Author : Krishnan Radhakrishnan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)
Book Synopsis LSENS, a General Chemical Kinetics and Sensitivity Analysis Code for Gas-phase Reactions: User's Guide by : Krishnan Radhakrishnan
Download or read book LSENS, a General Chemical Kinetics and Sensitivity Analysis Code for Gas-phase Reactions: User's Guide written by Krishnan Radhakrishnan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general chemical kinetics and sensitivity analysis code for complex, homogeneous, gas-phase reactions is described. The main features of the code, LSENS, are its flexibility, efficiency and convenience in treating many different chemical reaction models. The models include static system, steady, one-dimensional, inviscid flow, shock initiated reaction, and a perfectly stirred reactor. In addition, equilibrium computations can be performed for several assigned states. An implicit numerical integration method, which works efficiently for the extremes of very fast and very slow reaction, is used for solving the 'stiff' differential equation systems that arise in chemical kinetics. For static reactions, sensitivity coefficients of all dependent variables and their temporal derivatives with respect to the initial values of dependent variables and/or the rate coefficient parameters can be computed. This paper presents descriptions of the code and its usage, and includes several illustrative example problems.