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24 Best Free and Open Source Linux Physics Tools

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This article focuses on selecting the best open source software for physics and physics education. Hopefully there will be something for interest here for all budding physicists.

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Physics

DualSPHysics – Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics solver

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

DualSPHysics is a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics solver designed for modelling free-surface flow phenomena.

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ESPResSo – molecular dynamics package

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

ESPResSo is a molecular dynamics package designed for simulating and analyzing coarse-grained many-particle systems used in soft-matter research.

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Meep – electromagnetic simulation

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Meep is a software package for electromagnetic simulation using the finite-difference time-domain method.

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WarpX – advanced electromagnetic and electrostatic Particle-In-Cell code

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

WarpX is an advanced electromagnetic and electrostatic Particle-In-Cell code.

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Basilisk – numerical simulation framework

June 16, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Basilisk is a numerical simulation framework for solving partial differential equations on adaptive Cartesian meshes.

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DAMASK – Düsseldorf Advanced Material Simulation Kit

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

DAMASK is a unified multiphysics crystal plasticity simulation package.

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SasView is a SAS analysis application

May 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

SasView is a Small Angle Scattering (SAS) analysis package used to analyze 1D and 2D scattering data.

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OpenChrom – software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OpenChrom is software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy. Data from different systems can be imported and analyzed.

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SU2 – suite for multiphysics simulation and design

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

SU2 is a suite of tools for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDE) and performing PDE constrained optimization.

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Sherpa – Monte Carlo event generator

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Sherpa is a Monte Carlo event generator for the Simulation of High-Energy Reactions of PArticles.

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Herwig – multi-purpose particle physics event generator

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Herwig is a multi-purpose particle physics event generator.

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Rivet – particle-physics MC analysis toolkit

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Rivet is a system for preservation of particle-collider analysis logic, analysis reinterpretation via MC simulations.

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HepMC – event record for High Energy Physics Monte Carlo generators and simulation

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

HepMC3 is a new version of the HepMC event record. It uses shared pointers for in-memory navigation and the POD concept for persistency.

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ROOT – modular scientific software framework

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

ROOT is an object-oriented program and library developed by CERN, aimed at solving the data analysis challenges of high-energy physics.

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OpenFOAM – CFD software

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

OpenFOAM is a free and open source library of C++ routines which facilitate the numerical solution of partial differential equations.

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McStas – neutron ray-trace simulation software

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

McStas is a free and open source software simulator for neutron scattering instruments and experiments written in C.

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Octopus – scientific program aimed at the ab initio virtual experimentation

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Octopus is a free and open source computer package aimed at the simulation of the electron-ion dynamics of finite systems.

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Elmer – multiphysical simulation software

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Elmer is a very mature multiphysical simulation software with development starting in 1995.

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Geant4 – simulation toolkit

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Geant4 (for GEometry ANd Tracking) is a toolkit for “the simulation of the passage of particles through matter,” using Monte Carlo methods.

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