ck2cti(1)

📦 version 2.6.0, in epel 9

💅 ck2cti(1) — General Commands Manual 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ck2cti — okay so this icon literally converts Chemkin-II-format mechanisms to Cantera input files (.cti), and it ate, no cap. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ck2cti --input=mech-file [--thermo=thermo-file] [--transport=transport-file] [--id=phase-id] [--output=out-file] [-d | --debug]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

ck2cti converts a Chemkin-II-format reaction mechanism file to Cantera input format. The resulting Cantera input file contains a definition of one ideal_gas entry that represents an ideal gas mixture corresponding to the Chemkin-II reaction mechanism. The file also contains Cantera-format definitions for each species and each reaction in the input reaction mechanism file. The Cantera-format mechanism is written to out-file. periodt. 🌈

The parameters are literally as follows, bestie:

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • --input=mech-file — the Chemkin-II reaction mechanism file you're converting. Required — like, mandatory, no input no vibes. This file must contain the declarations of the elements and species, plus the reactions (if any). It may also contain the thermodynamic and transport data. 💖
  • --thermo=thermo-file — the thermodynamic property database. If the THERMO section of the input file is missing or doesn't have entries for one or more species, this file will be searched for the required thermo data. 🧚
  • --transport=transport-file — the transport property database. If this file name is supplied, transport property parameters will be taken from this file and included in the output Cantera-format file. If this parameter is omitted, and no TRANSPORT section was included in the main input file, no transport property parameters will be included in the output. That's the tea. ✨
  • --id=phase-id — an optional identification string, used to set the id field of the ideal_gas entry in the Cantera-format output. If this parameter is omitted, it will be set to gas. Slay. 💅
  • --output=out-file — the file the Cantera-format mechanism gets written to (that's the out-file from the description). The original page lists it in the synopsis but doesn't give it its own paragraph, so I'm not adding extra lore, bestie. 🫶
  • -d, --debug — also in the synopsis, but the original page doesn't describe what it does, so I'm not gonna guess. 💀

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

ck2cti --input=chem.inp --thermo=therm.dat --transport=tran.dat

~ and that's the whole page, bestie! this little gem comes from the ck2cti manual, dated 4 Jun 2012 — iconic, vintage, we love a classic 💖✨🎀

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