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  3. I am having some trouble post-processing Chemkin solutions in Excel. Excel won’t open, from inside Chemkin, and when I post-process the *.ckcsv file from outside Chemkin, there is an enormous amount of data. How can I gain control of the output from Chemkin, both in terms of getting Excel to open and controlling the amount of data that is generated?

I am having some trouble post-processing Chemkin solutions in Excel. Excel won’t open, from inside Chemkin, and when I post-process the *.ckcsv file from outside Chemkin, there is an enormous amount of data. How can I gain control of the output from Chemkin, both in terms of getting Excel to open and controlling the amount of data that is generated?

Tagged: 19, Analyze Results, chemkin, Chemkin UI, fluid-dynamics
    • August 25, 2023 at 12:16 pm
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      Usually, problems in getting Excel to work with Chemkin come from a failure to configure Excel from within Chemkin. There are also several ways to streamline the post-processing data. Both of these are outlined in the attached resolution document

      Attachments:
      1. 2054113.pdf

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