FluxViewer

The common feature of all FluxViewer reads the reaction flux information from a text file that was dumped by CHEMKIN postprocessor code KINALC (version 1.9 or higher). The program draws the species as boxes and the element fluxes as interconnecting arrows. Initially, a crude ("dumb computer logic") arrangement appears, which can be improved by moving the boxes using the drag’n’drop method. Important connections can be emphasized by editing out the less significant ones using a display threshold. The optimized, nice and chemically meaningful final figure can be saved as a picture  and printed. Development and change of the connections with reaction progress can be inspected as an animation.

CH4-air explosion, p= 1 atm, T0= 1200 K, lean (phi=0.7) mixture. Net fluxes of C-atoms between the species at T=1810 K.

 

Application of Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required. Program J2SE 1.4.2 or later version can be downloaded e.g. from http://java.sun.com/j2se/index.jsp

Download the fluxviewer.zip package (865 kbyte) that contains the following files:

fluxviewer.jar                        The Java program
UsersManual_1.0.rtf             Users Manual
*.txt, *.fvd                                The sample input files listed below

Sample text input files 

Output of KINALC containing element fluxes.

 

H2-air explosion, p= 1 atm, T0= 1200 K, lean (phi=0.5), stoichiometric (phi=1.0) and rich (phi=2.0) mixtures

H2-air_explosion_phi05.txt
H2-air_explosion_phi10.txt
H2-air_explosion_phi20.txt

H2-air premixed flame, p= 1 atm, Tc= 300 K, lean (phi=0.5), stoichiometric (phi=1.0) and rich (phi=2.0) mixtures

H2-air_premixedflame_phi05.txt
H2-air_premixedflame_phi10.txt
H2-air_premixedflame_phi20.txt

CH4-air explosion, p= 1 atm, T0= 1200 K, lean (phi=0.7), stoichiometric (phi=1.0) and rich (phi=1.2) mixtures

CH4-air_explosion_phi07.txt
CH4-air_explosion_phi10.txt
CH4-air_explosion_phi12.txt

CH4-air premixed flame, p= 1 atm, Tc= 300 K, lean (phi=0.7), stoichiometric (phi=1.0) and rich (phi=1.2) mixtures

CH4-air_premixedflame_phi07.txt
CH4-air_premixedflame_phi10.txt
CH4-air_premixedflame_phi12.txt

Sample binary input files 

These files were saved by FluxViewer and contain not only the element fluxes, but also an arrangement of the boxes. 

CH4-air_explosion_phi07.fvd
CH4-air_explosion_phi12.fvd

 

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