Porous material Analysis Toolbox based on OpenFOAM (PATO)

About this technology

Overview

PATO (Porous material Analysis Toolbox based on OpenFOAM) is a modular research and development platform for multiphase porous reactive materials submitted to high-temperature environments or other unusual conditions. It can be run as a simple Fourier heat transfer code or include more advanced features such as internal decomposition (pyrolysis, vaporization), gas-gas and gas-solid chemical interactions (combustion, cracking, coking), gas species transport (convection, diffusion), and solid morphology evolutions (internal density changes, surface ablation). PATO is implemented as a C++ top-level module of the open-source (GNU GPL) Computational Fluid Dynamics software OpenFOAM. This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, the producer of the OpenFOAM software and owner of the OPENFOAM and OpenCFD trademarks. PATO also uses the open-source (GNU LGPL) thermodynamics, transport, and chemistry library Mutation++ produced by the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.