CRModel: A general collisional radiative modeling code

This paper describes CRModel, a general collisional radiative modeling code written in C++. It uses a flexible plain text input file to describe all r elevant aspects of the considered plasma region, including collisional cros s sections and radiative decay probabilities. This allows the model to be u sed for a wide range of atomic or ionic plasma species. The types of result s that the model generates, also specified in the input file, include atomi c state densities and ionization and recombination coefficients. CRModel wa s developed on Linux/UNIX workstations, but can also be used on the PC (i.e . Windows) platform. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.