Data and Tools
NREL's computational applications—data, tools, and software—drive advancements across energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, renewable power technologies, and the knowledge base to optimize energy systems.
Our applications aim to solve models of behavior and control of energy carriers. Technologies incorporate material and chemistry theory, inverse design, development of digital twins for mobility, and network systems understanding and control.
Below is a selected list of computational applications. Browse all NREL's data and tools.
AMAR: Adaptive Mesh and Algorithm Refinement Modeling
This multiscale modeling framework allows for active coupling between mesh-based partial differential equation solvers at the continuum level.
Biomass Feedstock Conversion Interface Handling Computational Models
Computational models that accurately represent the flow of complex biomass feedstock.
BuildingsBench: A Large-Scale Dataset of 900K Buildings and Benchmark for Short-Term Load Forecasting
BuildingsBench platform enables researchers studying time series foundation models to benchmark their methods on a challenging load forecasting problem.
BUTTER: An Empirical Deep Learning Experimental Framework
The framework enables researchers to run high volumes of computational experiments, including machine learning experiments, in a highly distributed asynchronous way.
Combustion Simulations for Sustainable Aviation Fuels End Use
These simulations assess how sustainable aviation fuel properties affect performance, fuel economy, and reliability in aircraft engines and aviation gas turbines.
Energy Research and Forecasting Model
The model is a solver for predicting mesoscale and microscale dynamics in the atmosphere.
ExaWind Software Suite
NREL provides an open-source suite of codes that simulate wind turbines and wind farms.
G2Aero Software: Aerodynamic Shape Parametrization Using Separable Shape Tensors
The framework uses matrix manifold to parametrize a manifold of airfoil shapes for wind turbine blade design.
High-Fidelity Simulation Codes for Industrial Decarbonization
Large-scale simulations of industrial sector processes aimed at reducing emissions.
Mesoflow: Mesoscale Modeling Tool for Biomass Pyrolysis and Catalytic Upgrading
Mesoflow is a mesoscale modeling tool for coupled transport and chemistry at the mesoscale for catalysis and pyrolysis applications.
NMACFoam Software for Ultra-High-Pressure Reverse Osmosis Membrane and Module Design and Optimization
The software helps design and optimize membranes and modules for an energy-efficient approach to water purification and desalination.
Pele Software Suite
The software suite simulates and maps how fuel properties affect turbine performance.
PVade: Photovoltaic Aerodynamic Design Engineering Software
The software simulates wind loading, structural deformation, and stability phenomena in solar-tracking photovoltaic systems.
Questaal Software Suite
The software suite of electronic structure programs answers condensed matter theory questions about solid-state structures.
SPADES: Scalable Parallel Discrete Events Solvers
These solvers simulate event-driven complex systems in the renewable energy application space.
Virtual Engineering of Biofuels Software
The software framework allows engineers to quickly explore a wide range of candidate biomass processing techniques.
Wind Turbine Stall Modeling
Stall modeling helps design wind turbines that can survive extreme weather conditions.
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