XBeach — The Complete Guide: Free Modelling of Storm Impact, Dune Erosion and Overwash
XBeach models what one storm does to a beach: waves, flooding, dune erosion and barrier breaching. An open-source Deltares model for storm damage and defences.
Guides and Articles
Delft3D — The Complete Guide: Free Open-Source Modelling of Coasts, Currents and Sediment
Delft3D from Dutch institute Deltares models currents, waves, sediment transport, morphology and water quality on coasts, in ports and estuaries. How to start.
PAVEXpress — The Complete Guide: Online Pavement Thickness Design by AASHTO
PAVEXpress designs flexible and rigid pavement sections by the AASHTO 1993 method from traffic, subgrade and material inputs, with a saved summary. Free online.
Pavement Designer — The Complete Guide: Online Concrete Pavement Thickness Design
Pavement Designer from the American Concrete Pavement Association designs concrete pavement thickness for streets, parking lots, industrial yards and overlays.
Room EQ Wizard — The Complete Guide: Acoustic Room Measurement, Reverberation Time and Background Noise
REW turns a laptop and a measurement microphone into an acoustic measurement system: frequency response, RT60 by band, speech intelligibility and NC/NR noise.
PHREEQC — The Complete Guide: Geochemical Calculations for Water, Minerals and Reactive Transport
PHREEQC from the USGS computes what happens when water meets rock, soil or other water: equilibrium, dissolution, precipitation, ion exchange and transport.
ChemEnggCalc — The Complete Guide: Online Calculators for Chemical Engineering
ChemEnggCalc gathers online calculators for fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, reaction engineering and unit conversion, each with its formula shown.
ChemSep LITE — The Complete Guide: Distillation, Absorption and Extraction Columns in the Free Edition
ChemSep LITE designs distillation, absorption and extraction columns with the equilibrium-stage model, in COCO. Limited free edition: 40 components, 300 stages.
COCO Simulator — The Complete Guide: A Free CAPE-OPEN Process Simulator
COCO is a free CAPE-OPEN chemical process simulator: connect unit operations and get solved mass and energy balances. ChemSep LITE included for columns.
CoolProp — The Complete Guide: Thermophysical Properties of Fluids and Refrigerants From Any Language
CoolProp returns pressure, density, enthalpy, entropy and viscosity for over a hundred fluids and refrigerants, from Python, Excel, MATLAB and C++. Free.
Cantera — The Complete Guide: Chemical Kinetics, Equilibrium and Combustion in Python
Cantera is an open-source library for chemical kinetics, thermodynamics and transport: equilibrium, reactors, flame speeds and mechanisms, in Python or MATLAB.
Speckle — The Complete Guide: Moving Models and Data Between Design Tools Without File Exports
Speckle moves geometry and data between Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Blender, QGIS, Excel and more as versioned objects — Git for design. The core is open source.