Cantera is an open-source chemical kinetics software used for solving chemically reacting laminar flows. It has been used as a third party library in external reacting flow simulation codes, such as FUEGO and CADS, using Fortran

Fortran

Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...

, C++

C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

, etc. to evaluate properties and chemical source terms that appear in the application's governing equations. Cantera is developed by Prof. Dave Goodwin of California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...

. It is written in C++ and can be used from C++, Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

, Matlab

MATLAB

MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages,...

and Fortran.

External links

• Google Code hosting
• Presentation on Cantera features at NSF workshop
• Download link