ANUGA
Open Source
Open-source 2D shallow-water modelling in Python from Geoscience Australia — strong for dam break and tsunami.
Hydraulics & River SystemsActive2D Hydraulic ModellingDam Break Analysis
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Coastal & Estuarine Modelling Tools
Where rivers meet the sea, waves, tides and surge take over. This page indexes the open coastal engines — wave, circulation and storm-surge models — most maintained by major labs and free for engineering use.
Delft3D FM
Open Source
Deltares' open flexible-mesh suite for rivers, estuaries and coasts — hydrodynamics to morphology.
Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveCoastal Modelling2D Hydraulic Modelling
EFDC+
Freemium
Open-source 3D hydrodynamics and water quality — the EFDC lineage modernised, with a commercial GUI option.
Water Quality & EnvironmentalActiveWater Quality ModellingCoastal Modelling
NOAA VDatum
Gov-Public
Transform elevations between vertical datums — the essential fix-up for US coastal flood and drainage models.
Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveCoastal ModellingDEM Processing
SFINCS
Open Source
Deltares' reduced-complexity compound flood model — coastal, fluvial and pluvial drivers in one fast solver.
Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveCoastal ModellingFlood Mapping
openTELEMAC
Open Source
EDF's open-source finite-element suite for free-surface flow — 2D/3D rivers, estuaries, waves and sediment.
Hydraulics & River SystemsActive2D Hydraulic ModellingCoastal Modelling