Schedule
This tentative schedule is subject to change.
The workshop will run 9 AM to 6 PM on Sunday 16 March, with a meet-up the evening before from 7pm at Back Bay Social for those arriving earlier on Saturday. The Sunday morning session will be an introduction and tutorial (bring a laptop to follow along and try things out). Around lunch we invite lightning talks from attendees (show off what you have tried to do with Cantera, or what you would like to do with Cantera), and will have a session on how to contribute to Cantera. The afternoon will be a presentation of what’s new in Cantera, including demonstrations of the latest features and capabilities.
| Start Time (EST) | End Time | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 12:00 | Introduction & Tutorials (including a break) |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Lightning Talks (contributions welcome) |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch break (provided) |
| 13:30 | 14:30 | Lighting Talks (contributions welcome) |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Contributing to Cantera |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 | 18:00 | What’s new in Cantera (including a break) |
Topics
Tutorial Session (morning)
We expect to cover:
- Installing Cantera
- Thermo / equilibrium (adiabatic flame temperature)
- Ignition Delay - ideal shock tube
- Well Stirred Reactor
- Laminar Flame Speed
- Input files (conversion / debugging)
Lightning Talks (before and after lunch)
Contact @rwest to contribute a talk.
| Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Richard West | Northeastern University | Converging flame speed calculations |
| Lakshmi Ganesh Shankar | State University of New York at Buffalo | Reactor Network Modeling of a Wood Stove – Effects of Thermal Inertia & Soot Production |
| Michael Stuhr | Argonne National Laboratory | Kinetic Simulations for the Reaction NCN + H behind Shock Waves |
| Timo Pekkanen | MIT | Effect of mixture rules in ammonia combustion. |
| Subharaj Hossain | University of Illinois, Chicago | Kinetic Modeling of Complex Fuel Oxidation |
| Su Sun | Northeastern University | Cantera in MATLAB, Reimagined: A Faster, More Intuitive Experience |
| Aneesh Kale | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Reaction Sensitivity Analysis in Cantera |
| Thomas Westenhofer | University of California, Irvine | Plug Flow Reactor Simulation of Carbon Ablation in Nuclear Thermal Rockets |
| Sevy Harris | Northeastern University | Estimation ignition delay uncertainty using sensitivity analysis |
| Alp Tuztas | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | Scramjet Hydrocarbon Fuel Modelling with Cantera |
| Satyendra Rana | University of Connecticut | Modelling of metal combustion and heat transfer using Cantera/Python |
| Prasad Pokkunuri | Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University | Modelling and optimizing solar thermochemical processes using Cantera |
| Jen Zen Ho | Stanford University | Custom QSS kinetics and getting them to work (5 years ago) |
| Manuel Suarez | Texas A&M University | Optical Diagnostics and Imaging |
Contributing to Cantera (afternoon)
A panel session. We hope to discuss:
- Users’ Group
- GitHub
- Issue tracker
- Pull Requests
- Documentation
- Enhancements repo
- Setting up your IDE
What’s New Session (afternoon)
We expect to cover most of:
- Documentation enhancements: new examples gallery, and expanded documentation for developers
- Extensible reaction rates.
- Preconditioners for faster reactor integration
- Real gas models in 1D simulations
- Catalytic combustion with the new PFR
- New mixing rules for collision effifiencies
- Plasma phases and reactions
- Blowers-Masel for thermodynamic sensitivity
- MATLAB interface
- Reactor network visualizations