Posted in 2019
NSF awards Cantera Project $2.5M through 2022
- 09 September 2019
We are proud to announce that NSF has awarded funds to members of the development team and steering committee, under the Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program. The proposal, titled Extensible and community-driven thermodynamics, transport, and chemical kinetics modeling with Cantera: expanding to diverse scientific domains, was awarded $2.5M USD to enable new scientific modeling capabilities, improvements to the Cantera software architecture, and perform community development activities. These activities will help further Cantera’s primary objective, which is a generalizable software package to assist users in a variety of fields with a range of calculations related to thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and species transport.
GSoC 2019 Fourth Blog
- 20 July 2019
After two months, the functions of ChemCheck are fairly robust. We improved editing and ck2yaml error reporting pages this week, and we added pages for user account management.
GSoC Third Blog – Function update
- 06 July 2019
As we planned after the first evaluation, the functionality of ChemCheck should be more robust. File replacement was added, and users are able to update and delete files arbitrarily.
GSoC 2019 First Evaluation
- 22 June 2019
Thanks to the instructions from mentors Richard West (@rwest), Bryan Weber (@bryanwweber) and Kyle Niemeyer (@kyleniemeyer), the website is functioning after the first month, and we will keep improving it in the rest of the GSoC time. From what I mentioned in the last post, ChemCheck is a web-based application for visualizing and diagnosing syntax and chemical errors in Chemkin and Cantera input files. In this case, we created basic functions that allow users to convert their mechanism files to Cantera YAML input files easily (Cantera input file is going to be changed from CTI file to YAML file, so we made some adjustments as well).
GSoC 2019: PyCanChemAndYouCan2 (ChemCheck)
- 07 June 2019
Hi everyone! I’m Chao Xu, a master student in Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. I am working on a Cantera project in GSoC 2019 with my mentor Richard West (@rwest) and other Cantera committee members (@bryanwweber, @kyleniemeyer). I am glad to introduce my project here!