The Ansys Chemkin distribution includes a large set of sample problems, which are described in
detail in the
Chemkin Tutorials.
Generally, each sample consists of a pre-defined project file, a chemistry-set
definition file, and the associated chemistry input files (that is, gas-phase kinetics,
and in some cases surface kinetics). While these samples are ordinarily run through the
Chemkin Interface by accessing the project file, it is also possible to run a Chemkin
problem from the command line. In this case, however, the user must first generate the
Reactor Model input file. This can be generated from the User Interface, using the
button on the Run panel of the project
tree. Alternatively, users can construct new Reactor Model input files using the
keywords and syntax described in the Chemkin Input Manual.
The following section illustrates how a Reactor Model program executable can be run from
the command line. For the purposes of describing the commands, we assume that the root
of the Chemkin installation is
for PCs and
$HOME⁄242⁄reaction⁄chemkinpro.linuxx8664
for Linux. Also, we will refer to the user’s home directory as <home>, which
for PC users will be a folder called "chemkin" located in their user folder
within "Documents and Settings" on the C: drive, by default, unless the
CHEMKIN_HOME environment variable is set to a different
location. For Linux users, this is the $HOME environment variable
setting, unless the CHEMKIN_HOME variable points to a different
location.
Note: You can reach the root directory of the Ansys Chemkin install on a PC by typing the line
command: cd "%REACTION_DIR%\chemkinpro.win64". If your DOS
automatically opens to a drive other than your installation drive (for example,
c:\), you may need to enter the linked commands c: && cd
"%REACTION_DIR%\chemkinpro.win64"
If you changed the default location during installation, you will need to substitute the actual path where Ansys Chemkin is installed in place of these references.