Cantera/Surface Reactions

More information on how Cantera deals with surface coverage computation here: http://charlesmartinreid.com/wiki/Cantera/Surface_Coverage

This page is more about the computation of the reaction rate source terms for surface reactions.

Gas vs Surface Source Terms

In a gas-surface model, you will be tracking the

If we have a gas phase and a surface phase, we can either have net adsorption (the consumption of gas phase species that adsorb onto the surface), or net desorption (the generation of gas phase species that desorb from the surface and into the gas).

For the case of adsorption of a species from the gas phase to the surface phase,

For the case of desorption of a species from the surface phase into the gas phase,

Computing ODE RHS terms:

gas phase source terms