I was reading some journal articles today to verify the that 25 reactions I randomly chose to describe my experiment were actually physcially possible.  So far I've been inputting data and using it with already defined equations and seeing if it makes physical sense.  For those not in the scientific know this translates into the equivalent of Numerical Madlibs.  Nothing special. 

 

But today I came across the name for these types of calculations.  Bear in mind that this is nothings special and takes more strength in the face of tenacity than brains.  According to the Journal of Physical Chemistry I am carrying out Quasirelativistic Density-Functional Calculations!  Whooho!  I can at least describe my research and sound like a mini-Einstien, even if I don't know what I'm doing.

 

 

 

"Development of Surface Reaction Mechanism for

the Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane on Dual Bed

Platinum/Nickel Short Contact Time Reactors

using Quasirelativistic Density-Functional Calculations

and Computational Fluid Dynamic Software"

 

by The Plain Clothes Ninja

 

(an awful lot to say I've taken an experimental crapshoot and am now

trying to explain my reason for having spent so much money on it)