OpenMKM

OpenMKM is a multiphysics and multiscale software aimed at Chemical Engineers interested in modeling chemical kinetics for heterogeneous catalytic reactions. OpenMKM is opensource software and is developed at Delaware Energy Institute, University of Delaware.

Documentation

To find more about OpenMKM, visit OpenMKM Documentation.

GitHub Markdown (.md) documentation

1. Instructions how to install OpenMKM can be found at Installation.
2. Instructions to run OpenMKM can be found at How-to-run.
3. More information about the input files required to run OpenMKM can be found at Input-Files.
4. More information about the output files generated by OpenMKM can be found at Output-Files.
5. You can find micro-kinetic modeling theory at in the Theory section.
6. Examples are given here: \<OpenMKM_ROOT>/examples/ folder

Developers

• Bharat Medasani (mbkumar@gmail.com)
• Sashank Kasiraju (skasiraj@udel.edu)

Dependencies

OpenMKM is dependent on Cantera.

License

MIT License

Citation

If you use OpenMKM please consider citing the following publication.

• Bharat Medasani, Sashank Kasiraju, and Dionisios G. Vlachos, OpenMKM: An Open-Source C++ Multiscale Modeling Simulator for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions, JCIM, 2023 63 (11), 3377-3391, DOI.

Funding

Development of OpenMKM is funded by RAPID Manufacturing Institute.