SpecMiCP
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Overview
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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
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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, ...
- **data** : contains two example of database in JSON format. 'specmicp_database.js' is just an example, mainly for the tests. 'cemdata_specmicp.js' is a partial translation of the [CEMDATA07][2] database.

The **micpsolver** and **odeint** modules can be use independantly. 

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

About
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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

[2] http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/*/62204/---/l=1