IWNET12
IWNET12
Nonlinear and compatible with thermodynamics coupling of chemical
kinetics with mechanics
Vaclav Klika1, Miroslav Grmela2
1 Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
2 Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Abstract
Motivated by biological applications (e.g. bone tissue development and regeneration) we investigate coupling
between chemical kinetics and mechanics. Solutions to the coupled system of time evolution equations are
required to agree with thermodynamics. Rate coe cients arising in the resulting modi cation of the law
of mass action appear to depend in an appropriate way on the elds describing mechanics. Predictions of the
extended nonlinear chemical kinetics are compared with predictions of the previously developed linear extension
(valid only near chemical and mechanical equilibrium) and with results of experimental observations of certain
biological systems.
E-mail: vaclav.klika@gmail.com