(c) Peter Woitke & Christiane Helling 2017-2023

Fast thermo-chemical equilibrium code with or without equilibrium condensation down to 100K.

Please cite our A&A paper "Equilibrium chemistry down to 100 K. Impact of silicates and phyllosilicates on carbon/oxygen ratio"; P. Woitke, Ch. Helling, G. H. Hunter, J. D. Millard, G. E. Turner, M. Worters, J. Blecic, J. W. Stock; 2018; Astronomy & Astrophysics 614, 1 - see GGchemPaper.pdf in this folder.

We would be interested to hear from you about what kind of applications you would like to use ggchem for, please let us know via email Peter Woitke (peter.woitke@oeaw.ac.at) as well as if you have any questions or problems.

If your research results in any publications, please cite the above article and consider to give us co-author-ship.

git clone https://github.com/pw31/GGchem
cd GGchem/src16
cp makefile.prodimo makefile
make

The makefile.prodimo is for ifort compiler, adjust your own makefile if you want to compile e.g. with gfortran.

cd ..
./ggchem input/default.in

It will create the output file "Static_Conc.dat", which contains all computed molecular, atom and ion particle densities, the electron density, solid and liquid particle densities, and supersaturation ratios:

• Tg: gas temperature [K],
• nHtot: total hydrogen nuclei particle density [cm-3],
• pges: total gas pressure [dyn/cm2]
• el ... W: atomic particle densities log10(natom)[cm-3]
• {mol}: molecular particle densities log10(nmol)[cm-3]
• S{cond}: supersaturation ratios log10(S) [-] of condensates
• n{cond}: concentration of condensed units per H nuclues log10(ncond/nHtot) [-]
• eps{el}: remainig element abundances in the gas phase [-]
• dust/gas: dust to gas mass ratio log10(rho_dust/rho_gas) [-]
• dustVol/H: dust volume per H nucleus log10(dust_volume) [cm3]

S{cond} and n{cond} are used in the header to distinguish between supersaturation ratio and concentration of condensed units, whereas {mol} (without the leading "n") is a molecular particle density.

python2 tools/Plot_T.py evince ggchem.pdf &

To create your own model, make a copy of default.in and customize it to tell GGchem what it should do. You can also look at some of the other *.in files to lean from examples. Select or deselect elements by modifying the first line, default choice is

H He C N O Na Mg Si Fe Al Ca Ti S Cl K Li F P V Cr Mn Ni Zr W el

where "el" means to include atomic and molecular ions, and the electron density as well, assuming charge equilibrium. Molecules are included if they are made of the selected elements, otherwise they will be ignored.

Choose element abundances with parameter abund_pick. The default choice is abund_pick=3 for solar abundances from Asplund et al.(2009). There are additional pre-installed options to use data from "Abundances.dat", including "EarthCrust" (abund_pick=1), "Ocean" (abund_pick=2) and "Meteorites" (abund_pick=4) as listed in "Abundances.dat". If you want any other element abundances, use (abund_pick=0) followed by a name of a custom file with abundances, see, e.g. input/model_Crich.in.

Choose sources for equilibrium constants kp(T)-data, default choice is dispol_new.dat. There are 6 different fit-formulas implemented, see details in src16/smchem16.f (function gk). Data files having kp-data are in folder data:

dispol_StockKitzmann.dat : 2008, Diplomarbeit TU Berlin
dispol_StockKitzmann_withoutTsuji.dat : same, without Tsuji refits
dispol_BarklemCollet.dat : 2016, A&A 588, A96
dispol_SharpHuebner.dat : 1990, ApJSS 72, 417
dispol_Tsuji.dat : 1973, A&A 23, 411
dispol_GGchem.dat : old NIST-Janaf fits
dispol_fast.dat : 9-molecules from Heng&Tsai 2016

You can use combinations by setting dispol_file, dispol_file2, dispol_file3, dispol_file4 in your MyModel.in file, in which case the latter have preference over the former, and will overwrite previous data.

Choose whether you want to constrain the pressure (model_pconst=.true.) or the mass density (model_pconst=.false.).

You can run single point model (model_dim=0), linear track (model_dim=1) or 2D coverage (model_dim=2). Set parameters Tmin, Tmax and then pmax, pmin or nHmax, nHmin for model_pconst=.true. or .false., respectively. In the default model_dim=1 mode, ggchem will make a linear track in (logp, logT) parameter space with Npoints points.

If you want to switch on equilibrium condensation, set model_eqcond=.true. In that mode, the code will be much slower, and also possibly unstable. Always start from large T and then lower T SLOWLY with successive calls. The code will create and expand "database.dat" automatically from the results of every successful call, such that once you have filled in the (p,T)-plane with many points, the results will be faster and more reliable. The Gibbs-free energy data files are in folder data:

DustChem_GGchem.dat : old GGchem NIST-Janaf fits
DustChem_SUPCRTBL.dat : dG-fits from the SUPCRTBL database
(Zimmer et al. 2016, Computers and Geosciences, 90, 97)
DustChem.dat : currently used collection from both

The pure gas phase chemistry needs about 0.4 ms per call for T > 1000 K (real8 version) and about 3 ms per call for T < 1000 K (real16 version). These time measurements are for 16 elements + charge. Time requirement roughly scale as N^3, if N is the number of elements. The equilibrium condensation code requires many calls of the gas-phase equilibrium chemistry routine, and takes about 0.02-0.09 sec per call, depending on how much useful information is found in database.dat.