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Import CHEMKIN General Chemical Reaction Files Using CFD-ACE-GUI

The Database Manager of CFD-ACE-GUI allows the user to Import CHEMKIN-III (Sandia Format) general chemical reaction files. Importing Chemkin files is an optional feature and requires a CHEMKIN-TRANS license. Contact your sales engineer to request a quote for this feature.

To import Chemkin files, the user has to perform the following steps:

Open the Database Manager from Tools -> Database.
Open the Chemkin Manager from File -> Import Chemkin (see figure 1).

Figure 1. Import Chemkin Manager option from the Database Manager
Specify the User Chemkin Files: Gas Reaction and/or Surface Reaction and/or Thermodynamic and/or Transport (see figure 2).

Figure 2. Chemkin Manager
Click on the Process Chemkin files button as shown in figure 2.

Once these files have been imported, all data will appear in the local section of each database (Species, Volume Reactions, Surface Reactions). The volume reaction imported from a Chemkin file is presented in figure 3 below.

Figure 3. Volume reaction data imported from a Chemkin file

If you have any questions about this feature or would like us to discuss other topics in the future, please let us know.

Regards,
Daniel Vinteler
ESI CFD Support Team

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