Cantera is an open-source suite of tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.

For those new to Cantera, we present here a set of short tutorials to familiarize you with Cantera’s basic functionality and capabilities, give some examples of how to work Cantera within your preferred …

Examples and input files distributed with Cantera are provided for illustration purposes only. They are intended to demonstrate features of the software and typical workflows, with individual examples …

Packaged versions of Cantera for Fedora, Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and OpenSUSE are no longer available due to the lack of a package maintainer for these distributions.

Python Examples # See also To find examples covering a specific topic, see the index of example tags. If you’re just getting started with Cantera, see our Python Tutorial for an introduction to the Cantera …

All online and in-person interactions and communications related to Cantera are governed by the Cantera Code of Conduct. This code of conduct sets expectations for the community to ensure that …

Directories on Cantera’s input file path will be searched for the specified file. In the case of an XML file, the <reactions> nodes are assumed to be children of the <reactionsData> node in a document with a …

These sections document the classes and functions that define the Cantera interface for each available programming language, as well as the structure of Cantera’s YAML mechanism files.

The first way is to get information about all of the elements stored in Cantera. The three attributes num_elements_defined, element_symbols, and element_names can be accessed by:

Units are a combination of kmol, m^3 and s, that depend on the rate expression for the reaction. Deprecated since version 2.6: Behavior to change after Cantera 2.6; for Cantera 2.6, rate constants …