<p>Mathematica. For details take a look at my simulation <a href="http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/preview.html?draft/21067/000006/FourBody3DSimulation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> for gravity and <a href="http://yukterez.ist.org/4kp2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://yukterez.ist.org/4kp2</a> for gravity plus electric charge.</p>

CC BY-SA 4.0
2015-02-18T15:12:15.807Z
2018-07-14T18:09:46.880Z
2018-07-14T18:09:46.880Z
Yukterez
<p><a href="http://mesa.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MESA</a></p>

<p>It is designed specifically for stellar evolution. There are many modules that you can play around with, including binary interaction.</p>

CC BY-SA 4.0
2018-07-15T18:14:56.660Z
2018-07-15T18:14:56.660Z
Kornpob Bhirombhakdi
<p>mikeonly,</p>

<p>I stumbled across PHOEBE code the other day in another response in this forum.  I started looking into it.</p>

<p>"PHOEBE stands for PHysics Of Eclipsing BinariEs. It is a tool for modeling eclipsing binary stars based on photometric, spectroscopic, interferometric and/or polarimetric data." -- abstracted from About Phoebe webpage.</p>

<p>Perhaps this can fulfill your needs.  I've not yet installed and looked at it.
It is developed by a group of professional astronomers from around the world.</p>

<p>Tom Kosvic</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2015-05-20T13:05:13.000Z
2015-05-20T13:05:13.000Z
tckosvic
<p>I use Wolfram Mathematica to produce model of systems, bodies and parameters. There are probably a plethora of math programs which may also.</p>

<p>A good resource are 'programmable notebooks' produced from Mathematica, demonstrations of these notebooks can be found at the <a href="http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">Wolfram Demonstrations Project</a>. The system Wolfram has integrated is a very advanced programmable environment, however from first glance there was nothing available in the demonstrations project, at least nothing simple.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2015-01-24T04:52:33.967Z
2015-01-24T04:52:33.967Z
Ashley James
<p>I would like to define both initial velocities and masses of components so that orbits may be either elliptical of hyperbolic. Is there any software to make such simulation?</p>

<p>Unfortunately, Binary Star Combined Solution Package is out of date and NASA online plotter supports only circular orbits. </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<binary-star><n-body-simulations><software>
What is a possible software for simulating binary star systems?
mikeonly
# What is a possible software for simulating binary star systems?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-12-25)

I would like to define both initial velocities and masses of components so that orbits may be either elliptical of hyperbolic. Is there any software to make such simulation?

Unfortunately, Binary Star Combined Solution Package is out of date and NASA online plotter supports only circular orbits.

Thanks.

**Tags:** binary-star, n-body-simulations, software

---

## 4 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-02-18. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Mathematica. For details take a look at my simulation [here](http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/preview.html?draft/21067/000006/FourBody3DSimulation) for gravity and <http://yukterez.ist.org/4kp2> for gravity plus electric charge.


---

### Answer by username_2 on 2018-07-15. Score: 3

[MESA](http://mesa.sourceforge.net/)

It is designed specifically for stellar evolution. There are many modules that you can play around with, including binary interaction.


---

### Answer by username_3 on 2015-05-20. Score: 2

mikeonly,

I stumbled across PHOEBE code the other day in another response in this forum. I started looking into it.

"PHOEBE stands for PHysics Of Eclipsing BinariEs. It is a tool for modeling eclipsing binary stars based on photometric, spectroscopic, interferometric and/or polarimetric data." -- abstracted from About Phoebe webpage.

Perhaps this can fulfill your needs. I've not yet installed and looked at it.
It is developed by a group of professional astronomers from around the world.

Tom Kosvic


---

### Answer by username_4 on 2015-01-24. Score: 1

I use Wolfram Mathematica to produce model of systems, bodies and parameters. There are probably a plethora of math programs which may also.

A good resource are 'programmable notebooks' produced from Mathematica, demonstrations of these notebooks can be found at the [Wolfram Demonstrations Project](http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/index.html). The system Wolfram has integrated is a very advanced programmable environment, however from first glance there was nothing available in the demonstrations project, at least nothing simple.


---

