Design and implementation of a Grid application for direct calculations of reactive rates

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1022, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-107

  Faginas Lago, N ^a   Lombardi, A ^a   Pacifici, L ^a   Costantini, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atom diatom gas phase; Grid computing; Rate coefficients; Semiclassical theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884373007     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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