Welcome to the code hub of the Forming Worlds Lab, an interdisciplinary and multi-national team of researchers investigating the formation and evolution of rocky exoplanets and terrestrial worlds of the Solar System. This platform hosts a number of open source planetary simulation codes, which we develop and/or substantially contribute to.
All codes listed below are executable stand-alone, are open for collaboration and are under active development for the purpose of scientific research. If you see new changes pushed to one of the repositories that are not yet linked to a journal publication and you want to make use of these, please do reach out to the authors first. If you have any questions or suggestions, please either create a Discussion, an Issue in the respective repository, or reach out via email to contact@formingworlds.space.
PROTEUS (Development Roadmap)
Coupled atmosphere-interior framework to simulate the temporal evolution of rocky planets.
Codes that are either designed from scratch or adapted for integration into PROTEUS:
AGNI
Atmospheric radiative-convective solver.
MORS
Model for the rotation and flux evolution of stars.
SOCRATES
Atmospheric radiative transfer code.
CALLIOPE
Volatile equilibrium outgassing from magma oceans.
SPIDER
Parameterised interior dynamics code for rocky planets with molten and/or solid interiors.
Aragog
Interior dynamics of solid, liquid, and mixed phase rocky mantles.
Zalmoxis
Model to calculate the internal structure of rocky planets and exoplanets.
Obliqua
Poro-visco-elastic solid-liquid tidal heating model
ZEPHYRUS
Atmospheric escape on magma ocean planets.
JANUS
Parameterised convective model of planetary atmospheres.
VULCAN
Photochemical kinetics model for exoplanetary atmospheres.
Codes related to other planetary modeling projects:
i2elvis_planet
Fluid mechanics and thermochemistry of the interior of planetesimals and protoplanets.
Erebus.jl
Hydro-thermo-mechanical-chemical geodynamic numerical code with a focus on thermodynamic reactions in a two-phase model.
THOTH
Model to calculate and analyze the thermal emission and reflection properties of rocky exoplanet surfaces.
