by Rodolfo Rodrigues on March 20th, 2012 at 2:20 pm in Didactic application, General, HOW-TO, Math package, Process simulation, Softwares
Tagged with Cantera, chemical equilibrium, combustion, object-oriented tool, python
An previous post presented Cantera, a package for thermodynamics, kinetic and transport calculations. Cantera is a function library with object-oriented features that can be use in C++, FORTRAN, MATLAB, and PYTHON applications. One of its main strength may be the functions for combustion problems. In this sense it is possible to do equilibrium and kinetic calculations.
Let us talk about an easy sample which you wish to calculate the adiabatic flame temperature for stoichiometric combustion of methane using air:
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by Rodolfo Rodrigues on February 1st, 2012 at 3:22 pm in Didactic application, HOW-TO, Process simulation, Softwares with 1 comment
Tagged with dynamic tank, EMSO, equation-based simulator, HOW-TO, LaTeX, process simulator
This is the last post of series simulating dynamic tanks using EMSO simulator. The first one shows the direct implementation of the dynamic tanks case using the modeling language of EMSO that applies concepts of object-oriented languages (part 1). The second one used (part 2) resources of EMSO GUI to link models to figures and create a block diagram of the process from the connection among them.
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by Rodolfo Rodrigues on August 10th, 2011 at 11:30 pm in Process simulation, Softwares with 2 comments
Tagged with c++, Cantera, chemical kinetics, chemical reactor engineering, fortran, linux, Matlab, object-oriented tool, open source, python
I feel comfortable writing some words about Cantera, an open source tool, because I have been an user for approximately 2 years. I will use words of project itself to introduce it:
Cantera is a suite of object-oriented software tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and/or transport processes. An object-oriented tool means a wide range of applications since independent compiled code to external software integration.
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by Rodolfo Rodrigues on July 9th, 2010 at 2:46 pm in HOW-TO, Process simulation, Softwares with 8 comments
Tagged with EMSO, HOW-TO, linux, Ubuntu 10.04, VRTherm
This is a short instruction to how to install EMSO on last Ubuntu version: 10.04 LTS (codename Lucid Lynx). First of all get the last releases of EMSO and VRTherm here. VRTherm is a thermodynamic properties package that works as a plugin of EMSO. Currently the last ones are emso-beta-linux2-i386-0.10.3.tar.gz and vrtherm-linux2-i386-1.4.2.tar.gz. So that untar them:
user@computer:$ tar xzvf emso-beta-linux2-i386-0.10.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf vrtherm-linux2-i386-1.4.2.tar.gz
If you want to have EMSO and VRTherm available for all users you should copy them to a common place:
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by Rodolfo Rodrigues on March 6th, 2010 at 2:08 pm in Didactic application, HOW-TO, Process simulation, Softwares with 3 comments
Tagged with dynamic tank, EMSO, equation-based simulator, process simulator
This is the second part of our text “Simulating a dynamic tank in EMSO”. The first part shows the basic theory about EMSO modeling language applied to model a dynamic tank. The code to a single tank was implemented and expanded to a set of tanks in series.
Fig. 1. Dynamic tanks in series.
