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Modeling & Simulation Environments

Open-source platforms for modeling and simulating dynamic systems used in both industrial and academic research.

83 projects

32,670 contributors

$2.6B

Isaac Lab

Unified framework for robot learning built on NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Contributors

2,086

Organizations

190

Software value

$6.9M

MOOSE

MOOSE (Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment) is a finite element framework developed by Idaho National Laboratory for solving complex engineering and scientific problems. It provides a flexible, parallel computational framework for coupled systems of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Contributors

2,081

Organizations

79

Software value

$101M

LAMMPS

LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) is a classical molecular dynamics simulation code designed to efficiently compute atomic, polymeric, biological, metallic, granular, and coarse-grained systems using various interatomic potentials and boundary conditions on parallel computers.

Contributors

1,365

Organizations

169

Software value

$69M

OpenMM

OpenMM is a toolkit for molecular simulation using high performance GPU code.

Contributors

1,356

Organizations

204

Software value

$40M

Drake

Drake is a robotics toolbox and model-based design tool for analyzing and controlling robotic systems. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for simulation, optimization, and control of complex robotic systems, with support for rigid body dynamics, trajectory optimization, and control system design.

Contributors

1,027

Organizations

153

Software value

$32M

OpenFAST

Main repository for the NREL-supported OpenFAST whole-turbine and FAST.Farm wind farm simulation codes.

Contributors

1,011

Organizations

30

Software value

$18M

SOFA

Real-time multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation.

Contributors

899

Organizations

43

Software value

$18M

SU2

SU2 is an open-source suite of tools for performing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and solving partial differential equations. It is designed for aerodynamic shape optimization and is capable of simulating compressible, incompressible, and multiphysics flows.

Contributors

871

Organizations

55

Software value

$21M

Gazebo Sim

Open source robotics simulator. The latest version of Gazebo.

Contributors

868

Organizations

166

Software value

$9M

Logisim-evolution

Logisim-evolution is an educational tool for designing and simulating digital logic circuits. It provides a graphical interface for creating circuits using standard components like gates, flip-flops, and multiplexers, while supporting features such as VHDL/Verilog export, circuit analysis, and hardware testing capabilities.

Contributors

867

Organizations

128

Software value

$12M

OpenModelica

OpenModelica is an open-source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment intended for industrial and academic usage. It supports model-based design and simulation of complex physical systems in multiple domains including mechanical, electrical, electronic, hydraulic, thermal, control, and electric power systems.

Contributors

867

Organizations

75

Software value

$70M

AMReX

The mission and charitable purposes (collectively, the “Charitable Purposes”) of the Project is to provide a parallel, performance-portable block-structured adaptive mesh refinement framework for science and engineering applications.

Contributors

794

Organizations

76

Software value

$187M

Kratos Multiphysics

Kratos Multiphysics is an open-source framework for the implementation of numerical methods for solving engineering problems, particularly focused on finite element methods, computational fluid dynamics, and structural mechanics. It provides a unified environment for multi-physics simulations with parallel processing capabilities.

Contributors

736

Organizations

46

Software value

$124M

WRF

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed for both atmospheric research and operational forecasting applications. It features multiple dynamical cores and a software architecture allowing for parallel computation and system extensibility.

Contributors

667

Organizations

59

Software value

$49M

NEST Neural Simulation Tool

The NEST simulator

Contributors

665

Organizations

75

Software value

$11M

ModelingToolkit.jl

ModelingToolkit.jl is a symbolic modeling framework for scientific computing and automated model transformation in Julia. It enables users to define, manipulate, and solve complex mathematical models through symbolic computation, automatic differentiation, and code generation capabilities.

Contributors

661

Organizations

156

Software value

$2.1M

OpenMC

OpenMC Monte Carlo Code

Contributors

631

Organizations

59

Software value

$6.9M

CP2K

Quantum chemistry and solid state physics software package

Contributors

621

Organizations

84

Software value

$39M

WarpX

The mission and charitable purposes (collectively, the “Charitable Purposes”) of the Project is to provide a community, performance-portable and modular Particle in-Cell code with advanced algorithms.

