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## Third-Party Software and Data

### Validation Testing

This project uses **Cantera** (https://cantera.org) for validation testing purposes only.
Cantera is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. The Cantera library is not included
in or required by the CombAero library itself - it is used solely to validate the
accuracy of CombAero's thermodynamic and transport property calculations.

### Thermodynamic Data

NASA polynomial coefficients used in this library are derived from publicly available
thermodynamic databases including:
- NASA CEA (Chemical Equilibrium with Applications)
- GRI-Mech combustion mechanism data

These databases are in the public domain or available under permissive licenses.
