Partial Differential Equation (PDE) SolversGeneral Finite Element Analysis (FEA) | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| Elmer (profile) | FEA Software for Multiphysics Problems | GPL | Debian | |
| Code-Aster (profile) | Structural and thermomechanical software (en français) | Electricite de France | GPL | Debian |
| CalculiX | Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program | Several | GPL | Debian |
| FreeFEM | Finite element software family, including FFW (FreeFEM on the Web) | GPL | Debian | |
| Impact | Explicit dynamic finite element program | Several | GPL | |
| deal.II (profile) | C++ library for solving PDEs using adaptive FEA | Debian | ||
| XmdS | Extensible multi-dimensional simulator | GPL | ||
| GetDP | Generalized environment for treatment of discrete problems | GPL | ||
| FElt | Solid mechanics FEA | GPL | ||
| OOFEM | General finite element program | GPL | ||
| TOCHNOG | Free finite element program | Dennis Roddeman | GPL | Debian |
| FEniCS | Automated ODE/PDE solver | FEniCS group | GPL+LGPL | Debian |
| SLFFEA | Structural finite element analysis solver | GPL | ||
| FELyX | General finite element method toolbox | GPL | ||
| ALBERTA | General finite element method library | GPL3 | Debian | |
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| OpenFOAM | General CFD toolbox with pre-processor | OpenFOAM | GPL | Debian |
| OpenFlower | CFD solver focused on turbulent unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations | GPL | ||
| Gerris | Variable density incompressible Navier-Stokes, Stokes or Euler solver with adaptive mesh refinement | New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research | GPL | Debian |
| Code_Saturne | General purpose CFD software | Electricite de France | GPL | Debian |
| libMesh (profile) | C++ FEA library with adaptive mesh refinement based on PETSc | |||
| DUNS | Diagonalized Upwind Navier Stokes Code | Pennsylvania State University | GPL | |
| SLFCFD | San Le's Free Computational Fluid Dynamics | GPL | ||
| PETSc-FEM | General multi-physics FEM package based on PETSc | GPL | ||
| TYPHON | Development platform for many computational methods for gas dynamics | GPL | ||
| OpenFVM | GPL | |||
| ADFC | GPL | |||
| Dolfyn | Apache 2 | |||
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Electromagnetism and Optics | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| Tessa | Three-dimensional simulation software for optical systems, based on the FDTD method | Debian | ||
| Meep | Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software for electromagnetic systems | Joannopoulos Ab Initio Physics group | GPL | Debian |
| MIT Photonic Bands | Computes the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures | Steven G. Johnson and the Joannopoulos Ab Initio Physics group | GPL | Debian |
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Software for Phase Field simulations | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| FiPy | Python-based finite volume partial differential equation solver library | NIST CTCMS | Public domain | |
| RheoPlast | Parallel finite difference PDE solver written in C and based on PETSc | Adam Powell et al. | GPL | |
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Boundary Element Method (BEM) | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| Julian | Boundary element code for Laplace equation and linear elastic mechanics | Adam Powell and Yi-Cheung Lok | GPL | |
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Pre- and post-processing frameworks and tools | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| Salome (profile) | Graphical framework for FEA pre- and post-processing with some CAD capabilities, links well with Code-Aster | Several | LGPL | Debian |
| Gmsh (profile) | Graphical FEA CAD tool, mesher, post-processor | Christophe Geuzaine and Jean-Francois Remacle | GPL | Debian |
| OpenCASCADE (profile) | High-level CAD library | Open CASCADE S.A.S. | OCTPL (Discussion) | Debian |
| NETGEN | Automatic 2-D or 3-D mesh generator | Joachim Shoberl | LGPL | Debian |
| enGrid | Automatic 2-D or 3-D mesh generator | GPL | Debian RFP | |
| MeshLab | System for processing and editing unstructured 3D triangular meshes | Paolo Cignoni et al. | GPL | Debian |
| Paraview | Parallel visualization application | Kitware et al. | several | Debian |
| Caret | Visualization tool | Visualization group, Washington University | GPL | Debian |
| FSLView | Visualization tool for volume data geared toward medical MRI | Analysis Group, FMRIB, Oxford, UK | GPL | Debian |
| Illuminator | Parallel visualization library for structured grid data sets | Adam Powell et al. | LGPL | Debian |
| MayaVi and Mayavi2 | Data visualization tools based on VTK | Enthought | BSD | Debian |
| VisIt | Parallel visualization tool | WCI (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories) | BSD | Debian ITP |
| VisTrails | GPL | |||
| Discretizer | GPLv3 | |||
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| BRL-CAD | Mature Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) CAD system used by all three major branches of the US military | U.S. Army Basic Research Laboratories | GPL | Debian RFP |
| VARKON | High-level CAD system | Orebro university Department of Technology CAD group | LGPL | Debian |
| QCad | 2-D general CAD system using the Qt widget toolkit | GPL | Debian | |
| Sweet Home 3D | Interior design CAD software | eTeks | GPL | |
| PythonCAD | 2-D general CAD system written in Python | GPL | Debian | |
| SagCAD | Sagiya Metal Mold Factory, Inc. | GPL | ||
| Sailcut CAD | For designing and visualizing sails | GPL | Debian | |
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Multi-body dynamics | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| MBDyn | Command-line multi-body dynamics software | Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale | GPL | |
| ORSA | Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis | Pasquale Tricarico | GPL | Debian |
Data Analysis | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| Gpiv (profile) | Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) | Gerber van der Graaf | GPL | Debian |
Plumbing & Drain Cleaning | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| Plumber Near Me | Plumbing | Dr. Pipes Plumbing | Proprietary | Dr. Pipes Plumbing |
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) | ||||
| Name | Description | Author | License | Packaging |
| abinit | Density Functional Theory (DFT) for molecules and crystals, including geometry optimization | Xavier Gonze, UCL | GPL | Debian |
| LAMMPS | Parallel molecular dynamics code | GPL | ||
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