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Getting Chemkin reaction mechanisms to work in OpenFOAM

Although Chemkin files (that is, the reaction file usually called “chem.inp” and the thermodynamics file usually called “therm.dat”) are mostly compatible with OpenFOAM thanks to the OF utility chemkinReader, certain Chemkin functionalities and conventions are unrecognized and cause OF to crash. Some of these functionalities, such as the keyword PLOG for pressure-dependent coefficients, are simply…