The phrase "adapting existing models" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing modifications or changes made to pre-existing frameworks or systems in various contexts, such as research, technology, or business.
Example: "The team is focused on adapting existing models to better fit the new market demands."
Alternatives: "modifying current models" or "altering established models".
But rather than building a new vehicle platform as G.M. has done with the Volt, Chrysler plans to adapt existing models to electric power.
The method is based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and adapts existing models and criteria to the investigation field.
The same idea can be used to adapt existing models for common speakers to the needs of handicapped speakers.
Such situations have left practitioners with no other option than to adapt existing models for pore pressure prediction work, which in some cases have led to underbalanced drilling with its attendant problems.
They can adapt existing models of public engagement like Be More Than a Bystander, which has already spread to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Stampeders of the CFL.
A natural progression would thus to adapt existing models, to refine and expand them for adjacent metabolic pathways.
We have thus chosen to integrate and adapt existing models of this pathway [ 14, 15] in order to consider activation of the Erk pathway in an individual cell which occurs as a result of regions of intercellular contact with one or more neighbouring cells, through activation of EGFR by cell surface-presented cognate ligands.
The complex interactions among factors as found in this study, suggest that there should be value in adapting existing pond aquaculture models (e.g. Culberson and Piedrahita 1996) to explore in more detail the dynamic consequences of weather and climate in different culture systems on thermal and DO stratification.
J. P. (University of Delaware) and P. M. (Emory) introduced the idea of adopting and adapting existing materials using invasive species cases and models as examples.
