Cantera (software)

{{Short description|Open-source chemical kinetics software}}

{{See also|Cantera (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Cantera

| developer = Raymond Speth{{cite web |url=https://lae.mit.edu/team/raymond-speth/|title=Raymond Speth|publisher=MIT LAE|accessdate=23 December 2018}}

| released = {{Start date and age|2004|12|13}}{{cite web |url=https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/releases/tag/v1.5.5|title=1.5.5|publisher=Ray Speth|accessdate=23 December 2018}}

| latest release version = 2.4.0

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2018|08|24}}

| programming language = C++, Python

| website = {{URL|https://cantera.org/}}

}}

Cantera is an open-source chemical kinetics software used for solving chemically reacting laminar flows. It has been used as a third-party library in external reacting flow simulation codes, such as FUEGO and CADS, using Fortran, C++, etc. to evaluate properties and chemical source terms that appear in the application's governing equations. Cantera was originally written and developed by Prof. Dave Goodwin of California Institute of Technology. It is written in C++ and can be used from C++, Python, Matlab and Fortran.