CanteraPFR

Provides several variations of a plug-flow reactor (PFR) model constructed over Cantera framework of chemical kinetics. These models range from isothermal to predefined wall profiles variations of PFR.

Installation

For detailed instructions, read INSTALL_.

.. _INSTALL: https://github.com/waltermateriais/CanteraPFR/blob/master/INSTALL.rst

Linux

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04.

1. Install libopenblas-dev, libboost-dev (or equivalent) with your package manager.
2. Install scons with pip, conda or your package manager.
3. Run ./get_cantera.sh and wait for completion.
4. Run make and wait for completion.

Cygwin (Windows)

Tested on Windows 10.

1. Double-click get_cygwin.bat and wait for completion.
2. Double-click cygwin\\Cygwin.bat to open a terminal.
3. In terminal, move to this directory with cd.
4. Run make and wait for completion.

Documentation

Only after building the project, otherwise Sphinx will not be able to import!

In order to generate the documentation, go to directory CanteraPFR/doc/ and run make. This will provide a list of types you can compile the documentation. The default format is make html and this is already compiled with library is built. Documentation will be generated under CanteraPFR/doc/build/<type>.

Contribute

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have suggestions or wish to request new functionalities. I still have a lot of materials from my PhD to organize and make available here. This will comprise, depending on my free time, a PFR with imposed wall temperature, an adiabatic PFR (adapted from here_), and an automatic skeletal mechanism generation with DRG method.

.. _here: https://github.com/Cantera/cantera-jupyter/blob/master/reactors/1D_pfr_surfchem.ipynb

Email: waltermateriais@gmail.com

Limitations

1. Cantera shared library failed on Cygwin!
2. For some weird reason Sundials 3.1.0 does not work with Cython modules (although binaries compiled with it run just fine).