[mturcios777]

I was looking at the thread discussing alternate chemistry models and Cantera Implementation:

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...1-cantera.html

There was a message dated October last year about making alternateChemistryModel work with OF >= 1.6. I was wondering two things:

1) Has there been any further work with having alternateChemistryModel interface with later versions of OpenFOAM?

2) I currently have a solver where I call an external utility to calculate reaction rate arrays for use in YEqn.H where the transport equation of select species are solved. I was thinking of doing something more general, but it seems with all the difficulty it may be easier to simply create a second member function like chemistry::calculate2 that takes the names of the select species and calls the external program. Its a pain to have multiple copies of reaction rates and species, so this would simplify and make things consistent.

3) On a more general note, I'm looking for more documentation on the way chemistryModel is templatized. The biggest question I have is why there are both an ODEChemistryModel and an ode solver. In particular, if I wanted to implement something similar to what is described in 2, should I do this in ODEChemistryModel or ode?

Thanks in advance Foam Friends!