A Julia interface to Cantera for chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport. It links Cantera's native libcantera directly through the generated CLib API — it is not a reimplementation of Cantera and has no Python dependency.

Install

Requires Julia 1.9+ and a compiled libcantera. Point the package at the library (a directory or a full path) and the mechanism data:

export CANTERA_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/cantera/lib   # or use a conda env
export CANTERA_DATA=/path/to/cantera/data          # for gri30.yaml, etc.

The low-level CLib bindings are scaffolded by scons build and are kept up to date by the build process.

using Pkg
Pkg.activate("interfaces/julia")
Pkg.instantiate()

Quickstart

using Cantera
gas = Solution("gri30.yaml")
set_TPX!(gas, 1000.0, one_atm, "H2:2, O2:1, N2:4")
reactor = IdealGasReactor(gas)
net = ReactorNet(reactor)
advance!(net, 1e-3)
temperature(reactor)      # ignited temperature [K]

Documentation

Exported functions carry docstrings, accessible from the Julia REPL help mode (type ? followed by the function name). See the examples/ directory for runnable usage.

Status

Experimental. This interface targets Cantera's experimental CLib backend, and APIs may change.