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[April 28, 2004]
- For more gases you can get the mechanisms from Livermore national lab LLNL Database.
- I have converted two of the mechanisms in that database to the cti format that Cantera uses. CTI files. File isooctance.cti is for iso- octane. File heptane.cti is for heptane. To load these cti files into cantera try: gas = IdealGasMix('heptane.cti').
- I had some difficulty converting the other files in the LLNL database. If you want to try -or- if you find another mechanism in chemkin format, look at tut2.m in the Cantera/tutorials/Matlab directory. You can use the utility ck2ctml which is in the Cantera bin directory.
- Schedule has changed, check it out
- Turbine code from class is posted in the source directory
- The format for the final paper will be different than the past two. We will only write a single page (no exceptions!) summary of your research result. The journal Nature often has these articles under Brief Communications, important results though only the essence of the result is given with little detail. For example, here is a cool article about deadly shrimp. You should use the LaTex format 3 column format I am supplying. I have modified a style file from IEEE for our class. All the files are located here in the source directory. You should download all files and process in Latex to make sure you get the same results as the posted pdf file. Once everything works you should only modify the file paper.tex and paper.bib.
- Codes from class posted in the source directory. pistonCantera.m contains the code for compressing and igniting gases in a closed piston cylinder device. blowout.m contains the steady flow blowout calculation.
- The help file on Cantera's reactor objects is posted.
- Project topics are posted.
- Cantera codes from class are in the software source directory. The file h2o2Cantera.m has the constant temperature reaction of the H2-O2 system. The file igniteCantera.m has the constant internal energy ignition.