CANTERA – Object-Oriented Software for Reacting Flows

CANTERA – Object-Oriented Software for Reacting Flows

Cantera is a suite of software tools for reacting flow problems and thermodynamics analysis.

Features:

• Thermodynamic and transport properties
• Non-ideal equations of state
• Chemical equilibrium
• Reactor networks
• Steady 1D flames
• Reaction path diagrams
• Heterogeneous chemistry
• Open source
• Object-oriented
• Multi-Platform
• Available at http://www.cantera.org

Cantera can be used from several popular programming / problemsolving environments. Interactive and scripting environments such as MATLAB and Python can be used for rapid problem solution and software prototyping. Cantera works with Fortran 90 and C++ for large-scale computation. Additional interfaces can be developed for any application that can call C functions (for example, Excel or Mathematica).

The Kernel

• A C++ class library
• Designed for performance:
  1. Property caching
  2. Virtual methods used sparingly
  3. Templates used to allow inlining at compile time
  4. Standard Template Library container classes used
  5. CPU-intensive code hand-optimized
• Uses standard open-source numerical libraries ” BLAS, LAPACK, CVODE

Download Cantera binaries, source code and documentation.

Binaries:

• Cantera Windows Installer, version 1.5.3
• Cantera for Windows Python module

Source Code:

• Cantera 1.5.3 Source Code

Documentation

• Introduction to Cantera
• Building Cantera on Windows
• C++ User””s Guide
• Cantera 1.2 Fortran 90 Manual
• Defining Phases and Interfaces
• Using Cantera From Fortran 77
• MixMaster
• Stirred Reactors

Links:
Cantera Homepage
Cantera Sourceforge Project
Cantera User””s Group
Frequently Asked Questions