Crystallization Analysis Toolbox

Population Balance Equation Solver

CAT is an open-source software designed to solve population balance equations as they typically arise in particulate processes and to analyze the results.
brought to you by:
Dave Ochsenbein, Automatic Control Laboratory, [e-mail] (active)
Dr. Martin Iggland (not active)

Numerical Methods currently supported
- Moving Pivot
- Central Difference
- High Resolution

Features supported by all solvers:
- Nucleation (homogeneous/heterogeneous)
- Growth (size dependent/independent)
- Dissolution (only size independent verified)
- Antisolvent and Temperature profiles in form of anonymous functions or piecewise-linear functions
- Arbitrary grid sizing

Features that are currently planned for the future:
- Ostwald / Viedma Ripening
- Lattice-Boltzman method
- 1D agglomeration and breakage

Further down the line:
- Solution of nD PBE problems and integration with morphology domain plotter