Useful Links

Simulation Software

• Apros: A system modelling and simulation software for mainly process dynamics simulation; commercial.
• Balas: A system modelling and simulation software for mainly process steady state simulation; commercial.
• Elmer: A finite element method (FEM) based multiphysics modelling and simulation software; open source (GPL).
• OpenModelica: A generic system modelling and simulation software based on Modelica modelling language; open source (strict GPL).
• OpenFOAM: A fully featured, generic control volume based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software; open source (GPL).
• Code_Aster: A finite element method (FEM) based structural analysis modelling and simulation software; open source (GPL).
• Code_Saturne: A control volume method (CVM) based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software; open source (GPL).
• Octave: a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations, mostly compatible with Matlab; open source (GPL).
• Scilab: A scientific software package for numerical computations; open source (CeCILL, Cea Cnrs Inria Logiciel Libre).

Pre-Processing and Mesh Generation

• SALOME: A free software that provides a generic platform for Pre and Post-Processing for numerical simulation. It is based on an open and flexible architecture made of reusable components available as free software; open source (LGPL).
• Gmsh: An automatic 3D finite element grid generator with a built-in CAD engine and post-processor; open source (GPL).
• Netgen: an automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator; open source (LGPL)
• TetGen: a program to generate tetrahedral meshes of any 3D polyhedral domain; free for research and non-commercial uses, for any commercial use a commercial license is required.

Scientific Visualisation Software

• Paraview: A multi-platform data analysis and visualization application based on VTK visualisation library; open source (ParaView License Version 1.2).
• VisIt: A multi-platform data analysis and visualization application based on VTK visualisation library; open source (BSD license).

Eclipse Related

• Eclipse.org: Eclipse project home page.
• Eclipse Corner Articles: An archive of eclipse development tutorials.
• A Comparison of Eclipse Extensions and OSGi Services
• Eclipse SWT widgets:
  • Eclipse SWT FAQ
  • Highly recommended examples for getting to know how SWT works

• Eclipsepedia, Eclipse's own Wiki. Also check out the Eclipsepedia FAQ's
• Using Trac with Eclipse & Mylyn
• Individual source bundle in PDE

• Eclipse conferences:
  • EclipseCon 2007
    • Contributing to Menus with the new API
  • EclipseCon 2008
    • Contributing to Menus

• Eclipse articles:
  • Workbench Selections
  • Eclipse Jobs API

• OSGi articles:
  • OSGi and classpath

Graphics and Geometry Related

• W3C SVG
• Batik SVG Toolkit
• jMonkey Engine
• Open CASCADE
• VTK
• Silk icon collection

MediaWiki Related

• S5 presentation system for Mediawiki

Software Version Control

• Version Control with Subversion - book
• http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/doc/user/svn-best-practices.html