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Appendix B: CHEMKIN Chemical Kinetics Software
Pages 83-85

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... The group's full software package was entitled "CHEMKIN -- A Chemical Kinetics Software Package." The CHEMKIN software package provided a very convenient interface for specifying chemical kinetic reaction mechanisms, thermochemical data, and transport parameters, together with the computer software necessary to evaluate the various properties needed in the governing equations. Each of the individual system models was as good as, or significantly better than, any comparable models available at the time, and the authors made the entire package available to the general combustion community at no cost.
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... Most importantly, an individual researcher could go to another research organization anywhere in the world and quickly become completely functional because the new organization was using exactly the same modeling tools. Model improvements and new capabilities within the CHEMKIN family of models simultaneously provided the entire research community with the same new tools, with no cost or development expenses to anyone outside the core development group.
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... REFERENCE Reaction Design.
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