementary processes seems to be tailor-made for describing transport processes like chemical reactions which are caused directly by molecular collisions. In fact, all dissipative processes which transport extensive variables have their origin in molecular events, and the language of elementary processes turns out to be a natural one to describe their effects. In this chapter we develop the general theory of elementary processes in a form that is applicable to a wide range of transport processes.
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Keizer, J. (1987). Mechanistic Statistical Theory of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics. In: Statistical Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1054-2_4
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