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Software that is useful for relativity research, notably software for numerical simulations and for algebraic calculations.

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• CarpetCode

  http://www.carpetcode.org/
  A mesh refinement driver for the Cactus code; the primary application is the simulation of black hole spacetimes.

• Form Symbolic Manipulation System

  http://www.nikhef.nl/~form/
  A free software package for manipulating tensors (abstract index notation) and other multi-component objects; highly suitable for calculations in general relativity and related theories such as supergravity. Documentation, course material, and possibilities for download.

• GRTensorII

  http://grtensor.org/
  A computer algebra package for performing differential geometry calculations. Demonstrations of the package's applications to general relativity.

• LORENE (Langage Objet pour la RElativite NumeriquE)

  http://www.lorene.obspm.fr/
  Provides a set of C++ classes to solve various problems arising in numerical relativity and other areas of computational astrophysics.

• openGR

  http://wwwrel.ph.utexas.edu/openGR/
  An open framework for large numerical simulations in general relativity.

• Ricci

  http://www.math.washington.edu/~lee/Ricci/
  A Mathematica package for doing tensor calculations in differential geometry and general relativity.

• Riemann Package for Maple

  http://www.cbpf.br/~portugal/Riemann.html
  Package written in Maple for calculating tensor components in General Relativity and performing some abstract tensor manipulation; suitable for calculations in general relativity and for quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Features brief description, download for Maple V and for Maple 6 or higher, and examples.

• The Cactus Code

  http://www.cactuscode.org/
  A modular manageable high-performance 3D tool for Numerical Relativity.

• Whisky

  http://www.whiskycode.org/
  A code to evolve the equations of hydrodynamics in curved spacetime (relativistic numerical hydrodynamics).

 

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