Tutorials Manual

Chemkin 4.1.1
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1 Introduction
The CHEMKIN® software is designed for modeling many chemically reacting flow
configurations. This manual consists of tutorials that illustrate how to use the CHEMKIN
Reactor Models to address a variety of problems. The tutorials generally represent
realistic situations that might be encountered by practicing scientists or engineers.
They have been chosen to demonstrate the wide range of software capabilities, and
the different ways CHEMKIN can be used.
In this manual, we address three major categories of chemically-reacting flow
problems: Combustion problems are covered in Chapter 2, Catalysis in Chapter 3,
and Materials Processing in Chapter 4. Methods for analyzing chemical reaction
mechanism are covered in Chapter 5. In many cases, the same reactor models are
used for simulations in different categories of problems. Table 1-1 lists the tutorials in
this manual along with a cross-reference to the Reactor Models employed in that
tutorial.
Before working with the tutorials in this manual, we recommend that users first review Getting
Started with CHEMKIN to become familiar with the operation of the CHEMKIN Interface and the
available Reactor Models.
The files for the sample problems have been copied to a location specified by the user
during the CHEMKIN installation. On a Windows machine, the default location is
%userprofile%\chemkin\samples41. On a UNIX machine, the default location is
$HOME/chemkin/samples41. The sample-problem files have a uniform naming
convention based on the relevant Reactor Model name combined with a descriptor for
that specific system. For example, a project file called plasma_psr__chlorine.ckprj
uses the Plasma PSR Reactor Model, and involves chlorine chemistry. The data files
used for a given sample are located in subdirectories of the samples41 directory. For
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