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Welcome
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Cantera is an open-source suite of object-oriented software tools for problems
involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and/or transport processes. The
software automates the chemical kinetic, thermodynamic, and transport
calculations so that the users can efficiently incorporate detailed chemical
thermo-kinetics and transport models into their calculations.

The code utilizes object-oriented concepts for robust yet flexible phase models,
and algorithms are generalized so that users can explore different phase models
with minimal changes to their overall code. Currently, Cantera can be used from
Python and Matlab, or in applications written in C/C++ and Fortran 90.  Cantera
also provides a limited number of solvers for time-dependent reactor networks
and steady one-dimensional reacting flows.

Cantera is currently used for applications including combustion, detonations,
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, fuel cells, batteries, aqueous
electrolyte solutions, plasmas, and thin film deposition.

Documentation
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   about
   faq
   Installation Instructions <install>
   Compiliation Instructions <compiling/index>
   language-interfaces
   cti/index
   reactors
   flames
   cython/index
   matlab/index
   cxx-guide/index
   glossary

   Cantera Development Homepage <https://github.com/Cantera/cantera>

* **C++ Documentation**

  * `Module Organization <../../doxygen/html/modules.html>`_
  * `Index of Classes <../../doxygen/html/classes.html>`_
  * `Deprecation List <../../doxygen/html/deprecated.html>`_

Indexes
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`search`