KiMoPack: A python Package for Kinetic Modeling of the Chemical Mechanism

Carolin Müller1,2, Torbjörn Pascher3, Axl Eriksson3

  • 1Institute for Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany.

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