Computer Assisted Reduction Method

CARM is a software package developed by Prof. J.-Y. Chen of UC, Berkeley, that automatically creates reduced chemical kinetic mechanisms starting with a detailed mechanism and a set of input problems representing the conditions under which the mechanism is to be used (Reaction-Engineering-Intemational 2014). CARM is an acronym of Computer Assisted Reduction Method . The output of CARM is a Fortran subroutine that gives the chemical source terms for each species in the reduced mechanism as a function of the temperature, pressure and species mass fractions. This subroutine can be used in a CFD code or in simpler applications such as those associated with the CHEMKIN package. Application of CARM was reported by Sung et al. (2001). 

Reaction-Engineering-Intemational CARM (Computer Assisted Reduction Method), http // energy.reaction-eng.com/modeling tools/carm.html (2014)... 

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