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An extensive online tutorial with examples and code references.
http://www.amara.com/papers/nbody.html

[open source - Unix] An extendible stellar dynamics toolbox; has various programs to create, integrate, analyze and visualize N-body and SPH-like systems. In addition there are various tools to operate on images, tables and orbits, including FITS files to export/import to/from other astronomical data reduction packages.
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NEMO Stellar Dynamics Toolbox  It has various programs to create, integrate, analyze and visualize N-body and SPH like systems, following the pipe and filter architecture. In addition there are various tools to operate on images, tables and orbits, including FITS files to export/import to/from...
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/

A large list of commercial, public-domain and shareware Computational Fluid Dynamics codes.
http://icemcfd.com/cfd/CFD_codes.html

[open source - multiplatform] Direct N-body algorithms.
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Sverre Aarseth's Institute of Astronomy Homepage  Sverre Aarseth All-Round N-Body Guy, Mountaineer and Wild-Life Enthusiast Home News N-Body Downloads Publications Interests Contact Sverre Welcome to Sverre Aarseth's Home Page! Sverre's web pages are hosted by the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy Original site design by...
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~sverre/

[open source - multiplatform] A guide to a tree code algorithm implementation, used for astronomical N-body simulations.
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Software Distribution  The following software is freely available to all interested parties. However, if you use this software for published research, I would appreciate a brief acknowledgement (and a preprint or reprint Treecode Guide 1.4 improved hierarchical N-body code Treecode Guide 1.3...
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/software.html

[open source - multiplatform] Visualization package to capture and display Gadget N-body simulations.
http://www.geocities.com/capgadget

ORSA is a C++ framework for the development of algorithms and programs oriented to the simulation and analysis of the orbital evolution of bodies in space.
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Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis Website  Visualization of the spin state of asteroid (99942) Apophis Aug 16 2005 ORSA has been used to visualize the perturbation to the spin state of the asteroid (99942) Apophis, previously known as 2004 MN4, during a very close approach to...
http://orsa.sourceforge.net