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CRUZ, Elkin; MONTOYA, Andrés  y  AGREDA, Jesús. CHEMical KINetics SimuLATOR (Chemkinlator): A friendly user interface for chemical kinetics simulations. Rev.Colomb.Quim. [online]. 2020, vol.49, n.1, pp.40-47. ISSN 0120-2804.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rev.colomb.quim.v1n49.83298.

CHEMicalKINetics SimuLATOR (Chemkinlator) is a Graphical User Interface for the simulation of reaction mechanisms. The interface allows the user to see and change the parameters of a reaction network within a single window. Chemkinlator comes with built-in support for three types of kinetic simulations: Time Series, which computes the concentration of all species in an interval of time for the defined model; Bifurcation diagrams, which are the result of running several Time Series simulations over gradually different kinetic rate constants; and Flow/Temperature time series, which takes into account the effect of flow in the Continuous-flow well-Stirred Tank Reactor, and the effect of temperature on the rates constants according to the Arrhenius equation. In our research group, Chemkinlator has been the primary tool used to test the predictions made by algorithms that analyze homochirality phenomena. Chemkinlator is written in C++14 and Qt, and it uses the Fortran subroutine DLSODE to solve the differential equations associated with the reaction networks. Chemkinlator is open source software under the Apache 2.0 license and can be downloaded freely from https://gitlab.com/homochirality/chemkinlator.

Palabras clave : Chemical software; reaction mechanisms; bifurcation; continuos-flow well-stirred tank reactor; Arrhenius equation.

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