About

The Porous material Analysis Toolbox (PATO) is a modular analysis platform for multiphase porous reactive materials. It can be run as a simple Fourier heat transfer code or include more advanced features as internal decomposition (pyrolysis, vaporization), gas-gas and gas-solid chemical interactions (combustion, cracking, coking), gas species transport (convection, diffusion), and solid morphology evolutions (internal density changes, surface ablation). PATO is implemented as a C++ top level module of the open source (GNU GPL) computational fluid dynamics software program OpenFOAM. PATO also uses the open source (GNU LGPL) thermodynamics, transport, and chemistry library Mutation++ produced by the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

Tutorials are provided for different types of geometries (1D, 2D, 2D-axi, 3D), boundary conditions (imposed temperature and pressure, convective boundary layer, coupled to external flow) and materials (metals, composites, wood).

PATO is distributed Open Source by NASA.

https://software.nasa.gov/software/ARC-16680-1A

The goal of this website is to guide users and serve as a community hub.