Contributors

602

Organizations

57

Software value

$12M

TARDIS

TARDIS - Temperature And Radiative Diffusion In Supernovae

Contributors

555

Organizations

97

Software value

$4.7M

MATSim

Multi-Agent Transport Simulation

Contributors

553

Organizations

30

Software value

$43M

PowSyBl

PowSyBl (Power System Blocks) is an open source library dedicated to electrical grid modeling and simulation. PowSyBl is written in Java and licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. PowSyBl may be scripted for a quick solution, but it can also be used as a library to write complex software for power system simulation and analysis. Using PowSyBl, developers can create applications able to perform dynamic power flow simulations and security analyses on the network, handle a variety of formats including CGMES for European data exchanges, and many other tasks. PowSyBl has a completely modular design, enabling developers to extend or customize its features by providing their own plugins. Modularity is a key value of PowSyBl’s open source design.

Contributors

512

Organizations

55

Software value

$692M

OpenSees

OpenSees Source Code Repository

Contributors

504

Organizations

24

Software value

$56M

HOOMD-blue

Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo soft matter simulation on GPUs.

Contributors

499

Organizations

37

Software value

$8.6M

OpenSim

SimTK OpenSim C++ libraries and command-line applications, and Java/Python wrapping.

Contributors

460

Organizations

57

Software value

$12M

WEC-Sim

WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter Simulator) is an open-source software tool for simulating wave energy converters. It provides a modeling and analysis framework for studying the performance of wave energy conversion devices in the time-domain using MATLAB/Simulink.

Contributors

456

Organizations

9

Software value

$618K

ApsimX

ApsimX is the next generation of APSIM

Contributors

448

Organizations

21

Software value

$27M

OpenRAVE

Open Robotics Automation Virtual Environment: An environment for testing, developing, and deploying robotics motion planning algorithms.

Contributors

424

Organizations

68

Software value

$26M

INET Framework

INET Framework for the OMNeT++ discrete event simulator

Contributors

421

Organizations

47

Software value

$21M

PyPSA

PyPSA: Python for Power System Analysis

Contributors

413

Organizations

51

Software value

$3.7M

ASPECT

A parallel, extensible finite element code to simulate convection in both 2D and 3D models.

Contributors

401

Organizations

27

Software value

$51M

Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM)

The Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) is an integrated assessment model that explores the dynamics between human and Earth systems. It simulates the interactions between energy, agriculture, land use, water, climate, and economic systems to analyze long-term global change scenarios and policy impacts.

Contributors

400

Organizations

13

Software value

$199M

Cantera

Chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite

Contributors

396

Organizations

63

Software value

$8.2M

RoboticsAcademy

RoboticsAcademy is an open-source platform for learning robotics and computer vision through practical exercises. It provides a collection of hands-on exercises and tutorials using Python programming and simulated robots, allowing students to learn concepts like autonomous navigation, visual perception, and drone programming.

Contributors

393

Organizations

46

Software value

$4.4M

Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG)

Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) is an open-source software tool for automatically generating detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms for modeling chemical reactions. It uses rate-based algorithm and fundamental chemical properties to predict the important reactions and species in a chemical system, producing comprehensive reaction networks for thermal chemistry.

Contributors

388

Organizations

28

Software value

$9.6M

Qucs-S

Qucs-S is a circuit simulation program with Qt-based GUI

Contributors

376

Organizations

38

Software value

$20M

Elmer FEM

Official git repository of Elmer FEM software

Contributors

355

Organizations

54

Software value

$37M

Modelica Buildings Library

Modelica Buildings library

Contributors

339

Organizations

26

Software value

$29M

Basilisk

Astrodynamics simulation framework

Contributors

337

Organizations

21

Software value

$24M

IHMC Open Robotics Software

Robotics software featuring legged locomotion algorithms and a momentum-based controller core with optimization. Supporting software for world-class robots including humanoids, running birds, exoskeletons, mechs and more.

