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Title: Chemkin-II: A Fortran chemical kinetics package for the analysis of gas-phase chemical kinetics

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5681118· OSTI ID:5681118

This document is the user's manual for the second-generation Chemkin package. Chemkin is a software package for whose purpose is to facilitate the formation, solution, and interpretation of problems involving elementary gas-phase chemical kinetics. It provides an especially flexible and powerful tool for incorporating complex chemical kinetics into simulations of fluid dynamics. The package consists of two major software components: an Interpreter and Gas-Phase Subroutine Library. The Interpreter is a program that reads a symbolic description of an elementary, user-specified chemical reaction mechanism. One output from the Interpreter is a data file that forms a link to the Gas-Phase Subroutine Library. This library is a collection of about 100 highly modular Fortran subroutines that may be called to return information on equation of state, thermodynamic properties, and chemical production rates.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/ER
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DR00789
OSTI ID:
5681118
Report Number(s):
SAND-89-8009; ON: DE90000917
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English