scikit-fem — The Complete Guide: Easy, Free Finite Elements in Python
scikit-fem is a lightweight Python finite-element library that installs in seconds, ideal for learning, quick checks and adding FEM to an engineering script.
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FElupe — The Complete Guide: Free Analysis of Rubber Parts and Large Deformations in Python
FElupe is a free Python library for nonlinear solid mechanics with finite elements: seals, dampers and rubber mounts under large deformation. How to start.
Agros Suite — The Complete Guide: Free 2D Multiphysics Simulation With a Graphical Interface
Agros Suite solves 2D finite-element problems through a graphical interface: electrostatics, magnetics, heat, structures and flow, including coupled physics.
SPACESOFT — The Complete Guide: Free 3D Steel Structure Analysis, Design and Seismic Checks
SPACESOFT analyses and designs 3D steel structures in the browser: six degrees of freedom, EN 1993-1-1 design, SI 413 seismic checks and a full report, free.
CBECC — The Complete Guide: California Title 24 Energy Code Compliance
CBECC is open-source software from the California Energy Commission for Title 24 compliance of nonresidential and multifamily buildings, using EnergyPlus.
PyFR — The Complete Guide: Open-Source High-Order CFD on GPUs
PyFR is an open-source high-order CFD solver using Flux Reconstruction that runs on GPUs and ordinary CPUs, aimed at LES and DNS of unsteady turbulent flows.
Basilisk — The Complete Guide: Two-Phase Flow, Droplets and Waves on Adaptive Meshes
Basilisk is a free GPL flow solver on adaptive Cartesian meshes, successor to Gerris, strong on droplets, bubbles and breaking waves. You write cases in C.
Clawpack — The Complete Guide: Tsunamis, Floods and Conservation Laws with GeoClaw
Clawpack is open-source finite-volume software for hyperbolic conservation laws, with GeoClaw for tsunamis, floods and dam breaks and PyClaw for Python users.
Mayavi — The Complete Guide: 3D Scientific Visualisation in Python
Mayavi is an open-source Python tool for 3D views of scalar, vector and tensor fields, built on VTK, used as a GUI application or from scripts with mlab. Free.
Channelflow — The Complete Guide: Spectral Simulation of Channel Turbulence
Channelflow is open-source C++ software for spectral simulation of incompressible channel flow and for finding equilibria and periodic orbits. A research tool.
PRMS — The Complete Guide: Watershed Modelling from Precipitation to Streamflow
USGS PRMS follows water through a basin: precipitation, snowmelt, evapotranspiration, runoff, infiltration and streamflow. A free public-domain watershed model.
VS2DI — The Complete Guide: 2D Unsaturated Flow and Solute Transport
USGS VS2DI simulates 2D water flow in saturated and unsaturated soil with solute or heat transport, in a simple Windows interface. Free, public domain.