Cantera installation instructions

You can use these scripts in the same way that the old ck2cti script was used. All users are encouraged to switch their input files to the new format. Instructions for installing Cantera 2.

Available options include Conda, native installers for Windows and macOS, Ubuntu packages, and compiling from source. The Cantera development team is pleased to announce the general availability of the first beta for the next release of Cantera, v2. There have been almost commits to Cantera since the last version, 2. This release was made possible by the following contributors: Dave Holland, 12Chao , BangShiuh , CyberDrudge , ThanasisMattas , agarwalrounak , arghdos , band-a-prend , bryanwweber , decaluwe , g3bk47 , ischoegl , jsantner , kyleniemeyer , lavdwall , lionkey , manikmayur , mgashwinkumar , paulblum , rwest , sameshl , sin-ha , speth , spinnau , tsikes , wbessler , korffdm.

We also added new features to the 1-D reactor code among other areas , including adding an ionized gas transport class and the IonFlow and BurnerIonFlame classes, providing better accessing to callbacks during 1-D solutions, and automatically detecting certain common failure conditions of the 1-D solver.

This release of Cantera was made possible by contributions from 14 developers: speth , bryanwweber , BangShiuh , decaluwe , wandadars , jsantner , arghdos , rwest , g3bk47 , awehrfritz , band-a-prend , vdevgan , KyleLinevitchJr , and MarcDuQuesne. For installation and compilation instructions for Cantera 2. In addition to Conda packages, Windows installers, and Ubuntu packages, this release also features the addition of a pre-compiled Matlab toolbox for macOS users, replacing Homebrew as the prefered method of installing Cantera for Matlab on macOS.

The website has moved to a separate repository , allowing the website content to be updated without modifications to the main Cantera source code. We also tried to make it easy for all of our users to find what they're looking for quickly, from installation instructions and tutorials for beginners, to advanced examples and API documentation for experienced Cantera programmers. NumFOCUS is a c 3 nonprofit dedicated to supporting the open source scientific computing community. Support for Python 2.

Given the recent release cadence of Cantera, the next major version of Cantera will probably be released very close to that date, so we have made the decision to drop Python 2.

One notable change to the build requirements for Cantera 2. Cantera git repository. Once you have access to cantera-avbp git repository, copy the git link and launch the following command in your terminal from the directory you chose for installation:. If you only need to run Cantera without a need to change the source code, you can simply use the following command on NFS machines:. Before starting Cantera installation, check that Xcode is installed and up-to-date on your mac.

Many dependencies will be installed. At the end of the quite long compilation, a message will give you the source command for your newly installed Cantera. Donate to Cantera. Option 1: Create a new environment for Cantera If you have just installed Anaconda or Miniconda, the following instructions will create a conda environment where you can use Cantera. From the command line, run: conda create - n spam - c cantera cantera ipython matplotlib.

Python 3. You can install multiple Cantera Python modules simultaneously. Cantera supports both and bit Python installations. You need choose the matching Cantera installer for your Python version and machine architecture. The rest of these instructions will refer to your chosen version of Python as X. If you are using Matlab, you must use the same architecture for Cantera and Matlab.

Matlab defaults to bit if you are running a bit operating system. Install Python Go to python. Run the installer. The default installation options should be fine. Python is required in order to work with cti input files even if you are not using the Python interface to Cantera.

Cantera can also be used with alternative Python distributions such as the Enthought Canopy distribution. These distributions will generally be based on the bit version of Python 2.

If this package is not installed, you will encounter the following error when importing the cantera module: ImportError : DLL load failed : The specified module could not be found. Share Copy sharable link for this gist.

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