Khimera
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Khimera is a software product from Kintech Lab intended for calculation of the kinetic parameters of microscopic processes, thermodynamic and transport properties of substances and their mixtures in gases, plasmas and also of heterogeneous processes. The development of a kinetic mechanism is a key stage of present-day technologies for the creation of hi-tech devices and processes in a wide range of fields, such as microelectronics, chemical industry, and the design and optimization of combustion engines and power stations. Khimera with Chemical WorkBench, another software product from Kintech Lab, allows both the development of complex physical and chemical mechanisms and their validation. Essential feature of Khimera is its user-friendly interface for importing and utilizing the results of quantum-chemical calculations for estimating rate constants of elementary processes and thermodynamic and transport properties.
Fields of application
Khimera incorporates up to date achievements in the development of the wide range of models of elementary physicochemical processes; these models are of particular importance for hi-tech applications in:
- microelectronics
- materials science
- chemical industry
- automobile and aviation industry
- power engineering.
Basic capabilities
The computation modules of Khimera allow one to calculate the kinetic parameters of elementary processes and thermodynamic and transport properties from the data on the molecular structures and properties obtained from quantum-chemical calculations or from an experiment. The molecular properties and the parameters of molecular interactions can be calculated using quantum-chemical software (Gaussian, GAMESS, Jaguar, ADF) and directly imported into Khimera in an automatic mode. The results of calculations can be presented visually and exported for the further use in kinetic modeling and CFD packages.
External links
- Kintech Lab homepage
- Khimera's description
- KHIMERA (Cool tool for creating your own rxn rate constants) in "Video Review of Chemical Workbench-Tool for Modeling Reactive Flows and Developing Chemical Mechanisms"
References
1. J Comput Chem 23: 1375–1389, 2002
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20160611153527/http://www.softscout.com/software/Science-and-Laboratory/Laboratory-Information-Management-LIMS/Khimera.html