Open Source C Physics Software

A data visualization and processing tool for scanning probe microscopy (SPM, i.e. AFM, STM, MFM, SNOM/NSOM, ...) and profilometry data, useful also for general image and 2D data analysis.

Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. Gpredict can track an unlimited number of satellites and display the data in tables and various graphical view.

Elmer is a finite element software for numerical solution of partial differential equations and multiphysical problems. It includes models of structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, electromagnetics etc. Elmer home is www.csc.fi/elmer

MuJoCo, developed and maintained by Google DeepMind, is a high-performance physics engine designed for simulating complex, articulated systems that interact through contact. It is widely used in research fields such as robotics, biomechanics, computer graphics, animation, and machine learning, where fast and accurate physics simulations are essential. The engine provides a robust C API optimized for real-time computation, making it suitable for scientific research and advanced simulation environments. MuJoCo’s core architecture is performance-tuned and utilizes preallocated data structures created through an XML-based compiler. The platform includes built-in interactive visualization using OpenGL and a native graphical interface for analyzing and testing simulations. Additionally, it offers extensive utility functions for physics computation, Python bindings for developers, and a Unity plug-in to enable integration with game engines and visualization tools.

Gabedit is a Graphical User Interface for FireFly (PC-Gamess), Gamess-US, Gaussian, Molcas, Molpro, MPQC, NWChem, OpenMopac, Orca, PSI4 and Q-Chem computational chemistry packages.

Curve fitting | Data analysis | Plotting | Matrix operations | FFT | Extensible framework | Multiple file formats | Programmable | Open source | Free for everyone NumeRe: Framework for Numerical Computation is a numerical framework written for Microsoft Windows(R) and released under the GNU GPL v3 for solving and visualizing mathematical and physical problems numerically. Keep simple things simple: You want to plot a sine function? Just enter 'plot sin(x)'. You want to load some data? Enter 'load "path/to/your/file"' or drag the file into the terminal. You need to fit a function to the data? Enter 'fit data() -with=YOURFUNCTION(x)' Need assistance? Enter 'help topic' into the terminal or simply press [F1]. Find us on Discord: https://discord.gg/s5tSjwU Follow us on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@numeredevs Visit our page: https://www.numere.org Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/numere We've moved to GitHub: https://github.com/numere-org

FRAME3DD is a program for the static and dynamic structural analysis of two- and three-dimensional frames and trusses with elastic and geometric stiffness.

A free, industrial quality library for simulating articulated rigid body dynamics - for example ground vehicles, legged creatures, and moving objects in VR environments. It's fast, flexible & robust. Built-in collision detection.

Madagascar is a software package for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments. The package mission is to provide a convenient environment for researchers working with digital image and data processing in geophysics and related fields.

MCX is a GPU-accelerated, general-purpose, physically-accurate and feature-rich 3-D light transport simulator. It is one of the fastest simulators because it can use tens of thousands of GPU threads to simulate photons in parallel.

'atlc' is a CAD package used for analysing and desiging electrical transmission lines of arbitrary cross section. Also for the design of directonal couplers. Some parts are CPU intensive, so multiple CPUs are supported.

Wcalc is a tool for the analysis and synthesis of electronic components. Some of the models include coupled microstrip lines, single layer air core solenoid inductors, etc. Wcalc can analyze the electrical parameters based on the physical dimensions a

A graphical interface for solving exterior ballistics problems, based on the excellent GNU exterior ballistics library. This software generates valid 3-DOF solutions to small arms trajectories, including wind and atmospheric corrections.

GridLAB-D is a new power system simulation tool that provides valuable information to users who design and operate electric power transmission and distribution systems, and to utilities that wish to take advantage of the latest smart grid technology. It incorporates advanced modeling techniques with high-performance algorithms to deliver the latest in end-use load modeling technology integrated with three-phase unbalanced power flow, and retail market systems. Historically, the inability to effectively model and evaluate smart grid technologies has been a barrier to adoption; GridLAB-D is designed to address this problem. User documentation can be found at: http://gridlab-d.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Quick_links The source code is available from GitHub. See https://github.com/gridlab-d/gridlab-d. Issue tracking is handled by GitHub. See https://github.com/gridlab-d/gridlab-d/issues.

Towhee is a Monte Carlo molecular simulation code originally designed for the prediction of fluid phase equilibria using atom-based force fields and the Gibbs ensemble with particular attention paid to algorithms addressing molecule conformation sampling.

Simulation of ion beam irradiation

The Ground Station Software Suite projects aims at providing free, useful software tools for ham radio operators. Currently, these projects used to host the Grig communication radio control and Gpredict. The source repositories have been moved over to GitHub.

This project is a protocol translator for the VFG-150 USB controlled Versatile Frequency Generator allowing control through a GPIB-style command language over the network. The language currently supports frequency steps, fast sweeps and gaussian pulses.

I.S.A.A.C.S. Interactive Structure Analysis of Amorphous and Crystalline Systems is a cross-platform software developed to analyze the structural characteristics of three-dimensional models built by computer simulations.

A library of C codes for storing and managing nuclear reaction networks, that is, ensembles of nuclear species and reactions among them.

A C toolkit for computing the statistical mechanics of fermions and bosons.

GXSM -- Gnome X Scanning Microscopy: A multi-channel image and vector-probe data acquisition and visualization system designed for SPM techniques (STM,AFM..), but also SPA-LEED/LEED/LEEM data analysis. A plug-in interface allows any user add-on data-processing and special hardware and instrument support. Latest: NC-AFM and related explorative methods as SQDM can be configured. High-Speed external PAC-PLL hardware option with digital DSP link. Based on several hardware options it supports a commercially available DSP hardware and provided also Open Source Code for all the low level signal processing tasks and instrument controls in a most flexible and adaptable manner. All latest software is available via github.com/pyzahl/Gxsm4 (source code) or as binary for Ubuntu on https://launchpad.net/~totto/+archive/ubuntu/gxsm

XMD is a program for performing molecular dynamic simulations on metals and some ceramics materials at the atomic scale. It models atomic energies and dynamics using user defined pair potentialsl, EAM potentials and some hard coded potentials.

open2300 - reads/writes data from the Lacrosse WS2300 family of weather stations. Includes tools that send data to: logfiles, webpages with graphs, XML file, MySQL, Weather Underground, Citizen Weather. Library of 50+ functions for your own programs (C)

http://loto.sourceforge.net/ hosts 4 projects of free software related to materials science and physics. They are loto, feram, compasses and xtalgrowth.