Citing¶

If you use ceaToFoam in your work, please cite the version you used. Every release is archived on Zenodo with its own DOI:

Citing	DOI
ceaToFoam 2.0.0	10.5281/zenodo.23637115
All versions (resolves to the latest)	10.5281/zenodo.23637114

@software{ceatofoam_2_0_0,
  author    = {Cerda, Luke and Madadi-Kandjani, Ehsan},
  title     = {ceaToFoam: NASA CEA chamber thermochemistry to OpenFOAM rocket-nozzle cases},
  version   = {2.0.0},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23637115},
  url       = {https://github.com/MCF2-Lab/ceaToFoam},
  license   = {GPL-3.0-only}
}

GitHub's "Cite this repository" button reads CITATION.cff.

The method, its verification and its validation are described in

L. Cerda and E. Madadi-Kandjani, Consistent thermochemistry for frozen-flow simulations of liquid-rocket thrust chambers: sizing, verification and validation.

The full reference will be added here once the paper is published.

Please also cite the programs that ceaToFoam builds on: NASA CEA (Gordon and McBride, 1994; McBride and Gordon, 1996), Cantera, and OpenFOAM with rhoCentralFoam (Greenshields et al., 2010). See Method.

License¶

ceaToFoam is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0-only), without any warranty.

Authors¶

Luke Cerda and Ehsan Madadi-Kandjani, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, California State University Long Beach.

Questions, bug reports and suggestions are welcome as GitHub issues.