ReactionMechanismGenerator / ARC

ARC - Automatic Rate Calculator
https://reactionmechanismgenerator.github.io/ARC/index.html
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Include BACs to obtain accurate k_rev #460

Open kspieks opened 3 years ago

kspieks commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When using ARC to run Arkane to obtain a rate constant, ARC currently has bac_type=None for all kinetics calculations so k_fwd is meaningful but the species thermo, Keq, and k_rev are not. This works well if the user wants to create a library of k_fwd before an RMG job. However, it may be useful to add an optional argument to indicate the direction and to include BACs; these would allow the other quantities present in rxns/ts/arkane/output.py to be meaningful.

Describe the solution you'd like The default behavior should be preserved. Some optional features to consider are

alongd commented 3 years ago

As we discussed offline, it could be beneficial to compute the rate in a certain direction by default, as you mentioned, regardless of BACs.