Achieving minimum cost and time in reservoir drilling requires evaluating the effects of the drilling parameters on the penetration rate and constructing a drilling rate estimator model. Several drilling rate models have been presented using the drilling parameters. Among these, the Bourgoyne and Young (BY) model is widely utilized in order to estimate the penetration rate. This model relates s...

As experimental techniques in biophysics have progressed at the single molecule level, there has been considerable interest in understanding how external mechanical influences (such as load) affect chemical reactions. The majority of biophysical studies investigating load-dependent kinetics use an equation where the rate constant exponentially depends on force, which is sometimes called Bell's ...

We compute the quantum rate constant based on two extended stationary phase approximations to the imaginary-time formulation of the quantum rate theory. The optimized stationary phase approximation to the imaginary-time flux-flux correlation function employs the optimized quadratic reference system to overcome the inaccuracy of the quadratic expansion in the standard stationary phase approximat...

where the values of the forward (kd) and reverse (kp) rate constants may be different from those in the ground state because of differences in the properties of the 2-naphthol in these two states (for example, Ka 6= K ∗ a in part I). The objective of this experiment is to determine the deprotonation/protonation rate constants of 2-naphthol in its lowest excited singlet state in aqueous solution...

The low-temperature rotational (de-) excitation of C3 (X 1 g ) by collisions with He ( S ) is studied using an ab initio potential energy surface (PES). This PES has been calculated using the singleand double-excitation coupledcluster approach with noniterative perturbational treatment of triple excitations [CCSD(T)] and the augmented correlation-consistent triplebasis set (aug-cc-pVTZ) with bo...

Solutions are proposed for the central problem of estimating the reaction rate coefficients in homogeneous kinetics. The first is based upon the fact that the right hand side of a kinetic differential equation is linear in the rate constants, whereas the second one uses the technique of neural networks. This second one is discussed deeply and its advantages, disadvantages and conditions of appl...

In this work we pose the question how reliable the Michaelis constant is as an enzyme kinetic parameter in situations when the MichaelisMenten equation is not a good approximation of the true substrate dynamics as it may be in the case of metabolic processes in living cells. We compare the Michaelis-Menten substrate-product kinetics with the complete substrateenzyme-product kinetics induced by ...