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The Kinetic PreProcessor: KPP
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   <h3>An Environment for the<br/>Simuation of Chemical Kinetic Systems</h3>
   <p><strong>Adrian Sandu<sup>1</sup>, Rolf Sander<sup>2</sup>,
   Michael S. Long<sup>3</sup>, Haipeng Lin<sup>4</sup>,<br />
   Robert M. Yantosca<sup>4</sup>, Lucas Estrada<sup>4</sup>, Lu
   Shen<sup>5</sup>, and Daniel J. Jacob<sup>4</sup></strong></p>
   <p><em>
     <sup>1</sup> Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA<br/>
     <sup>2</sup> Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany<br/>
     <sup>3</sup> Renaissance Fiber, LLC, North Carolina, USA<br/>
     <sup>4</sup> Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and
     Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA<br />
     <sup>5</sup> School of Physics, Peking University, Bejing, China</em>
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This site provides instructions for :program:`KPP`, the Kinetic PreProcessor.

Contributions (e.g., suggestions, edits, revisions) would be greatly
appreciated. See :ref:`editing-this-user-guide` and our
contributing guidelines.  If you find something hard to
understand---let us know!

.. toctree::
   :caption: Getting Started
   :maxdepth: 2

   getting_started/00_revision_history.rst
   getting_started/01_installation.rst
   getting_started/02_running_kpp_sample_mech.rst

.. toctree::
   :caption: Using KPP
   :maxdepth: 2

   using_kpp/04_input_for_kpp.rst
   using_kpp/05_output_from_kpp.rst

.. toctree::
   :caption: Technical information
   :maxdepth: 2

   tech_info/06_info_for_kpp_developers.rst
   tech_info/07_numerical_methods.rst
   tech_info/08_bnf_description_of_kpp_lang.rst

.. toctree::
   :caption: KPP Reference
   :maxdepth: 2

   citations/09_acknowledgments.rst
   citations/10_kpp_references.rst

.. toctree::
   :caption: Help and Support
   :maxdepth: 2

   reference/known-bugs.rst
   reference/support.rst
   reference/contributing.rst
   reference/editing_these_docs.rst