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CAMFR

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

CAMFR (CAvity Modelling FRamework) is a fast, flexible, friendly full-vectorial Maxwell solver. Its main focus is on applications in the field of nanophotonics, like wavelength-scale microstructures, lasers and light-emitting diodes. Find CAMFR at: http://camfr.sourceforge.net/

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LaserFOAM

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

Solves the Nonlinear Schrdinger equation using the split-step Fourier method in order to simulate the propagation of an ultrashort laser pulse in photonic crystal fibers. Find LaserFOAM at: http://laserfoam.sourceforge.net/

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ApexKB (formerly Jumper)

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

ApexKB is enterprise web-infrastructure for data virtualization. ApexKB lets you search and share high-value data across remote locations using tag metadata to capture knowledge about data in remote data stores. It collects these meta-tag profiles in a Knowledge base and … Continue reading →

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JPIV Particle Image Velocimetry

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

JPIV is a software package for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The program is open source and platform independent. Find JPIV Particle Image Velocimetry at: http://www.jpiv.vennemann-online.de/

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LOPTI is mathematical optimization open source C++ library (mostly derivative-free)

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

There are three major parts. 1st and main part is solver-driver which either wraps external solver or uses LOPTI native solvers and presents to library user consistent and simple optimization API. 2nd part is collection of solvers. Currently 4 solvers … Continue reading →

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Aciqra

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

Aciqra is an open source virtual planetarium which tracks the locations of planets, the sun and moon along with Earth’s shadow and displays the phases of the moon and planets in realtime. The program also includes several widgets which give … Continue reading →

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xeo

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

xeo is a free (GPL) open project management for nanostructures using Java Find xeo at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xeo

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Quantum Espresso!

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

I just got email from Brandon Wood about an open source project called Quantum Espresso (formerly known as PWSCF), which is a rather extensive open-source project for DFT-based electronic structure calculations. It appears to be a refactoring of some established … Continue reading →

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Quantum-Espresso

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Dan Gezelter

Quantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft). Find Quantum-Espresso at: http://www.quantum-espresso.org

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New Software: Reference Tools, Atomic Physics, and Engineering

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Dan Gezelter

Some new software to point out today: In the Tools section, we have a new link to cb2bib a tool for rapidly extracting unformatted bibliographic references from email alerts, journal web pages, and PDF files. In the Atomic & Molecular … Continue reading →

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