If the results are similar to or better than those predicted theoretically, the transformation is satisfactory.
Such preconditioners may be practically very efficient, however, their behavior is hard to predict theoretically.
The effect had been predicted theoretically by A. Smekal in 1923.
For reasons that are still under investigation, only a limited set of surfaces exhibit the theoretically predicted electrowetting behavior.
One chief area of study is the greenhouse effect and how to determine the onset of a theoretically predicted warming.
But by this reckoning, the number of neutrinos was only about a third of the theoretically predicted total.
Then, they maintain, repeated experiments and improvements in accuracy will always bring one's observations closer to the theoretically predicted results.
Some of properties of cyclic ozone have been predicted theoretically.
Electrodiffusiophoresis was theoretically predicted in 1980 - 82.
He justified this assumption by finding agreement between measured and theoretically predicted absorption spectra.