# Cantera

Runs Cantera homogeneous chemical reactors and evaluates ignition delay with mechanism...

- Repository: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (55651 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-26
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill cantera -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill cantera -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill cantera -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill cantera -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Runs Cantera homogeneous chemical reactors and evaluates ignition delay with mechanism provenance, conservation checks, and numerical refinement. Use for combustion kinetics, closed adiabatic ideal-gas constant-volume or constant-pressure ignition, temperature histories, or mechanism-specific ignition-delay comparisons.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Cantera: homogeneous ignition calculations

## When to use

Use for a closed, adiabatic, homogeneous ideal-gas reactor with a known kinetic mechanism,
initial temperature, pressure, and mole composition. The bundled helper runs both constant
volume and constant pressure cases and reports a precisely defined temperature-based delay.
It is not a flame solver or a general reactor-network builder.

A calculation completing successfully establishes numerical execution, not mechanism
validity for the fuel, pressure, temperature, diluent, or measured ignition observable.
Read [references/interpretation.md](references/interpretation.md) when choosing a mechanism,
comparing experiments, or interpreting unresolved/two-stage ignition.

## Workflow

The rest: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/cantera/SKILL.md