--- title: Ansys Chemkin-Pro Reviews meta_title: 'Ansys Chemkin-Pro Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 11 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Ansys Chemkin-Pro works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 11 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # Ansys Chemkin-Pro Reviews **Vendor:** Ansys, Inc. **Category:** [Other CAD Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-cad) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About Ansys Chemkin-Pro Ansys Chemkin-Pro is the gold standard for modeling and simulating complex gas phase and surface chemistry reactions that are used for the conceptual development of combustion systems in cars, trucks, jet engines, boilers, chemical and materials processing equipment and refining applications. Chemkin-Pro's wide array of accurate, fast and robust kinetic models make it the most trusted kinetic simulation tool for asking "what if" questions in the conceptual design phase ## Ansys Chemkin-Pro Reviews ### 1. Solving Chemical reactions faster and efficiently **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fuentes O. | Secondary Teacher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** I like the fact that I was able to display data obtained from the reactions and their progress. I also like how to set the reactors. **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** I think for the particular case of study, I did not get much information from the manual. I struggled to represent a reaction in plasma and it took me a while to simulate that reaction. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Chemkin-Pro:** Be in contact with technical support. When using pfr remember to use a serie of cstr to simulate this pfr. **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** I completed an engineering project in simulating a reaction of hydrogen Cyanide in a plasma reactor. Being able to simulate this reaction will eventually reduce the amount of testing and could help to understand key paths for the reaction to be maximised. ### 2. CFD combustion scientist on Chemkin-Pro **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** A. Mani I. | Principal Modeling & Simulation Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Chemkin-Pro for me is the standard tool for me to work with combustion mechanisms. The best thing about it is it’s universalism, meaning that very often you can find combustion mechanisms in Chemkin format, making the process much faster. **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** The format is not forgiving, so if the input files would be more easily accepted, that works better **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Chemkin-Pro:** Chemkin-pro is the number one tool for me dealing with combustion mechanisms **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Chemkin-pro for analyzing combustion mechanisms, comparison of detailed mechanisms with skeletal and reduced mechanisms ### 3. powerful and effective software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed N. | Research And Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** The perfect tool for the simulation and the modeling of complex combustion processes. It provides many facilities like reaction path analysis and multi-zone engine simulation. **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Time-consuming while running a complex system. Sometimes it takes more than 30 hours to complete the run. **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running jet stirred reactor simulation with hydrocarbon fuel to validate the data with the experimental work. It helped me develop the chemical kinetic models for linear and branched alkanes. ### 4. General pyrolysis process **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PRASHUN PRADEEP M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** It provides pre defined modules to select from and really helps setup the problem with high flexibility in input parameters, making possible a full range studies possible. **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** It has solver issues for problems are not of predefined type and leads to huge computational time. **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have developed a mechanism for pyrolysis of methane for CVD process using other tool and was validating the results found in experiment through reactor available in chkin-pro. I found success in validating gas phase results whereas surface is still in progress. ### 5. User friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai Kiran N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Ansys Chemkin is user friendly and can be used without any knowledge on coding **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** I like this software and i did not find any disadvantages **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used this software to solve plasma reactions ### 6. Chemkin: full product, not very user friendly **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marco T. | Project Manager | Digital Trainee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** It can really do a lot, with many customizations **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** As I was new to the software, it took me some time to use it properly **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly reactive flow simulations. Detailed results are printed ### 7. User Friendly experience with ANSYS- CHEMKIN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Useful to run chemical reactions to study emissions formation and calculations **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Never got a chance to work on electric and hybrid applications **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used chemkin during Masters course to complete one project given by professor. My focus was mainly on modeling emissions compounds such has HC, CO, NOx, soot over temperature-equivalence ratio. Determined critical compression ratio at higher ignition temperature in HCCI reactor. ### 8. Pretty good when it comes to work on parameters. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Connection with Excel. It's cool to see all the results in format you are familiar with. **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** The UI. Hate the interface. A little confusing even while looking up for tutorials. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Chemkin-Pro:** Fix the UI. Make it interactive. **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** Worked on IC Engine parameters. Understanding what parameters affect what is good to know. ### 9. Very helpful tool and detail oriented **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Simulation strategy and analysis method. **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Limited fields of application. need update **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Chemkin-Pro:** yes **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** Right now no work. Previously did a emission simulation project ### 10. Helped a lot for my research **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** User friendly and easy to use Straightforward **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** The Interface is outdated and could look better **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** Laminar flame speed ### 11. The best platform for flame 🔥 analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Interface and accuracy, also, visualization is perfect **What do you dislike about Ansys Chemkin-Pro?** Require detailed manual input and complicated **What problems is Ansys Chemkin-Pro solving and how is that benefiting you?** Flame analysis ## Ansys Chemkin-Pro Discussions - [Surface Chemistry Reactions](https://www.g2.com/discussions/surface-chemistry-reactions) - 1 upvote - [View Ansys Chemkin-Pro pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-chemkin-pro/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-18+17%3A47%3A06+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4eee8f62-635b-4ba9-a81c-f85bbb75f841&secure%5Btoken%5D=9a837abee1b5d6be3311a499456a9aac0fb90d2ec87e8b051a2f7409eaec3bf8&format=llm_user) ## Top Ansys Chemkin-Pro Alternatives - [Simplify3D](https://www.g2.com/products/simplify3d/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (41 reviews) - [PTC Mathcad Prime](https://www.g2.com/products/ptc-mathcad-prime/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (32 reviews) - [MeshLab](https://www.g2.com/products/meshlab/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (21 reviews)