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1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) 2. REPORT DATE 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED
February 1994 Reference Publication
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5. FUNDING NUMBERS

LSENS, A General Chemical Kinetics and Sensitivity Analysis Code for

Homogeneous Gas-Phase Reactions
II. Code Description and Usage WU–505–62–52
6. AUTHOR(S)

Krishnan Radhakrishnan and David A. Bittker

7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION

REPORT NUMBER
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lewis Research Center E–5140–2
Cleveland, Ohio 44135 – 3191

9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSORING/MONITORING

AGENCY REPORT NUMBER

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Washington, D.C. 20546– 0001 NASA RP–1329

11. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

Krishnan Radhakrishnan, NYMA, Inc., Lewis Research Center Group, 2001 Aerospace Parkway, Brook Park, Ohio 44142;
David A. Bittker, NASA Lewis Research Center. Responsible person, Edward J. Mularz, organization code 2650,
(216) 433–5850.
12a. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT 12b. DISTRIBUTION CODE

Unclassified - Unlimited
Subject Categories 25, 61, and 64

13. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words)

LSENS, the Lewis General Chemical Kinetics and Sensitivity Analysis Code, has been developed for solving complex,
homogeneous, gas-phase chemical kinetics problems and contains sensitivity analysis for a variety of problems, including
nonisothermal situations. This report is part II of a series of three reference publications that describe LSENS, provide a
detailed guide to its usage, and present many example problems. Part II describes the code, how to modify it, and its
usage, including preparation of the problem data file required to execute LSENS. Code usage is illustrated by several
example problems, which further explain preparation of the problem data file and show how to obtain desired accuracy in
the computed results.
LSENS is a flexible, convenient, accurate, and efficient solver for chemical reaction problems such as static system;
steady, one-dimensional, inviscid flow; reaction behind incident shock wave, including boundary layer correction; and
perfectly stirred (highly backmixed) reactor. In addition, the chemical equilibrium state can be computed for the following
assigned states: temperature and pressure, enthalpy and pressure, temperature and volume, and internal energy and
volume. For static problems the code computes the sensitivity coefficients of the dependent variables and their temporal
derivatives with respect to the initial values of the dependent variables and/or the three rate coefficient parameters of the
chemical reactions.
Part I (NASA RP–1328) derives the governing equations and describes the numerical solution procedures for the types
of problems that can be solved by LSENS. Part III (NASA RP–1330) explains the kinetics and kinetics-plus-sensitivity-
analysis problems supplied with LSENS and presents sample results.
14. SUBJECT TERMS 15. NUMBER OF PAGES
Gas-phase chemical kinetics; Numerical solution of chemical kinetics ODE’s; 156
Sensitivity analysis; Chemical equilibrium; Incident shock; Perfectly stirred reactor 16. PRICE CODE
A08
17. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 18. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 19. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 20. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT
OF REPORT OF THIS PAGE OF ABSTRACT
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