Commercial Tools

• ACSL (MGA Software): Simulation of block diagram type systems.
• ADAMS (MSC Software, Inc.): Simulation of 3-dimensional mechanical systems. Many professional users in the automotive industry.
• AMESIM (Imagine): Simulation of fluid power systems and hydraulics.
• ANYLOGIC (XJ Technologies): simulation tool for complex discrete, continuous and hybrid systems based on UML and Java.
• APROS - APMS (VTT Automation; Finntech): Simulation of thermohydraulic systems, especially aimed at power plant simulation (APROS). Paper and pulp mill simulation (APMS).
• AspenTech Process Simulation Software: (AspenTech) Aspentech offers a family of CAE tools for the process industry. Some of that tools are also capable of dynamic process simulation, e.g. SPEEDUP (many professional users in the process industry)
• BATH FP (University of Bath): Simulation of fluid power systems.
• BUILDSIM (Tritera): A general purpose simulation tool, block diagram style. Available for Macintosh and PC.
• DSHPLUS (Fluidon):The program developed particularly for the dynamic calculation of complex fluid-technical systems
• DYMOLA (Dynasim AB): object-oriented modeling of physical systems based on the Modelica language.
• DYNAST (Czech Technical University): General purpose simulation tool, mainly used for mechatronics and hydraulics.
• EASY5 (MSC Software): Simulations of block diagrams. Libraries in several domains available (hydraulic,pneumatic, mechanical, thermal, electrical, digital sub-systems).
• FLOWMASTER2 (Flowmaster International): Simulation of fluid power systems.
• gPROMS (Process Systems Enterprise Ltd.): Stationary and dynamic simulation as well as optimization of chemical processes. Based on similiar ideas as Modelica.
• HYDRO ANALYST (Flotron): A hydraulic system simulation package.
• HYPROTECH - family of tools
(HYSIS - Continuous Processing Industries, HTFS - thermal design and simulation of heat exchangers)
• ITI-SIM (ITI): Mechatronics and Hydraulics Simulation Software.
• MATHMODELICA (MathCore Engineering AB): object-oriented modeling, simulation, integration and visualization of physical systems based on the Modelica language.
• MATRIXx and SystemBuild (National Instruments) MATRIXx is a framework for modeling and simulating complex dynamic systems as well as specifying and testing control/software algorithms.
• SABER (Analogy): A simulator for electrical/electronic and multi-technology circuits and systems
• SIMGAUSS (Additive): Simulation of non-linear differential equations and state-space systems.
• SIMNON (Lund University; SSPA Maritime Consulting): A relativly old, nonlinear simulation program based on block diagrams that was originally developed by Hilding Elmqvist, Lund Institute of Technology.
• SIMPACK (INTEC): Analysis and design of general mechanical systems. Many users in automotive and railway industry (special modules to handle wheel/track contact of trains)
• SIMULINK (The MathWorks): A block-diagram style modelling and simulation tool integrated into the Matlab environment (most widely used block diagram simulator).
• SINDA/FLUINT (Cullimore and Ring Technologies): A generalized fluid/thermal flow simulation tool.
• 20-SIM (Twente University; Controllab Products): A general purpose bond-graph modelling and simulation tool.
• VISSIM (Visual Solutions): "Modeling, simulation and control system design software for end users".

Free, Mostly Academic Tools

• The ASCEND Project (Carnegie Mellon University): Large-scale object-oriented mathematical modeling environment and strongly typed mathematical modeling language. It has primarily been developed and used by Chemical Engineers, but is designed to be domain independent.
• BGSP (Sophia University,Japan)
Bond Graph Simulation Program
• COVERS Visual discrete event modeling and simulation tool. Hierarchical structure diagrams and statecharts are mapped to C++ objects.
• HOPSAN (Linköping University): power-port based tool which uses bi-lateral delay lines to solve the ordinary differential equations of a system
• HyBrSim: A Hybrid Bond Graph Simulator. It is an experimental modeling and simulation environment to establish a formal framework and serves as a precursor to an object-oriented implementation as part of the Modelica modeling language.
• OMOLA/OMSIM (Lund Institute of Technology): An object-oriented modelling and simulation tool. Many of the ideas from OMOLA have influenced the Modelica design.
• OPEN SOURCE MODELICA (Linköping University): An object oriented environment for modeling and simulation based on Modelica language.
• Smile (Technical University of Berlin and GMD FIRST): A prototypical object-oriented, equation-based, generic simulation environment.
• WINSIMU (Tampere University of Technology): Fluid simulation