RPA-C is a combustion analysis tool used in the automotive industry to design airbag inflators and micro gas generators. It can also be used as a general-purpose code for combustion analysis of propellants and pyrotechnics mixtures.
The software is capable of:
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| Robust, proven and industry-accepted Gibbs free energy minimization approach to obtain the combustion composition and thermpdynamic properties | |
Calculation of properties of initial mixture:
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Calculation of combustion properties:
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| Obtaining the combustion products | |
Calculation of Heat of Explosion (HEX):
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Automatic adjustment of HEX solver in case of failure of exact calculation:
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| Scripting module to solve user's own problems, extending standard capabilities of the program | |
| Scilab plugin to solve user's own problems, extending standard capabilities of the program | |
| Expandable thermodynamic data library mainly based on NASA Glenn thermodynamic database includes data for numerous combustion product species, as well as data for such propellant components | |
| Built-in species database editor: the users can incorporate into the thermodynamic data library his/her own chemical species, or species obtained from third parties | |
| Tool for importing components from PROPEP or NASA CEA2 species databases | |
| Multi-platform graphical user interface for Microsoft® Windows™ and Linux | |
| Results output in SI or U.S. customary units | |
Supported units for input data:
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| Output of results to Plain Text or HTML format | |
| Output of results to PDF or ODF format | |
| Printing results of analysis |