OpenSMOKE++ swMATH ID: 22162 Software Authors: A. Cuoci, A. Frassoldati, T. Faravelli, E. Ranzi Description: OpenSMOKE++: An object-oriented framework for the numerical modeling of reactive systems with detailed kinetic mechanisms. OpenSMOKE++ is a general framework for numerical simulations of reacting systems with detailed kinetic mechanisms, including thousands of chemical species and reactions. The framework is entirely written in object-oriented C++ and can be easily extended and customized by the user for specific systems, without having to modify the core functionality of the program. The OpenSMOKE++ framework can handle simulations of ideal chemical reactors (plug-flow, batch, and jet stirred reactors), shock-tubes, rapid compression machines, and can be easily incorporated into multi-dimensional CFD codes for the modeling of reacting flows. OpenSMOKE++ provides useful numerical tools such as the sensitivity and rate of production analyses, needed to recognize the main chemical paths and to interpret the numerical results from a kinetic point of view. Since simulations involving large kinetic mechanisms are very time consuming, OpenSMOKE++ adopts advanced numerical techniques able to reduce the computational cost, without sacrificing the accuracy and the robustness of the calculations. In the present paper we give a detailed description of the framework features, the numerical models available, and the implementation of the code. The possibility of coupling the OpenSMOKE++ functionality with existing numerical codes is discussed. The computational performances of the framework are presented, and the capabilities of OpenSMOKE++ in terms of integration of stiff ODE systems are discussed and analyzed with special emphasis. Some examples demonstrating the ability of the OpenSMOKE++ framework to successfully manage large kinetic mechanisms are eventually presented. Homepage: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEVY_v1_0.html Related Software: Graphviz; Cantera; Python; ReNView; GitHub; CHEMKIN; OpenFOAM Cited in: 4 Publications all top 5 Cited by 20 Authors 3 Frassoldati, Alessio 2 Cuoci, Alberto 2 Ranzi, Eliseo 2 Seshadri, Kalyanasundaram 2 Stagni, Alessandro 1 Avedisian, Charles T. 1 Badiali, Lucia 1 Bisetti, Fabrizio 1 Brunson, Jordan D. 1 Dalili, Alireza 1 Faravelli, Tiziano 1 Gehmlich, Ryan 1 Guo, Songtao 1 Hicks, Michael C. 1 Mairinger, Gerald 1 Niemann, Ulrich 1 Pizzetti, Fabio 1 Solmaz, Evrim 1 Turello, Massimiliano 1 Williams, Forman Arthur Cited in 1 Serial 4 Combustion Theory and Modelling Cited in 2 Fields 4 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 4 Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer (80-XX) Citations by Year