COSILAB is a software tool for solving complexchemical kinetics problems. It is used worldwide in research and industry, in particular inautomotive,combustion, andchemical processing applications.
Problems to be solved by COSILAB may involve thousands of reactions amongst hundreds of species for practically any mixture composition, pressure and temperature. Its computational capabilities allow for a complexchemical reaction to be studied in detail, including intermediate compounds, trace compounds andpollutants.
Whilst complex chemistry is accounted for,chemical reactor orcombustion geometries that can be handled by COSILAB are relatively simple. For the purpose of ``real-life" simulations this limitation can be overcome, however, by using a library of pre-compiled subroutines and functions, that one can link to their own code written inFortran, theC programming language orC++. In this way, it is possible to develop fully two-dimensional or three-dimensional CFD orcomputational fluid dynamics codes that are able to capture fairly realistic geometries.
The development of codes like COSILAB is motivated by a worldwide attempt to keep the environment clean and to save—or at least make best use of—the continuously diminishingfossil fuel resources.
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