Contributors

333

Organizations

13

Software value

$41M

ABACUS

An electronic structure package based on either plane wave basis or numerical atomic orbitals.

Contributors

309

Organizations

14

Software value

$29M

Agents.jl

Agent-based modeling framework in Julia

Contributors

290

Organizations

56

Software value

$561K

ABINIT

The official github mirror of the Abinit repository. We welcome bug fixes and improvements. Note that most of the active developments are hosted on our https://gitlab.abinit.org/ server. Before embarking on making significant changes, please contact the Abinit group.

Contributors

280

Organizations

27

Software value

$89M

FireSim

FireSim is an open-source FPGA-accelerated hardware simulation platform that enables cycle-accurate microarchitecture simulation of RISC-V systems at scale. It allows users to simulate and debug complex hardware designs using cloud FPGAs, supporting both single-node and networked multi-node simulations.

Contributors

274

Organizations

46

Software value

$2.3M

OpenMDAO

OpenMDAO repository.

Contributors

265

Organizations

22

Software value

$9.7M

PIConGPU

Performance-Portable Particle-in-Cell Simulations for the Exascale Era :sparkles:

Contributors

261

Organizations

32

Software value

$15M

RAVEN (Risk Analysis Virtual Environment)

RAVEN is a flexible and multi-purpose probabilistic risk analysis, validation and uncertainty quantification, parameter optimization, model reduction and data knowledge-discovering framework.

Contributors

255

Organizations

8

Software value

$25M

Shadow

Shadow is a project focused on developing a cross-platform input recording and playback system for Linux and Windows, allowing for the simulation and automation of keyboard and mouse inputs

Contributors

240

Organizations

51

Software value

$3.9M

Trixi.jl

Trixi.jl: Adaptive high-order numerical simulations of conservation laws in Julia

Contributors

219

Organizations

45

Software value

$4.4M

GalSim

The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit. Documentation:

Contributors

209

Organizations

37

Software value

$12M

Catalyst.jl

Chemical reaction network and systems biology interface for scientific machine learning (SciML). High performance, GPU-parallelized, and O(1) solvers in open source software.

Contributors

204

Organizations

52

Software value

$1.6M

RocketPy

Next generation High-Power Rocketry 6-DOF Trajectory Simulation

Contributors

202

Organizations

19

Software value

$18M

REMIND

REMIND - REgional Model of INvestments and Development

Contributors

198

Organizations

7

Software value

$528K

Athena++

Athena++ radiation GRMHD code and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework

Contributors

194

Organizations

13

Software value

$3.9M

SeisSol

A scientific software for the numerical simulation of seismic wave phenomena and earthquake dynamics

Contributors

191

Organizations

16

Software value

$6M

SPHinXsys

SPHinXsys (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for industrial complex systems) is an open-source C++ library for modeling complex fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interactions using meshless methods. It provides tools for simulating multi-physics phenomena including fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and heat transfer.

Contributors

190

Organizations

9

Software value

$25M

Scenario Simulator v2

A scenario-based simulation framework for Autoware

Contributors

190

Organizations

21

Software value

$7.2M

Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF)

The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) is a suite of software tools for developing high-performance, multi-component Earth science modeling applications.

Contributors

184

Organizations

30

Software value

$44M

WISDEM

Wind Plant Integrated System Design and Engineering Model

Contributors

167

Organizations

11

Software value

$7.5M

ClimaAtmos.jl

ClimaAtmos.jl is a library for building atmospheric circulation models that is designed from the outset to leverage data assimilation and machine learning tools. We welcome contributions!

Contributors

149

Organizations

18

Software value

$2.1M

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