catool - combustion analysis tool

The latest version of catool, 0.9.6 has been released.

The release resolves two issues:

• MATLAB file output was broken in 0.9.5
• MEP units are correctly bar rather than Nm

Downloads are available from Sourceforge:

• Source code: catool-0.9.6-source.zip MD5: 40ebcb13a3a033748b3858e21c04ec9c
• Windows 32-bit binary: catool-0.9.6-win32.zip MD5: 47f60600de8517abc5692abbba34ac75

Brown, B. R., "Combustion Data Acquisition and Analysis," M.Eng. Automotive Engineering Thesis, Loughborough University, 2001. [1.21MB]

Converting AVL I-File data to MATLAB
catool can be used to convert raw combustion data in AVL I-File format for later analysis in The MathWorks' MATLAB.

The following configuration file will load an AVL I-File (avl_ifile.001) and output a MATLAB file (avl_ifile.mat).

catool can perform the relative to absolute pressure correction using the polytropic indices and crank angle range specified in the AVL I-File. To do this uncomment the three lines (channel-offset, analyse and run-analysis).

input-file-type AVL_IFILE

input-file avl_ifile.001
load-channels all

load-file

The website is slowly making its way back online.

If you are looking to download catool, the open source combustion analysis software you can do so here.

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