CRANE

CRANE (Chemical ReAction NEtwork) is an open source software dedicated to modeling the time evolution of coupled rate equations. CRANE is part of the MOOSE framework: http://mooseframework.org

Instructions for installing CRANE:

Step 1. Install the MOOSE development environment (click on 'Getting Started' at the following link and follow the instructions),

http://mooseframework.org/

After installing MOOSE, make sure you have the following folder on your local machine containing MOOSE

~/projects

Step 2. After installing the MOOSE environment, execute the following commands:

cd ~/projects

git clone https://github.com/lcpp-org/crane

cd crane

git submodule update --init moose

mamba activate moose

make -jn

where n is the number of logical processors on your computer.

Step 3. Run tests to make sure CRANE is installed properly.

./run_tests -jn

If all the tests pass, CRANE has been successfully installed.

Updating CRANE:

To update CRANE, it is recommended to use fetch and rebase:

cd ~/projects/crane

git fetch origin

git rebase origin/master

For full documention about CRANE, please refer to ReadTheDocs:

https://crane-plasma-chemistry.readthedocs.io/en/latest/