Theory & Tools

Learn theory or find tools for simulating vehicles

Simulate Vehicles is a resource for learning about vehicle simulation, or to find tools that fulfill your simulation needs, open-source or commercial. Being applicable to both engineering and game development, we strive to answer the questions:

  • How do I simulate a car/airplane/rocket etc.?
  • What tools are available to simulate my type of vehicle or vehicle component?

With ‘simulation’ we mean the mimicking of movement or operation for existing or proposed vehicles. Typical use-cases for vehicle simulation could be:

  • Simulate dynamics of vehicles for validation of control features.
  • Simulation of realistic vehicles in game design.
  • Simulate vehicle component behavior in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE).