VlachosGroup / openmkm

Opensource software to model heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Based on Cantera
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rctr_state file density values of the gas phase #24

Open wittregr opened 4 years ago

wittregr commented 4 years ago

In the rctr_state file, are the reported density values the density of the gas phase? If not, please correct the documentation.

MaxRCohen commented 4 years ago

Hi @mbkumar, I see you reduced the clause of "density of the gas phase" to be just "density" in the documentation. Can you specify what it is the density of? Is it the gas phase, or the density of some other quantity?

skasiraj commented 2 years ago

Yes that is correct. The quantity being printed here is the density of reactor contents. Cantera documentation says "Returns the current density (kg/m^3) of the reactor's contents." I presume this is the gas-phase density from the ideal-gas law as we are using the Ideal-Gas assumption for the gas-phase species.

MaxRCohen commented 2 years ago

Great, this specification should be included in the documentation for clarity since just "density" can be ambiguous.