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[sjohn]

When I import my kinetics input file and thermodynamic database file, I get the following error:

Error...character array element name too long...C0.30H4.55S2.50O5.75

Is there a way to solve this using an alias or some other means?

[sjohn]

Can any Species or Reacting Flow model expert provide any guidance on this?

[Vijay Narayan]

Hi,

Shall i assume that you are trying this in Fluent platform ? Have you tried to read the mechanism related files in CHEMKIN platform and is it accepting them w/o error? There are restrictions on the length of species name (refer to Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of CHEMKIN Input manual for reference). 

[sjohn]

Yes, my question is with regards to Fluent. Yes, the character name is too long as per the error message and the manual. Hence, my question to find out if there is a work around.

[Vijay Narayan]

Hi, 
have you tried replacing the name with a shorter one and evaluating it in CHEMKIN or Fluent platform ? I'm not sure whether there are other altenrate workarounds, but i can check internally and get back

Regards

[Vijay Narayan]

Hi,

There arent alternate options and we need to ensure that the space restrictions for species name needs to be strictly followed. As mentioned earlier, try replcaing the name by a shorter one.

Thanks

[sjohn]

Hi, I have tried replacing the name with a shorter name but the problem is that the formula still exceeds the space alloted for it in Line 1.

Short name        C0.3H4.5S2.50O5.75    L    300.00   2600.00  800.00      1

H2O                     H   2O   1          G    300.00   4000.00 1000.00      1