SpecMiCP

Overview

SpecMiCP is a speciation solver to find the equilibrium state of a chemical system. The system is based on a mixed complementarity formulation of the equilibrium condition for minerals.

For a mineral with number of moles "nl", the equilibrium condition is :

nl >= 0, 1-(IAP/K) >= 0, nl*(1-(IAP/K) = 0

where IAP is the ion activity product and K the equilibrium constant. This condition is reformulated using [C-function][1] and the system is solved using a semismooth method.

Modules

SpecMiCP is not (yet) a program but a set of libraries that can be used to solve specific problems.

The following modules are already available :

• database : manage the database, parse it from a file, swap the basis, select the correct species, ...
• micpsolver : Solve a Mixed Complementarity problem
• odeint : integration methods for the solving ordinary differential equations (for problem involving kinetics for example)
• specmicp : *core* of the library, set the system, solve it, solve a reaction path model, ...

Examples of use are provided in the tests. In particular, files in tests/specmicps/ show some reaction paths modeling and a kinetic example.

About

SpecMiCP is developped by F. Georget (fabieng aT princeton DoT edu). It is part of my PhD work. The purpose of the PhD is to develop a reactive transport model to model the coupling between hydration, drying and carbonation in cement paste.

[1] Finite-Dimensional Variational Inequalities and Complementarity Problems, Facchinei and Pang, Springer, 2003