Video Review of Chemical Workbench-Tool for Modeling Reactive Flows and Developing Chemical Mechanisms

Posted on March 26th, 2010 by Masha Petrova

Hi MVP Readers,

This is a review/tutorial/intro video of KINTECH software tools:  Chemical Workbench - for modeling reactive flow processes, KinteckDB- database for storing species and reaction and chemical mechanism info, and KHIMERA - tool for calculating reaction rate parameters.

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The video is in 4 parts.  It gives a good overview of what you might expect from KINTECH tools.  You can request a free trial version of the software by visiting: http://www.kintechlab.com, creating a login name and clicking on the “downloads” link.

DISCLAIMER: I am using the free trial version of this software. This is my personal, unbiased opinion. I am not paid, or in anyway compensated by to do a review of this software.

(I realize you can’t fast forward on these videos, sorry about that! I am using screentoaster.com, guess the fast forward capability is not available)

Part1: Chemical Workbench Overview

(Sorry about the lame background screen during the first 5 mins -  my webcam is lagging behind the screen video just in this first video! Bear with me - the other 3 videos uploaded just fine.)

Part2: Running an example

Part3: KintechDB (database tool) Overview (LOOOOOOOOOOOVE this tool!)

Part4: KHIMERA (Cool tool for creating your own rxn rate constants)

If you can’t view the video, try this link:

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVEpQQkRIR19WSFxZWlxRXlZd

Please help make this blog better! In comments, let me know

1)What other software reviews you would like to see here?

2) How can I make these reviews better for you?

Cheers!
Masha

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Interview with USC Professor and former Astronaut, Dr. Paul Ronney

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Masha Petrova

Today’s interview is with Professor Paul Ronney from University of Souther California.

Here are the questions that Paul, very kindly, agreed to discuss with me during this interview. (If you are having trouble listening to the interview, simply  install a Quicktime plug-in for your web browser).

-Describe some of the modeling work you have done in the past….
- What are the biggest differences, between conducting lab and computer experiments?
- Do you have to change your way of thinking depending on whether you’re setting up a simulation or a lab experiment? How?
-What are the biggest challenges in dealing with computer simulations that  do not exist when running lab experiments?
- Where do you see combustion modeling being 10,20, or 50 years from now?
-If you had to give one piece of advice to engineers who are getting ready to add computer modeling to their research, what would it be?

Brief Bio:

Prof. Paul D. Ronney is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.

He received his Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the MIT.  He was the Payload Specialist Astronaut (Alternate) for Space Shuttle mission MSL-1 (STS-83, April 4 - 8, 1997) and the reflight of this mission (STS-94, July 1 - 16, 1997).

Professor Ronney has extensive research experience in micro-scale combustion, premixed flame ignition by pulsed corona discharges,propagating fronts in motile bacteria, turbulent combustion, edge flames, flame propagation in confined geometries (Hele-Shaw cells), internal combustion engines, premixed-gas combustion at microgravity, flame spread over solid fuel beds, and radiatively-driven flows and heat transfer.

Prof. Ronney has published over 70 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals, made over 150 technical presentations, holds four U.S. patents with several others pending, and has received over $10 million in funding for his research projects. He is an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of Combustion Theory and Modelling, Combustion and Flame, Microgravity Science and Technology, Micromachines and Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.

This is a 25 minute interview.  Simply click on the Play button to listen.

Interview mp3

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