FastChem Documentation

Welcome to FastChem 4!

On this page you find the documentation for FastChem, the ultrafast equilibrium chemistry. If you find any new errors or inaccuracies, please send them to daniel.kitzmann@unibe.ch .

• Overview
• Licence
• Installation
  • Obtaining the code
  • Prerequisites
  • Configuration and compilation with CMake
  • Installation of pyFastChem with Python
• Standard input and output files
  • Element abundance file
  • Species data files
  • Basic element data file (optional)
  • FastChem parameter file (optional)
  • Output files
  • Benchmark input and output files
• C++ stand-alone executable
  • Running the FastChem executable
  • Config file
• Running pyFastChem
  • Provided Python examples
  • Detailed steps for running pyFastChem
  • Output functions of pyFastChem
• Detailed C++ object class description
  • Some comments on coding conventions
  • FastChem object class
  • FastChem constants
  • FastChem constructor
  • Input and output structures
  • Public methods of the FastChem object class
• Detailed pyFastChem module description
  • pyFastChem constants
  • pyFastChem constructor
  • pyFastChem input and output structures
  • pyFastChem functions
• Internal parameters
  • Standard parameters
  • Advanced parameters