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The only fully opensource software package providing a complete pipeline from medical image data segmentation to patient specific blood flow simulation and analysis.




The SimVascular Supercomputing Gateway provides access to High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters for running simulations using SimVascular CFD solvers. Simulations benefit from the performance levels that only large-scale HPC systems can offer and typically run an order of magnitude faster than on most workstations.








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Users: download installer packages

Developers: visit our source code repository

License Terms

SimVascular components svModel, svMesh, svPre, and svPost are provided under the full BSD license subject to the terms below:

Copyright © 1998-2007 Stanford University, Charles Taylor, Nathan Wilson, Ken Wang. See SimVascular Acknowledgements file for additional contributors to the source code.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The SimVascular solver, including svSolver and svLS, is provided under a modified BSD-license subject to the permissions below:

This software is Copyright © 2014 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. Permission to copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the following three paragraphs appear in all copies.

Permission to make commercial use of this software may be obtained by contacting:

Technology Transfer Office
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0910
University of California
La Jolla, CA 92093-0910
(858) 534-5815
invent@ucsd.edu

This software program and documentation are copyrighted by The Regents of the University of California. The software program and documentation are supplied "as is", without any accompanying services from The Regents. The Regents does not warrant that the operation of the program will be uninterrupted or error-free. The end-user understands that the program was developed for research purposes and is advised not to rely exclusively on the program for any reason.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HAS NO OBLIGATIONS TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.

Licensing terms for external open source packages

ITK: http://www.itk.org/ITK/project/license.html
VTK: http://www.vtk.org/VTK/project/license.html
Tetgen: http://wias-berlin.de/software/tetgen/1.5/agpl-3.0-standalone.html

Commercial components

MeshSim users should contact simmetrix for licensing information.

Additional license information

Please see the additional license information contained in the SimVascular source code.

Online Tutorials

The SimVascular YouTube Channel has a collection of videos on a variety of topics related to the use of the SimVascular suite of software applications.

The SimVascular Tutorial series consists of recent videos demonstrating the complete pipeline from medical image data segmentation to patient specific blood flow simulation and analysis.

Vascular Model Repository

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What is it

The vascular model repository, a sister project of SimVascular, is a library of computational models of normal and diseased human cardiovascular and pulmonary anatomy and input and output boundary conditions for various physiologic states. These models can be used to simulate cardiovascular and pulmonary solid and fluid mechanics and will provide spatially and temporally-resolved benchmark solutions that can be used by academic, government and industry researchers to verify their computational methods. Most models in the repository were created with SimVascular. The SimVascular project provides an open source package for simulation to accompany the data provided in the model repository.
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Upcoming Workshops

Learn about SimVascular by attending one of our workshops

SB3C Post-Conference Computational Workshop, June 23, 2022

Our Team

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Alison Marsden

Bio notes

Alison Marsden is an associate professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of Bioengineering, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering at at Stanford University. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1998, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 2005 working with Prof. Parviz Moin. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in Bioengineering and Pediatric Cardiology from 2005-07 working with Charles Taylor and Jeffrey Feinstein. She was the recipient of an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship, an AHA beginning grant in aid award, a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, an NSF CAREER award, and is a member of an international Leducq Foundation Network of Excellence. She has published over 60 peer reviewed journal papers, and her lab has received funding from the NSF, NIH, and several private foundations. Her work focuses on the development of numerical methods for simulation of cardiovascular blood flow problems, medical device design, application of optimization to large-scale fluid mechanics simulations, and use of engineering tools to impact patient care in cardiovascular surgery and congenital heart disease.

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Shawn Shadden

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Shawn Shadden is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the advancement of theoretical and computational methods to quantify complex fluid flow. He received a BS in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin (2001), and PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology (2006). From 2006-2009 he carried out an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to translate his work in dynamical systems to research on cardiovascular biomechanics at Stanford University. From 2009-2013 he served as an Assistant Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL, before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley.

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Nathan Wilson

Bio notes

Dr. Nathan Wilson has started two medical-related software companies, served as a Principal Investigator on two SBIR research grants, co-authored over thirty peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, and teaches introductory classes in entrepreneurship, business plan development, and technology and science commercialization at UCLA. Nathan has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

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Dave Parker

Bio notes

Dave Parker is the lead software engineer for SimVascular. He received his Ph.D. in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford University. While at the Georgia Institute of Technology he completed his B.S. in Computer Science and did graduate work in Applied Mathematics, concentrating on research in fractals and nonlinear dynamics. Prior to joining Stanford, he worked on various scientific and engineering software projects involving molecular simulation and visualization, analysis of next generation DNA sequencing data, simulating thermo-plastic deformations for 3D metal printing processes, finite element simulations of shock wave propagation in complex materials, and scientific visualization. While in Charles Taylor’s lab he developed software for image-based modeling of the human vasculature for patient-specific computational blood flow simulations.

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Vijay Vedula

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Vijay Vedula is an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University. His expertise is in modeling cardiac biomechanics and leads svFSI solver development for the SimCardio project. His other research interests include modeling fluid flow in and around complex bodies, multiphysics modeling and fluid-structure interaction, numerical methods and high performance computing. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2015. He completed a Masters in Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2009 and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Trichy (India) in 2007.

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Martin Pfaller

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Martin Pfaller is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Pediatrics (Cardiology) at the Stanford School of Medicine. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich with a Ph.D. where he co-founded a group dedicated to the prediction of cardiovascular diseases using simulation methods. His research mission is to make simulations more accurate and more accessible for clinicians with a long-term vision to develop combined physics-based and data-based approaches to enable personalized therapies for the cardiovascular system.

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Fanwei Kong

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Fanwei Kong is a PhD student majoring in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS degree in biomedical engineering.

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