Adiabat_1ph download and information page

Read the current documentation file for more information (v2.0; rev 1; 27 Mar '08). Requires Acrobat Reader 5 or newer.

Adiabat_1ph can be run as is but to access the full range of features requires Perl.

The development, release, and maintenance of Adiabat_1ph is supported by the National Science Foundation through grant EAR-0239513.

Funded by the same NSF grant: a Java applet for binary phase equilibria.

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Adiabat_1ph is a public menu-driven front-end to the MELTS (Ghiorso & Sack, 1995), pMELTS (Ghiorso et al., 2002), and pHMELTS (Asimow et al., 2004) models of thermodynamic equilibrium in silicate systems. It is described in a software brief in G-cubed (Smith & Asimow, 2005).

The software is available in compiled executable form, for Windows, MacOS X (PowerPC and Intel), and Linux (32-bit and 64-bit). The full package also includes Perl scripts, documentation (see left) and examples files to help in running adiabat_1ph. Supplementary updates of the adiabat_1ph and / cubicquad2 executable(s), without the ancillary files, are provided for bug-fixes and new features. Choose your operating system for files and installation instructions:

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Archive file of Adiabat_1ph package
Executable of Adiabat_1ph update
Executable of Cubicquad2 update

This is version 2.0, posted on March 10th, 2008. If your computer is networked when you run adiabat_1ph it will check the version against this server and tell you if you need to update. Previous releases are also archived on this site (requires Stuffit for MacOS X).

Please see this *README* for a list of changes since previous versions, as well as how to cite adiabat_1ph calculations, a package file list and any errata / bug fix details (March 28th, 2008). Also check out the Adiabat_1ph Users Forum for more information.

To install the adiabat_1ph package: please choose OS for details.
To update the adiabat_1ph executable (after extracting the other files): please choose OS for details.
To update the cubicquad2 executable follow the previous instructions replacing each 'adiabat_1ph' with 'cubicquad2'.
Consult the documentation to get the software running correctly, including the 'Before you start', 'Installation' and 'Bugs and Fixes' sections.

This page is maintained by Paula Antoshechkina (e-mail username: psmith) and Paul Asimow (e-mail username: asimow). Please address any questions, comments or bug reports to them (e-mail domain: gps.caltech.edu).