Where to Find Open Source Simulations

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DECC 2050 CalculatorOpens in new window - Energy calculator created by the Department of Energy and Climate Change United Kingdom. It is a user-friendly model that lets you create your own emissions reduction pathway, and see the impact using real scientific data.

Insight MakerOpens in new window FREE, open-source online resource for educators, students, scientists and professionals across a variety of fields who may need the capability to model complex dynamic systems to support hypotheses for their work, research or studies (e.g., STEM, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Health & Medicine, Geopolitics). Best of all, Insight Maker requires no downloads to use it.

NASA Open Source Software

OSPOpens in new window (Open Source Physics) The OSP Collection provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. Computational physics and computer modeling provide students with new ways to understand, describe, explain, and predict physical phenomena. 

OpenSimulatorOpens in new window is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. It also has an optional facility (the HypergridOpens in new window ) to allow users to visit other OpenSimulator installations across the web. 

PhetOpens in new window (Interactive Simulations for Science and Math)

SOFAOpens in new window Simulator Soft Frame Architecture, is an efficient simulation framework dedicated to research in medical simulation and also used to develop new training technologies.