Hi Dave, About how much longer do you think it will be b4 you release the lastest version? Paul ... almost ... mechanism ... the 'buildwin' ... describing ... ...
I have just now posted the latest source code for Cantera at the sourceforge site (cantera-1.5.3-src.zip), along with a document describing how to build...
Dave, indeed it is possible to overload a Matlab built-in function. All I got to do was put the Cantera toolbox folder at the beginning of the Matlab path. I...
Hello all, I have just installed Cantera-1.5.1, but when I attempt to run it from the python interface I receive the following error: Python 2.3.2 (#1, Dec 3...
Hi, I'm having major probs. installing "cantera", on an SGI origin 200 (server class system) running SGI Irix 6.5.6 w/ gnu compilers, v. 3.3.2, gcc, g++, g77,...
Brian, It is failing during build of the Cantera Python package, but it does not seem to be a Cantera problem. It is complaining that some long double math...
I have added a Windows binary installer for the latest version of Cantera (1.5.3). It contains the Python interface, MATLAB toolbox, demos for both, and some...
Dear Goodwin, Would you like to tell me how to use the windows binary installer cantera153.msi? When I type the "configure" to run the configuration script in...
To run the *binary* installer, you don't need to have cygwin or run 'configure.' That is for building Cantera from the source code on Windows. All you need to...
When I double-clicked on the msi file to lanch it, I was informed that this installation packet can not be opened and I should confirm it a application...
'msi' files are used by the Windows Installer, which is the standard way to install software on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The capability to use these files...
Dear Goodwin, Thank you very much for your kind help. I type './configure', and the configure script starts to work. However, configuration could not find the...
Dear Professor Goodwin and the group: I tried to build a stirred-reactor following the example given in the "Zero-Dimensional Kinetics" documentation. I got...
Dear Mr. Goodwin, I´m a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich and using Cantera for the simulation of gas compression up to auto-ignition. With...
Thomas, It is currently not possible to specify a function for the rate at which a wall moves from Matlab, but you can do it from Python. If you want to run...
A good way to request an enhancement or new feature in Cantera is to use the 'RFE' feature at the Cantera Sourceforge site. This insures that your request...
Dave, or anyone else out there. I was trying to convert a ck2 file to a ctml file using the ImportGasMix command in Matlab (Windows). I get the following...
Paul, It is trying to interpret it as a cti file, not a ck2 file. If you look in IdealGasMix.m, it only converts files from Chemkin format that end in '.inp'....
Dave, I have succeeded installing Cantera 1.53 on my computer and now it starts to work. I hope it can simulate a PECVD process. I remember that Dr. D. G....
Professor Goodwin, My company is trying to get aquainted with cantera so that we can stop using chemkin, which is exclusively what we use at this time for PSR,...
Darin, Try running python example 'mix1.py'. This uses a Valve object, and works for me. One thing that would likely cause a segmentation violation is if the...
Thank you. The python code does indeed work, but I converted that example exactally to C++ and as soon as you advance the solution is when the core dump...
Dear Prof. Goodwin, I am looking to add ion species to the kinetic mechanism of GRI-mech so I can simulate a methane-air flame. Is there a standard way of ...
Mike, All you have to do is to use the special 'element' E to represent the charge of ions. For example, OH^- would contain 1 'atom' of element E, and H+...
In tut1.m, it says that I can set Entropy and Volume as a pair, however, I can't seem to make this happen in practice. This is what happens for a simple...
Anybody got any idea how to handle pure liquids in CANTERA? I've created my own CTI file for liquid water (hacked, in part from the nasa.cti file). However,...
Rob - This is a bug in the set.m method of class Solution. This has been corrected in the latest release. You can fix it be replacing cantera/@Solution/set.m...