Cantera 2.3.0#
Published on January 19, 2017 | Full release on GitHub
Installation Options#
Conda / anaconda packages for Windows, Linux, and macOS via the
cantera
channel. See installation instructions for more details.Windows binary installers (downloads below; To use the Matlab toolbox on Windows, install both
Cantera-2.3.0-x64.msi
and one of the Python modules. The Python installers are standalone and do not require the base Cantera package. Installers are available Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, and Python 3.6. See detailed instructions for more.Ubuntu packages for 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) and 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) are available via the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~speth/+archive/ubuntu/cantera. Additional details available here.
Homebrew formula for macOS. See additonal instructions.
Download and compile the source code. Full instructions here.
Documentation#
Documentation for Cantera 2.3.0 can be found at https://cantera.org/documentation/docs-2.3/sphinx/html/index.html.
Changes in Cantera 2.3.0#
Highlights are listed here. See the full changelog for more.
Add ability to modify species data for existing Phase objects
Make species names case-preserving instead of case-sensitive, and allow colons in species names
Add option for Motz & Wise correction to sticking reactions
Implement enthalpy of formation sensitivity analysis for reactor networks
Implement the Cython function
advance_to_steady_state
for reactor networksEliminate most known 1D flame solver failures by improving Jacobian evaluation, and using better default initial grids and initial guesses
Introduce ‘auto’ option to
Sim1D.solve
to automatically try multiple initial gridsGeneralize initial profile generation for diffusion flames for arbitrary fuel/oxidizer combinations
Add general support for calculating adjoint sensitivities for 1D flames
Add a Twin Premixed Counterflow Flame class and example
Support conversion of surface mechanism files
Provide better error message for problematic reaction and thermo entries when converting input files
Add ‘nonreactant_orders’ option to allow non-reactant orders
Allow adding species / reactions from Python
Add new classes
Quantity
andSolutionArray
to PythonMake Python test suite runnable from an installed copy of the Python module
Introduced Continuous Integration testing using Travis CI and AppVeyor
Use Git submodules for Sundials, Eigen, Google Test, and libfmt if system versions are not installed
Use Sundials and Eigen to eliminate the need for bundled LAPACK
Added Conda build recipe and made binaries available through anaconda.org
Add support for Sundials 2.7
Deprecate unused classes, functions, arguments, and constants (see https://cantera.org/documentation/docs-2.3/doxygen/html/deprecated.html for details)
Add notices to documentation for classes with no tests or examples (see https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/issues/267)
Make clib usable as a pure C (not C++) interface and add tests