Week 5.1 - Compact Notation Derivation for a simple Mechanism
For this challenge, you will derive the reaction rate ODEs & production of each species for the simple reaction mechanism given below. You will have to use the compact notation that was discussed in the Week 5 lecture videos (Part 1&2) and write down the desired matrices.
Note1: First you need to find the net reaction rate for all four reactions using reactant and product matrices. Then find production of each species using matrix notation w.r.t net reaction rate.
The multistep equations given are as follows:
- CO + O2 ⇌ CO2 + O
- O + H2o ⇌ OH + OH
- CO + OH ⇌ CO2 + H
- H + O2 ⇌ OH + O
RATE OF CHANGE OF CONCENTRATION FOR CO:


