Top Welcoming Open-Source Fortran Repositories
Top welcoming Fortran repositories. Scored by real 90-day external PR merge rates, maintainer review turnaround speed, and first-time contributor success.
Ranked Fortran Repositories
Showing top 50 of 96 ranked repositories
| Rank | Repository | Tier | Score | Merge Rate | Good First Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | OpenRadioss is a powerful, industry-proven finite element solver for dynamic event analysis | S•Elite | 73.7 | 84.4% | - |
| #2 | Fire Dynamics Simulator | B•Solid | 72.4 | 98.2% | - |
| #3 | nasa/cea173 CEA computes the equilibrium composition of mixtures via free-energy minimization, and uses the resulting product concentrations to determine thermodynamic and transport properties. It includes a large database of species with thermodynamic curve-fit data, and can be used for rocket performance, detonation parameters, and shock-wave analysis. | A•Welcoming | 64.0 | 78.9% | - |
| #4 | Main repository for the NREL-supported OpenFAST whole-turbine and FAST.Farm wind farm simulation codes. | A•Welcoming | 63.9 | 76.2% | - |
| #5 | USGS Modular Hydrologic Model | A•Welcoming | 63.6 | 70.6% | - |
| #6 | ElmerCSC/elmerfem1,667 Official git repository of Elmer FEM software | A•Welcoming | 59.8 | 68.2% | - |
| #7 | Exascale multiphase flow solver — 2025 Gordon Bell Prize Finalist | 200T grid points on 43K+ GPUs | A•Welcoming | 59.8 | 70.4% | - |
| #8 | cp2k/cp2k1,190 Quantum chemistry and solid state physics software package | A•Welcoming | 58.9 | 16.7% | 8 |
| #9 | LAPACK development repository | A•Welcoming | 57.5 | 58.6% | - |
| #10 | Phantom Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics code | A•Welcoming | 57.1 | 87.0% | - |
| #11 | M.I.T General Circulation Model master code and documentation repository | A•Welcoming | 57.1 | 60.0% | - |
| #12 | ROCm/aomp246 AOMP is an open source Clang/LLVM based compiler with added support for the OpenMP® API on Radeon™ GPUs. Use this repository for releases, issues, documentation, packaging, and examples. | A•Welcoming | 55.2 | 29.1% | - |
| #13 | /ᐠ. 。.ᐟ\ᵐᵉᵒʷˎˊ˗ | B•Solid | 54.3 | 66.7% | 1 |
| #14 | Energy Exascale Earth System Model source code. NOTE: use "maint" branches for your work. Head of master is not validated. | B•Solid | 52.6 | 46.7% | - |
| #15 | MESAHub/mesa244 Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics | B•Solid | 51.1 | 31.3% | - |
| #16 | Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl | B•Solid | 51.1 | 6.7% | - |
| #17 | Light-weight tight-binding framework | B•Solid | 47.1 | 100.0% | - |
| #18 | UFS Weather Model | B•Solid | 46.5 | 23.8% | - |
| #19 | Open Calphad, thermodynamic calculation code | D•Risky | 29.9 | 0.0% | - |
| #20 | cmbant/CAMB255 Code for Anisotropies in the Microwave Background | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #21 | GEOS-Chem "Science Codebase" repository. Contains GEOS-Chem science routines, run directory generation scripts, and interface code. This repository is used as a submodule within the GCClassic and GCHP wrappers, as well as in other modeling contexts (external ESMs). | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #22 | This repository contains the source files of CalculiX, a three-dimensional Finite Element Program (www.calculix.de). | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #23 | Düsseldorf Advanced Material Simulation Kit (Read-only mirror) | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #24 | A library of modern Fortran modules for nonlinear optimization | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #25 | The Temperature Dependent Effective Potentials (TDEP) code | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #26 | fortran-lang/fpm1,066 Fortran Package Manager (fpm) | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #27 | Semiempirical Extended Tight-Binding Program Package | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #28 | our classic | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #29 | A parallel framework for deep learning | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #30 | trying to collect all useful tutorials for famous C math and linear algebra libraries such as CBLAS, CLAPACK, GSL... | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #31 | Functional programming for modern Fortran | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #32 | DFTB+ general package for performing fast atomistic simulations | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #33 | Fortran 2018 standard examples with broad applications | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #34 | PRIMA is a package for solving general nonlinear optimization problems without using derivatives. It provides the reference implementation for Powell's derivative-free optimization methods, i.e., COBYLA, UOBYQA, NEWUOA, BOBYQA, and LINCOA. PRIMA means Reference Implementation for Powell's methods with Modernization and Amelioration, P for Powell. | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #35 | libAtoms/QUIP molecular dynamics framework: https://libatoms.github.io | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #36 | Fluidity | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #37 | A Modern Fortran JSON API | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #38 | m3g/packmol377 Packmol - Initial configurations for molecular dynamics simulations | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #39 | A data-driven method combining symbolic regression and compressed sensing for accurate & interpretable models. | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #40 | USEPA/CMAQ363 Code for U.S. EPA’s Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) for estimating ozone, particulates, toxics, and deposition of acids and nutrients at neighborhood to global scales. | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #41 | Unstructured Compressible Navier Stokes 3D code (UCNS3D) | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #42 | Collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems. | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #43 | ESCOMP/CTSM352 Community Terrestrial Systems Model (includes the Community Land Model of CESM) | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #44 | CREST - A program for the automated exploration of low-energy molecular chemical space. | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #45 | Fortran and Python examples to accompany the book "Computer Simulation of Liquids" by Michael P. Allen and Dominic J. Tildesley (2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2017). Use the "Code" button, or follow the "Releases" link below. | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #46 | NOAA-EMC/WW3346 WAVEWATCH III | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #47 | nasa/CFL3D345 | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #48 | WannierTools: An open-source software package for novel topological materials. Full documentation: | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #49 | Official repository of the Wannier90 code | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #50 | ADflow is a finite volume RANS solver tailored for gradient-based aerodynamic design optimization. | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
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