BASEMENT — The Complete Guide: River Hydrodynamics and Bed Changes From ETH Zurich
BASEMENT from ETH Zurich models river flow and bed changes in 1D and 2D, with sediment transport. Free even for commercial use, but not open source.
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LISFLOOD-OS — The Complete Guide: The EU’s Distributed Hydrological Model
LISFLOOD-OS is a distributed hydrological model from the EU Joint Research Centre: a gridded water balance plus river and reservoir routing for large basins.
Landlab — The Complete Guide: Erosion, Runoff and Landslide Models in Python
Landlab is a Python toolkit for Earth-surface models: rainfall, overland flow, erosion and sediment transport, flow routing and landslides on regular grids.
FloPy — The Complete Guide: Building MODFLOW Models in a Python Script
FloPy is a Python package to build, run and post-process MODFLOW groundwater models. You define grid, layers, boundaries and wells in code and run scenarios.
ANUGA — The Complete Guide: A 2D Model for Floods, Tsunamis and Storm Surge
ANUGA is a Python library that solves the shallow water equations on an unstructured triangular mesh, for river floods, tsunami inundation and storm surge.
WNTR — The Complete Guide: Water Network Resilience and Failure Scenarios in Python
WNTR is a Python library from US EPA and Sandia for water supply networks: it reads EPANET files, runs hydraulics and water quality, and tests breaks and leaks.
PEST++ — The Complete Guide: Free Model Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis
PEST++ from USGS calibrates numerical models against measurements and runs sensitivity, uncertainty and optimisation analyses. Common with MODFLOW models.
GMT — The Complete Guide: Publication-Quality Maps and Sections From a Script
GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) is a command-line toolkit for processing geodata and producing publication-quality maps, sections and plots, with Python access.
DualSPHysics — The Complete Guide: GPU SPH Simulation of Wave Impact and Sloshing
DualSPHysics simulates flow with SPH particles instead of a mesh, on a CPU or NVIDIA GPU. Good for wave impact on breakwaters, overtopping and tank sloshing.
openLCA — The Complete Guide: Open-Source Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprints
openLCA is open-source software for life cycle assessment and the carbon footprint of products, materials and processes. The software is free; some data costs.
Reaktoro — The Complete Guide: Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetics of Multiphase Systems
Reaktoro is an open C++ and Python tool for chemical equilibrium and kinetics of water, gas and minerals — for geochemistry, water treatment and CO2 storage.
Pyomo — The Complete Guide: A Free Optimisation Modelling Language in Python
Pyomo is an algebraic modelling language for optimisation in Python: linear, nonlinear and mixed-integer problems for processes, energy and scheduling.