Glossary#
The following abbreviations are used in Cantera, both in documentation and in the names of variables and classes:
- CK
Chemkin
- CT
Cantera
- CTI
Cantera Input (Removed in Cantera 3.0)
- CTML
Cantera Markup Language (Removed in Cantera 3.0)
- DAE
Differential algebraic equation
- EOS / EoS
Equation of state
- HKFT
Helgeson-Kirkham-Flowers-Tanger
- HMW
Harvie, Møller, and Weare
- IAPWS
International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam
- IDT
Ignition delay time
- MFTP
Mixture Fugacity ThermoPhase
- NTC
Negative temperature coefficient
- ODE
Ordinary differential equation
- PDSS
Pressure-dependent standard state
- RT
Product of the universal gas constant (R) and the temperature
- SHE
Single half-electrode
- SP
Surface Problem
- SS
Standard state
- SSTP
SingleSpeciesTP (ThermoPhase)
- STIT
SpeciesThermoInterpType
- VCS
Villars Cruise Smith
- VPSS
Variable Pressure Standard State
- VPSSTP
Variable Pressure Standard State ThermoPhase
- wrt
with respect to