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I'm trying the following Mathematica command to simplify an expression by substitution of a known constant, but it's not performing the substitution. Any ideas why?

FullSimplify[((krRA + aRA) (kfRL L aRL + aR (krRL + aRL)))/(kfRA aRA (krRL + aRL)), Assumptions -> kmL == (aR (krRL + aRL))/(kfRL aRL), Assumptions -> {kfRL > 0, aRL > 0, kfRL aRL > 0}]
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write your equation like this with assumption 

eq = FullSimplify[((krRA + aRA) (kfRL L aRL + aR (krRL + aRL)))/(kfRA aRA (krRL + aRL)), Assumptions -> {kfRL > 0, aRL > 0, kfRL aRL > 0}]

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Solve you substitution with respect to a variable available in the eq! let's choose aR to represent equation with respect to them so we substitute them in first equation eq.

sub = Solve[kmL == (aR (krRL + aRL))/(kfRL aRL), aR] // Flatten /. Rule -> Equal

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use replacement or substitution as follow to get your simplified expression

eq /. sub

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks! I'm aware of this technique of using replacement rules to perform substitutions. But I'm wondering why the method of using the Simplify command to do this doesn't work. According to the documentation, the Simplify command should be able to perform the substitution. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 16:58
  • $\begingroup$ @AbedAlnaif I suspect the reason your method does not work with Simplify is that you are expecting Simplify to replace something small and simple with something larger and more complicated. I suspect if you used your same Simplify method in reverse and gave it the larger and more complicated expression with your assumption that it would happily replace the larger expression with kfRL That is because it is trying to find the smallest and simplest form of the result. Does that seem understandable? $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 18:46

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