  The ignition delay of a fuel/air mixture is an important quantity in
designing combustion devices, and these data are also used to validate chemical
kinetic models for combustion. One of the typical experimental devices used to
measure the ignition delay is called a Rapid Compression Machine (RCM). This
paper presents UConnRCMPy, an open-source Python package to process
experimental data from the RCM at the University of Connecticut. Given an
experimental measurement, UConnRCMPy computes the thermodynamic conditions in
the reaction chamber of the RCM during an experiment along with the ignition
delay. UConnRCMPy implements an extensible framework, so that alternative
experimental data formats can be incorporated easily. In this way, UConnRCMPy
improves the consistency of RCM data processing and enables the community to
reproduce data analysis procedures.
