CHEMKIN

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CHEMKIN is commercial computational chemistry software used to solve reaction kinetics problems. The software is used in the field of microelectronics , in the automotive sector for combustion processes and in the chemical processing industry.

The software was developed from 1980 by Sandia National Laboratories and programmed in Fortran . CHEMKIN consists of two Fortran blocks:

  • the interpreter (Fortran code)
  • the gas phase subroutine library (Fortran code)

and a thermodynamics database.

From 1998, Cantera is developed as a free alternative at the California Institute of Technology .

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